The Fortune Encyclopedia Of Economics

Author : David R. Henderson
Publisher : Grand Central Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780446516372
Total Pages : 876 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fortune Encyclopedia of Economics written by David R. Henderson and published by Grand Central Pub. This book was released on 1993-01 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays cover basic economic concepts, schools of economic thought, financial markets, and foreign economies

Author : David R. Henderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics written by David R. Henderson and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes: Fortune encyclopedia of economics (first edition) and Concise encyclopedia of economics (second edition).

Author : David R. Henderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780865976658
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics written by David R. Henderson and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains 168 alphabetically arranged essays that provide information about topics related to economics, and includes biographical profiles of nearly one hundred noted economists.

Author : Thomas Riggs
Publisher : Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Econ
ISBN 13 : 9781573027533
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History written by Thomas Riggs and published by Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Econ. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resource added for the Economics ?10-809-195? courses.

Author : Daron Acemoglu
Publisher : Currency
ISBN 13 : 0307719227
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why Nations Fail written by Daron Acemoglu and published by Currency. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine? Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are? Simply, no. None of these factors is either definitive or destiny. Otherwise, how to explain why Botswana has become one of the fastest growing countries in the world, while other African nations, such as Zimbabwe, the Congo, and Sierra Leone, are mired in poverty and violence? Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson conclusively show that it is man-made political and economic institutions that underlie economic success (or lack of it). Korea, to take just one of their fascinating examples, is a remarkably homogeneous nation, yet the people of North Korea are among the poorest on earth while their brothers and sisters in South Korea are among the richest. The south forged a society that created incentives, rewarded innovation, and allowed everyone to participate in economic opportunities. The economic success thus spurred was sustained because the government became accountable and responsive to citizens and the great mass of people. Sadly, the people of the north have endured decades of famine, political repression, and very different economic institutions—with no end in sight. The differences between the Koreas is due to the politics that created these completely different institutional trajectories. Based on fifteen years of original research Acemoglu and Robinson marshall extraordinary historical evidence from the Roman Empire, the Mayan city-states, medieval Venice, the Soviet Union, Latin America, England, Europe, the United States, and Africa to build a new theory of political economy with great relevance for the big questions of today, including: - China has built an authoritarian growth machine. Will it continue to grow at such high speed and overwhelm the West? - Are America’s best days behind it? Are we moving from a virtuous circle in which efforts by elites to aggrandize power are resisted to a vicious one that enriches and empowers a small minority? - What is the most effective way to help move billions of people from the rut of poverty to prosperity? More philanthropy from the wealthy nations of the West? Or learning the hard-won lessons of Acemoglu and Robinson’s breakthrough ideas on the interplay between inclusive political and economic institutions? Why Nations Fail will change the way you look at—and understand—the world.

Author : David Warsh
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393329887
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations: A Story of Economic Discovery written by David Warsh and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2007-05-17 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicling the story of what has come to be called the new growth theory, this text helps to explain dominant first-mover firms like IBM or Microsoft, underscores the value of intellectual property, and provides essential advice to those concerned with the expansion of the economy.

Author : Thomas Robert Malthus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Principles of Political Economy Considered with a View to Their Practical Application written by Thomas Robert Malthus and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malthus has prepared in this work the general rules of political economy. He calls into question some of the reasonings of Ricardo and attempts to defend Adam Smith.

Author : David R. Henderson
Publisher : Chicago Park Press
ISBN 13 : 0976854104
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Great Decisions in Business and Life written by David R. Henderson and published by Chicago Park Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The phrase "work smarter, not harder" has been repeatedly ridiculed in the Dilbert comic strip and elsewhere, not because it is a bad idea, but because it is thrown like a brick lifesaver to drowning employees. To tell someone to work smarter is like telling someone to be happier, healthier, and richer. It's not much help to merely repeat the objective; what people need is a plan for achieving the objective.In Making Great Decisions, we show our readers how to achieve their objectives. We write to help those in business and those in the business of life--i.e., everyone--to work smarter. Our ideas are both simple and powerful. We offer a better way to look at problems so that the solutions are easier to find. We help supplement our readers' clear thinking by summarizing some of the most powerful techniques we have discovered.Have you ever driven through corn country? From a distance, all you see are corn stalks and more corn stalks in a jumbled mess. Then suddenly, when you get closer, your perspective changes, and you can see down the rows and realize that the corn was planted perfectly in straight lines. Your perception of the crop changes from a messy jumble to a clear picture simply because you're in the right spot. This book puts readers in that ideal spot. So many problems seem like hopeless jumbles but then, when you start using the techniques we discuss here, they start to look as straightforward as the straightest line in an Iowa cornfield.What motivated us to write this book is that, over the years, both of us have regularly come across people in organizations--often bright people with MBAs or other graduate degrees--who don't think they have time, energy, or skills to make good decisions. They have many clues but don't know how to put them together. They regularly face situations that they could analyze with some of the tools they learned in their courses, but they don't realize that. We don't hold ourselves apart from this group, and stories of our successes and failures are sprinkled throughout Making Great Decisions in Business and Life.

Author : Brian L. Goff
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sportometrics written by Brian L. Goff and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once studied by economists primarily to analyze antitrust implications of leagues or labor contracts with players, the sports world has now been identified by pathbreaking economists as a model of universal economic behavior. These economists have coined the term sportometrics to describe their two-way vision of sports as a reflection of the economic world and as a model for further study of economic behavior and principles. The essays are thus not merely the economics of sport--the profits and losses of various players, managers, owners, and spectators--but also explorations into the economic and mathematical relationships between athletes' success and their earnings, between the structure of high school athletic competition and the players' later careers in professional sports, and between the length of player contracts and the number of players on the disabled list, to name a few. The authors see in these relationships the individual and institutional behavior of athletes, managers, coaches, and sports associations and connect them to the broader arena of labor markets, commodity cartels, crime, income distribution, individual productivity, and other areas. Contracts, rules, and ability are constraints to the economic players, and their economic behavior is analyzed in terms of choices made within constraints. With these essays, economists and industry specialists will be able to better understand both the dynamics of sports as an industry and the economic behavior of institutions and individuals in general.

Author : Peter Lacy
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137530707
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Waste to Wealth written by Peter Lacy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waste to Wealth proves that 'green' and 'growth' need not be binary alternatives. The book examines five new business models that provide circular growth from deploying sustainable resources to the sharing economy before setting out what business leaders need to do to implement the models successfully.