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Reinventing Financial Regulation offers an analysis of the fundamental flaws that plague the current system of financial regulation, one built around ideas of "risk-sensitivity" and "capital adequacy." Author Avinash Persaud argues that while some sensible reforms have been introduced, a fresh...
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Anti–Money Laundering in a Nutshellis a concise, accessible, and practical guide to compliance with anti–money laundering law for financial professionals, corporate investigators, business managers, and all personnel of financial institutions who are required, under penalty of hefty fines,...
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, economics and applied mathematics. It offers a comprehensive introduction to multiobjective optimization, with a primary …
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This volume of essays examines the ways in which magical practices are found in different aspects of contemporary capitalist societies. From contract law to science, by way of finance, business, marketing, advertising, cultural production, and the political economy in general, each chapter...
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This book sets the agenda to turn behavioral economics, which has long been considered a subordinate discipline, into … mainstream economics. Ghisellini and Chang expose the conceptual and empirical inadequacy of conventional economics using … rigorous yet accessible style, they give a comprehensive overview of behavioral economics and of the current state of play in …
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The London School of Economics (LSE) has been and continues to be one of the most important global centres for … economics. With six chapters on themes in LSE economics and 29 chapters on the lives and work of LSE economists, this volume … shows how economics became established at the School, how it produced some of the world’s best-known economists, including …
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This book introduces recent developments in both theoretical and empirical analyses of local public economics. Theories … of those economics as well as empirical analyses have been developed dramatically in various directions in recent years …
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In this work, Rutherford reviews why Adam Smith, Hayek, Mises and others praised economic markets, with a view to understanding, in contrast, historical attacks on markets dating as far back as Aristotle. The market has long been criticized as an inappropriate method of allocation, encouraging...
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principals when these simply do not or cannot apply: "constants" in economics stand in for variables, mathematical equations … ignored. In Dionysian Economics, Ward encourages economists to reintegrate the standard rigor of the scientific method into …. Rather than emphasizing its shortfalls compared to an extremely Apollonian science, such as physics, economics can aspire to …
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edition of The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics includes entries on topical issues including gender and economics, recent … economic crises in the European Union and beyond, health economics and the economics of the Internet. With over 3 …
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