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Financial Market Bubbles and Crashes Financial Market Bubbles and Crashes

Harold Vogel

Издател: Cambrigde Press

This book presents what is meant to be a plausible and accessible descriptive theory and empirical approach to the analysis of such financial market conditions. It advances such a framework through application of standard econometric methods to its central idea, which is that financial bubbles reflect urgent short side rationed demand. From this

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An Economist's Protest An Economist's Protest

Milton Friedman

Издател: Thomas Horton & Daughters

The noted Nobel Prize-winning economist, Milton Friedman, writes here on current issues of prevailing concern to every American citizen and taxpayer -- including inflation, its causes, and how to arrest it: monetary policy and the disappointing performance of the Federal Reserve Board: the recessions that continue to plague us: and the constraints

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All the Devils Are Here All the Devils Are Here

Bethany McLean , Joe Nocera

Издател: Portfolio Hardcover

As soon as the financial crisis erupted, the finger-pointing began. Should the blame fall on Wall Street, Main Street, or Pennsylvania Avenue? On greedy traders, misguided regulators, sleazy subprime companies, cowardly legislators, or clueless home buyers? According to Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera, two of America s most acclaimed business

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Colossus Colossus

Niall Ferguson

Издател: Penguin Books

Ferguson's book, though by no means blithely optimistic about the US empire in general or Iraq in particular, does hold out a prospect of success there. He indicates that the vast costs of security and reconstruction will be covered by oil sales. This begs the obvious question: will a supposedly sovereign Iraqi government, after 1 July, really use

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Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital

Carlota Perez

Издател: Edward Elgar Publishing

Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital, now available in paperback, presents a novel interpretation of the good and bad times in the economy, taking a long-term perspective and linking technology and finance in an original and convincing way. Carlota Perez draws upon Schumpeter’s theories of the clustering of innovations to explain why

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The War of the World The War of the World

Niall Ferguson

Издател: Penguin Books

The War of the World, published in 2006, had been ten years in the making and is a comprehensive analysis of the savagery of the 20th century. Ferguson shows how a combination of economic volatility, decaying empires, psychopathic dictators, and racially/ethnically motivated (and institutionalized) violence resulted in the wars, and the genocides

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The Principia The Principia

Isaac Newton

Издател: Snowball Publishing

Newton summarized his discoveries in terrestrial and celestial mechanics in his Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica [mathematical principles of natural philosophy] (1687), one of the greatest milestones in the history of science. In it he showed how his principle of universal gravitation provided an explanation both of falling bodies on

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Natural Experiments of History Natural Experiments of History

Jared Diamond , James A. Robinson

Издател: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

Some central questions in the natural and social sciences can't be answered by controlled laboratory experiments, often considered to be the hallmark of the scientific method. This impossibility holds for any science concerned with the past. In addition, many manipulative experiments, while possible, would be considered immoral or illegal. One has

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Developing the Potential of the Individually Funded Pension Systems Developing the Potential of the Individually Funded Pension Systems

collective

Издател: International Federation of Pension Fund Administrators (FIAP)

On May 6 and 7, 2010 in Vina del Mar, Chile took place the International Seminar Developing the Potential of the Individually Funded Pension Systems. The main purpose of the Seminar organized by FIAP together with the Chilean AFP Assoctiation was to identify means and instruments whereby the pension fund managers can broaden their current efforts

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Basic Economics Basic Economics

Thomas Sowell

Издател: Basic Books

This completely revised and updated third edition of Thomas Sowell's instrumental work includes a new chapter on government finance. Basic Economics is a citizen's guide to economics--for those who want to understand how the economy works but have no interest in jargon or equations. Sowell reveals the general principles behind any kind of

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