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Hindriks, Jean; Myles, Gareth D. - The MIT Press

but in its balance between public finance and public choice and its combination of theory and relevant empirical evidence …Public economics studies how government taxing and spending activities affect the economy--economic efficiency and the … distribution of income and wealth. This comprehensive text on public economics covers the core topics of market failure and …

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Economics After the Crisis: Objectives and Means

Turner, Adair - The MIT Press

The global economic crisis of 2008-2009 seemed a crisis not just of economic performance but also of the system’s underlying political ideology and economic theory. But a second Great Depression was averted, and the radical shift to New Deal-like economic policies predicted by some never took...

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Trade and Poverty: When the Third World Fell Behind

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - The MIT Press

Today's wide economic gap between the postindustrial countries of the West and the poorer countries of the third world is not new. Fifty years ago, the world economic order--two hundred years in the making--was already characterized by a vast difference in per capita income between rich and poor...

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Financial Modeling

Benninga, Simon - The MIT Press

previous editions, basic and advanced models in the areas of corporate finance, portfolio management, options, and bonds are …

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Open Economy Macroeconomics in Developing Countries

VŽgh, Carlos A. - The MIT Press

international finance increasingly relies, the book teaches the reader how to think in terms of simple models and grasp the … graduate courses in development economics, international finance, and macroeconomics. …

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Something for Nothing: A Novel

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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Inside and Outside Liquidity

Holmström, Bengt - The MIT Press

Tirole offer an original, unified perspective on these questions drawing on insights from modern corporate finance. In a … slight, but important departure from the standard theory of finance, they show how imperfect pledgeability of corporate …

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Banking on Democracy: Financial Markets and Elections in Emerging Countries

Santiso, Javier - The MIT Press

apparent than in emerging markets. In Banking on Democracy, Javier Santiso investigates the links between politics and finance … markets have decoupled politics and finance, in the wake of the 2008Ð2012 financial crisis many developed economies (Europe … and the United States) have experienced a recoupling between finance and politics. …

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The Clash of Generations: Saving Ourselves, Our Kids, and Our Economy

Kotlikoff, Laurence J.; Burns, Scott - The MIT Press

The United States is bankrupt, flat broke. Thanks to accounting that would make Enron blush, America’s insolvency goes far beyond what our leaders are disclosing. The United States is a fiscal basket case, in worse shape than the notoriously bailed-out countries of Greece, Ireland, and others....

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Competitive Strategy: Options and Games

Chevalier-Roignant, Benoit; Trigeorgis, Lenos - The MIT Press

strategy formulation. It synthesizes research in the areas of strategy, economics, and finance in a way that is accessible to …

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