Ever since Adam Smith, the central teaching of economics has been that free markets provide us with material well-being, as if by an invisible hand. In Phishing for Phools, Nobel Prize–winning economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller deliver a fundamental challenge to this insight, arguing that markets harm as well as help us. As long as there is profit to be made, sellers ...(展开全部)

This book gives information on studies based on sociology and capitalism.

The Economics of Uncertainty and Information may be used in conjunction with Loffont's Fundamentals of Economics in an advanced course in microeconomics. Both texts provide a thorough account of modern thinking on the subject and a wealth of carefully chosen examples and problems.The first four chapters of The Economics of Uncertainty and Information summarize the essential too...(展开全部)

Discover how the most trusted approach to statistics today is Simply Powerful with the latest market-leading text from respected authors Anderson/Sweeney/Williams. STATISTICS FOR BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS, 11e introduces sound statistical methodology within a strong applications setting. The authors clearly demonstrate how statistical results provide insights into business decisio...(展开全部)

詹姆斯麦克拉夫（James T. McClave） 统计学博士。曾在佛罗里达大学从事教学工作20年，教授过统计学的所有课程。后于1977年创建信息技术有限公司（Info Tech, Inc.），以应用统计学的理论来解决现实世界的问题。现任公司总裁兼首席执行官，佛罗里达大学统计学兼职教授。 易丹辉 中国人民大学统计学院教授，中国人民大学统计咨询研究中心主任。长期致力于统计学在各个领域的应用研究，主要面向经济、金融、保险、管理、医疗等领域，研究方向为预测与决策、风险管理与保险、生物医学统计。主持国家自然科学基金项目、国家社会科学基金项目、“十一五”国家科技支撑计划项目、教育部人文社会科学重点研究基地重大项目、企事业单位委托科研项目等。 李扬 中国人民大学统计学院副教授，中国人民大学统计咨询研究中心副主任，国际统计学会推选会员。主要致力于统计模型在生物医学...(展开全部)

Well-heeled American corporations have long had a financial stake in undermining scientific consensus and manufacturing uncertainty. In The Triumph of Doubt, former Obama and Clinton official David Michaels details how corrupt science becomes public policy -- and where it's happening today. Opioids. Concussions. Obesity. Climate Change. America is a country of everyday crises -...(展开全部)

This collection assesses the development of 'Coasean Economics' - those aspects of economic analysis that have evolved out of the ground-breaking work of Ronald Coase. Two major strands of research can be identified here: law and economics and the New Institutional Economics. While both law and economics and the analysis of institutions by no means originated with or evolv...(展开全部)

Why are house prices in many advanced economies rising faster than incomes? Why isn't land and location taught or seen as important in modern economics? What is the relationship between the financial system and land? In this accessible but provocative guide to the economics of land and housing, the authors reveal how many of the key challenges facing modern economies - includin...(展开全部)

From Nobel Prize–winning economist Jean Tirole, a bold new agenda for the role of economics in society When Jean Tirole won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics, he suddenly found himself being stopped in the street by complete strangers and asked to comment on issues of the day, no matter how distant from his own areas of research. His transformation from academic economist to pu...(展开全部)