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To many, Thomas Carlyle's put-down of economics as "the dismal science" is as fitting now as it was 150 years ago. But … Diane Coyle argues that economics today is more soulful than dismal, a more practical and human science than ever before … everyday life, <i>The Soulful Science</i> describes the remarkable creative renaissance in how economics is addressing the most …
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writers teach better than anyone. Cents and Sensibility demonstrates the benefits of a freewheeling dialogue between economics … and the humanities by addressing a wide range of problems drawn from the economics of higher education, the economics of … the family -- The ultimate question : case study 3--why do some countries develop faster than others? : economics, culture …
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A common set of mathematical tools underlies dynamic optimization, dynamic estimation, and filtering. In Recursive Models of Dynamic Linear Economies, Lars Peter Hansen and Thomas Sargent use these tools to create a class of econometrically tractable models of prices and quantities. They present...
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happening in elite U.S. economics Ph.D. programs. By examining these programs, Colander gives a view of cutting-edge economics …--and a glimpse at its likely future. And by comparing economics education today to the findings of the original book, the new … reexamination of graduate education by the profession, and has been essential reading for prospective graduate students. Like its …
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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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economics. The book also identifies the contributions of thinkers who have not previously been thought of as monetary theorists …
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