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Government regulation is ubiquitous today in rich and middle-income countries--present in areas that range from workplace conditions to food processing to school curricula--although standard economic theories predict that it should be rather uncommon. In this book, Andrei Shleifer argues that...
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but in its balance between public finance and public choice and its combination of theory and relevant empirical evidence …
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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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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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previous editions, basic and advanced models in the areas of corporate finance, portfolio management, options, and bonds are …
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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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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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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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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 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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