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Capital and Affects: The Politics of the Language Economy

Marazzi, Christian - The MIT Press

We do little more than state the obvious when, trying to come to terms with the politico-institutional earthquakes traversing our times, we say that language is the key to politics. --from Capital and Affects Communication as work: we have recently experienced a profound transformation in the...

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Specificity and the Macroeconomics of Restructuring

Caballero, Ricardo J. - The MIT Press

The core mechanism that drives economic growth in modern market economies is massive microeconomic restructuring and factor reallocation--the Schumpeterian "creative destruction" by which new technologies replace the old. At the microeconomic level, restructuring is characterized by countless...

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Back to Full Employment

Pollin, Robert - The MIT Press

. Explaining views on full employment in macroeconomic theory from Marx to Keynes to Friedman, Pollin argues that the policy was …

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Dynamic Economics: Quantitative Methods and Applications

Adda, Jerome; Cooper, Russell W. - The MIT Press

In part I the authors first review the formal theory of dynamic optimization; they then present the numerical tools and … optimization programming models. This integration shows that empirical applications actually complement the underlying theory of …

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Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Data

Wooldridge, Jeffrey M - The MIT Press

The second edition of this acclaimed graduate text provides a unified treatment of the analysis of two kinds of data structures used in contemporary econometric research: cross section data and panel data. The book covers both linear and nonlinear models, including models with dynamics and/or...

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Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Data

Wooldridge, Jeffrey M. - The MIT Press

This graduate text provides an intuitive but rigorous treatment of contemporary methods used in microeconometric research. The book makes clear that applied microeconometrics is about the estimation of marginal and treatment effects, and that parametric estimation is simply a means to this end....

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Introduction to Statistical Decision Theory

Pratt, John W.; Raiffa, Howard; Schlaifer, Robert - The MIT Press

, public policy, engineering, and clinical medicine--is here to stay. Introduction to Statistical Decision Theory states the … making under uncertainty. Starting with an extensive account of the foundations of decision theory, the authors develop the … problems. Unlike most introductory texts in statistics, Introduction to Statistical Decision Theory integrates statistical …

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Welfare - Vol. 2: Measuring Social Welfare

Jorgenson, Dale W. - The MIT Press

This volume presents an approach to the evaluation of economic policies through the econometric modeling of aggregate consumer behavior. While the preferences of individual consumers are revealed by their market choices, these preferences can be recovered only by econometric methods, not through...

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Numerical Methods in Economics

Judd, Kenneth L. - The MIT Press

To harness the full power of computer technology, economists need to use a broad range of mathematical techniques. In this book, Kenneth Judd presents techniques from the numerical analysis and applied mathematics literatures and shows how to use them in economic analyses. The book is divided...

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A Guide to Econometrics, 5th Edition

Kennedy, Peter - The MIT Press

A Guide to Econometrics has established itself as a preferred text for teachers and students throughout the world. It provides an overview of the subject and an intuitive feel for its concepts and techniques without the notation and technical detail that characterize most econometrics textbooks....

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