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Gender matters in economics—for even with today’s technology, fertility choices, market opportunities, and improved … social norms, economic outcomes for women remain markedly worse than for men. Drawing on insights from feminism …
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Gender matters in economics—for even with today’s technology, fertility choices, market opportunities, and improved … social norms, economic outcomes for women remain markedly worse than for men. Drawing on insights from feminism …
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absent? How can firms from advanced market economies do business in such circumstances? In <I>Lawlessness and Economics …, social networks to disseminate information and norms to impose sanctions, and for-profit enforcement services--have grown up …
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of three levels: moral and immoral behavior, or the behavioral level; moral understandings and norms, or the normative …
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of three levels: moral and immoral behavior, or the behavioral level; moral understandings and norms, or the normative …
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is one of the great challenges of international economics. This book provides a new, comprehensive, and in …-depth examination of the standard theories and latest research in exchange-rate economics. Covering a vast swath of theoretical and …, international finance, and finance, and as a go-to reference for researchers in international economics, Exchange-Rate Dynamics …
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economics, but the entirely new field of scientific inquiry it yielded--game theory--has since been widely used to analyze a …
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If "slavery" is defined broadly to include bonded child labor and forced prostitution, there are upward of 25 million slaves in the world today. Individuals and groups are freeing some slaves by buying them from their enslavers. But slave redemption is as controversial today as it was in...
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Commercial banks are among the oldest and most familiar financial institutions. When they work well, we hardly notice; when they do not, we rail against them. What are the historical forces that have shaped the modern banking system? In Unsettled Account, Richard Grossman takes the first truly...
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Harvard professor Henry Spearman—an ingenious amateur sleuth who uses economics to size up every situation—is sent by …
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