This 20th edition of the NBER Macroeconomics Annual treats many questions at the cutting edge of macroeconomics that are central to current policy debates. The papers and discussions include an analysis of the differential between American and European unemployment rates, with the authors of the paper taking issue with Edward Prescott’s view that higher European …

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Charles Smith has created an incredibly memorable character: a 19-year-old half-Hispanic Californian named Daz, who sets out with his brooding half-Hawaiian buddy on a long, meandering, road-trip from California to New York. It’s filled with humor, thoughtfulness, restlessness, and surprises as the two friends meet an array of Americans with unusual stories to tell, while …

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Richard Florida, the economist whose The Rise of the Creative Class brought into common usage the terms “creative class” and “creative city,” may be American, but as a contributor to Creativity and the City he inquires how his ideas might function in the laboratory of Dutch policy. Florida has posited that as industrial and service …

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Coal, silver, gold. There is something about the allure of hidden treasure that puts a glint in people’s eyes. By gathering such familiar stories as that of Nevada’s infamous Comstock Lode with a succession of lesser-known scandals, Dan Plazak provides an entertaining and informative volume that delightfully investigates the history of mining frauds in the …

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Marx ve Marksist Sistemin Bitisi

Economic conditions of the United States and its rise towards an epic financial crises by Bill Bonner, President of Agora Inc., and Addison Wiggin, Editorial Director and Publisher of the Daily Reckoning.

It’s a thrilling event when a lost work by a genius comes into print for the first time. Here Eugen von Boehm-Bawerk–Mises’s teacher and a huge figure in the history of thought–explains and argues for the subjective theory of value, the theory of marginal utility, and their relationship to price. His legendary patience and attention …

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Derivative Products & Pricing consists of 4 Parts divided into 16 chapters covering the role and function of derivatives, basic derivative instruments (exchange traded products (futures and options on future contracts) and over-the-counter products (forwards, options and swaps)), the pricing and valuation of derivatives instruments, derivative trading and portfolio management.