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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I-State Lines
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 …
Read More »DisneyWar by James B. Stewart (2006-03-10)
Disneywar: The Battle for the Magic Kingdom by James B. Stewart (2006-03-06)
Creativity and the City: How the Creative Economy is Changing the City (Reflect) (No. 5)
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 …
Read More »A Hole in the Ground with a Liar at the Top: Fraud and Deceit in the Golden Age of American Mining
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 …
Read More »Traders, Guns & Money: Knowns and unknowns in the dazzling world of derivatives by Satyajit Das (2006-05-15)
Marx ve Marksist Sistemin Bitişi
Marx ve Marksist Sistemin Bitisi
Read More »Empire of Debt the Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis
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.
Read More »In Search of the Pangolin – Eco-travel Tales
The Swaps & Financial Derivatives Library: Products, Pricing, Applications and Risk Management, 2nd Edition Revised
Field operations manual for assessing the hydrologic permanence and ecological condition of headwater streams
Seivingu kyapitarizumu.
Basic Principles of Economic Value
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 …
Read More »Basic Principles of Economic Value by Eugen Von Bohm-Bawerk (2005-12-30)
[(Structured Products: Equity, Commodity, Credit and New Markets )] [Author: Satyajit Das] [Oct-2005]
Derivative Products and Pricing: The Das Swaps and Financial Derivatives Library by Das, Satyajit (October 6, 2005) Hardcover
Derivative Products and Pricing: The Das Swaps and Financial Derivatives Library
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.
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