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  • Lifecycle Events and Their Consequences

    Job Loss, Family Change, and Declines in Health

    In Lifecycle Events and Their Consequences: Job Loss, Family Change, and Declines in Health, editors Kenneth A. Couch, Mary C. Daly, and Julie Zissimopoulos bring together leading scholars to study the impact of unexpected life course events on economic welfare. The contributions in this volume explore how job loss, the onset of health limitations, and changes in household structure can have a ... Read more

    $85.99 USD

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  • When to Rob a Bank

    ...And 131 More Warped Suggestions and Well-Intended Rants

    In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the landmark book Freakonomics comes this curated collection from the most readable economics blog in the universe. It’s the perfect solution for the millions of readers who love all things Freakonomics. Surprising and erudite, eloquent and witty, When to Rob a Bank demonstrates the brilliance that has made the Freakonomics guys an international sensation, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Viral Loop

    From Facebook to Twitter, How Today's Smartest Businesses Grow Themselves

    Here's something you may not know about today's Internet. Simply by designing your product the right way, you can build a flourishing business from scratch. No advertising or marketing budget, no need for a sales force, and venture capitalists will flock to throw money at you.Many of the most successful Web 2.0 companies, including MySpace, YouTube, eBay, and rising stars like Twitter and Flickr, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Microeconomics

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Avinash Dixit ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Microeconomics - individuals' choices of where to live and work, how much to save, what to buy, and firms' decisions about location, hiring, firing, and investment - involves issues that concern us on a daily basis. But when people think about economics, they tend to place importance on the bigger picture - macroeconomics - including issues such as unemployment, inflation, and the competitiveness ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Recruiting, Retaining and Promoting Culturally Different Employees

    The USA and Canada welcomes every year significant numbers of immigrant professionals who have high levels of formal education (Bachelors, Masters and Ph.D.) as well as extensive experience; yet a significant fraction of these immigrants are unemployed or underemployed. The purpose of this book is to help US and Canadian organizations make full use of the significant human capital that immigrants ... Read more

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  • In Their Own Hands

    How Savings Groups Are Revolutionizing Development

    Two and a half billion people worldwide, most of them desperately poor villagers, need a better way to save and to borrow. Even the most innovative banking institutions can’t reach them; savings groups can.In savings groups, members save what they can in a communal pot and loan their growing fund to each other for their short-term needs. Jeffrey Ashe and Kyla Neilan illustrate how these savings ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Benefit-Cost Analysis

    Financial and Economic Appraisal using Spreadsheets

    Benefit-Cost Analysis offers the perfect introduction to benefit–cost analysis. The book closely integrates the theory and practice of benefit–cost analysis using a spreadsheet framework. The spreadsheet model is constructed in a truly original way which contributes to transparency, provides a check on the accuracy of the analysis, and facilitates sensitivity, risk and alternative scenario ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Handbook of Computable General Equilibrium Modeling

    Series Book Volume 1A-1B - Handbook of Computable General Equilibrium Modeling
    Top scholars synthesize and analyze scholarship on this widely used tool of policy analysis in 27 articles, setting forth its accomplishments, difficulties, and means of implementation. Though CGE modeling does not play a prominent role in top U.S. graduate schools, it is employed universally in the development of economic policy. This collection is particularly important because it presents a ... Read more

    $242.99 USD

  • International Health Care Reform

    A Legal, Economic and Political Analysis

    by Colleen Flood ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
    This book analyses the wave of competition-oriented reform by comparing "internal market reform" (proposed in publicly-funded health care systems) with "managed competition reform" (proposed in systems with a mixture of public/private financing) and the role of "managed care" in each of these reform theories. International Health Care Reform clearl ... Read more

    $120.99 USD

  • Handbook of Procurement

    How can organizations ensure that they can get best value for money in their procurement decisions? How can they stimulate innovations from their dedicated suppliers? With contributions from leading academics and professionals, this 2006 handbook offers expert guidance on the fundamental aspects of successful procurement design and management in firms, public administrations, and international ... Read more

    $88.99 USD

  • Theory of Social Choice on Networks

    Preference, Aggregation, and Coordination

    Classical social choice theory relies heavily on the assumption that all individuals have fixed preference orderings. This highly original book presents a new theory of social preferences that explicitly accounts for important social phenomena such as coordination, compromise, negotiation and altruism. Drawing on cybernetics and network theory, it extends classical social choice theory by ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Internationalization of Japanese Firms

    Evidence from Firm-level Data

    Edited by Ryuhei Wakasugi ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book takes a comprehensive look at Japanese firms engaging in export and foreign direct investment (FDI) and develops new methods and data to investigate the internationalization of firms, which is a focus issue in international trade. Using micro-level data, the book provides an introduction to theoretical and statistical analysis of internationalization modes of Japanese firms with ... Read more

    $49.99 USD