The global financial crisis has made it painfully clear that powerful psychological forces are imperiling the wealth of nations today. From blind faith in ever-rising housing prices to plummeting confidence in capital markets, "animal spirits" are driving financial events world…
Focuses on key questions and presents basic concepts-developing economic analysis step-by-step. In this title, each chapter has been thoroughly revised to reflect the relevant data and critical issues, such as how the rash of foreclosures that continues to plague our economy tod…
by Hubbard, R. Glenn, O'Brien, Anthony Patrick
fromPearson series in economics
Why do banks collapse? Are financial systems more fragile in recent decades? Can policies to fix the banking system do more harm than good? What's the history of banking crises? With dozens of brief, non-technical articles by economists and other researchers, Banking Crises offe…
'The Oxford Handbook of Austrian Economics' provides an overview of the main methodological, analytical, and practical implications of the Austrian school of economics. This intellectual tradition in economics and political economy has a long history that dates back to Carl Meng…
The Austrian School of Economics is an intellectual tradition in economics and political economy dating back to Carl Menger in the late-19th century. Menger stressed the subjective nature of value in the individual decision calculus. Individual choices are indeed made on the mar…
by Coyne, Christopher J., Boettke, Peter J.
fromOxford Handbooks
'The Oxford Handbook of Austrian Economics' provides an overview of the main methodological, analytical, and practical implications of the Austrian school of economics. This intellectual tradition in economics and political economy has a long history that dates back to Carl Meng…
'The Oxford Handbook of Austrian Economics' provides an overview of the main methodological, analytical, and practical implications of the Austrian school of economics. This intellectual tradition in economics and political economy has a long history that dates back to Carl Meng…
4e de couv.: Dans "L'économie des Toambapiks", Laurent Cordonnier utilise le ton et le style de la fable pour montrer avec ironie les effets désastreux que produit la transformation d'une paisible économie agraire imaginaire en une société capitaliste avancée qui, pour être conf…
Phelps explores what makes nations prosper--and why the sources of that prosperity are under threat today. Why did prosperity explode in some nations between the 1820s and 1960s, creating not just unprecedented material wealth but "flourishing"--Meaningful work, self-expression,…
