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Klein, Michael W. - The MIT Press

David Fox (Ph.D. Economics, Columbia, Visiting Assistant Professor at Kester College, Knittersville, New York) is having a stressful year. He has a temporary position at a small college in a small town miles from everything except Albany. His students have never read Freakonomics. He thinks he...

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The Economics of Collusion: Cartels and Bidding Rings

Marshall, Robert C.; Marx, Leslie M. - The MIT Press

Explicit collusion is an agreement among competitors to suppress rivalry that relies on interfirm communication and/or transfers. Rivalry between competitors erodes profits; the suppression of rivalry through collusion is one avenue by which firms can enhance profits. Many cartels and bidding...

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Streetlights and Shadows: Searching for the Keys to Adaptive Decision Making

Klein, Gary - The MIT Press

our intuition and when should we rely on logic and statistics? Most of us would probably agree that for important …

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The Craft of Economics: Lessons from the Heckscher-Ohlin Framework

Leamer, Edward E. - The MIT Press

In this spirited and provocative book, Edward Leamer turns an examination of the Heckscher–Ohlin framework for global competition into an opportunity to consider the craft of economics: what economists do, what they should do, and what they shouldn’t do. Claiming “a lifetime relationship...

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Rational Choice

Gilboa, Itzhak - The MIT Press

, probability and statistics, aggregation of preferences, games and equilibria, free markets, and rationality and emotions. Online …

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Reforming U.S. Financial Markets: Reflections Before and Beyond Dodd-Frank

Kroszner, Randall S. - The MIT Press

Over the last few years, the financial sector has experienced its worst crisis since the 1930s. The collapse of major firms, the decline in asset values, the interruption of credit flows, the loss of confidence in firms and credit market instruments, the intervention by governments and central...

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Something for Nothing: A Novel

Klein, Michael W. - The MIT Press

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Intermediate Statistics and Econometrics: A Comparative Approach

Poirier, Dale J. - The MIT Press

The standard introductory texts to mathematical statistics leave the Bayesian approach to be taught later in advanced … topics courses -- giving students the impression that Bayesian statistics provide but a few techniques appropriate in only … in economics, Intermediate Statistics and Econometrics offers a broad perspective, bringing together a great deal of …

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