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Издател: The World Bank

Demographic trends can have direct implications for labor markets through three primary channels: labor supply, labor productivity, and labor demand (because of shifts in the structure of aggregate demand). This chapter focuses on the first two. The conventional wisdom is that aging societies will face difficult economic and social challenges

Richard H. Timberlake

Издател: Cambridge University Press

This book reviews nine Supreme Court cases and decisions that dealt with monetary laws and gives a summary history of monetary events and policies as they were affected by the Court's decisions. Several cases and decisions had notable consequences on the monetary history of the United States, some of which were blatant misjudgments stimulated by

Christopfer Coyne & Rachel Coyne

Издател: The Institute of Economic Affairs

This book demonstrated why economists do not like price controls and shows why they are widely regarded as being amongst the most damaging political interventions in markets. The autors analyse, in very readable fashion, the damage they cause. Crucially, the authors also explain why, despite universal criticism from economists, price controls are

Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner

Издател: Penguin Books

In the summer of 2003, The New York Times Magazine sent Stephen J. Dubner, an author and journalist, to write a profile of Steven D. Levitt, a heralded young economist at the University of Chicago. Levitt was not remotely interested in the things that interest most economists. Instead, he studied the riddles of everyday life--from cheating to

Michael Lewis

Издател: W.W. Norton & Company. Inc.

Billy Beane, general manager of MLB's Oakland A's and protagonist of Michael Lewis's Moneyball, had a problem: how to win in the Major Leagues with a budget that's smaller than that of nearly every other team. Conventional wisdom long held that big name, highly athletic hitters and young pitchers with rocket arms were the ticket to success. But