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)

We need to act five times faster to avoid dangerous climate change. As Greenland melts, Australia burns, and greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, we think we know who the villains oil companies, consumerism, weak political leaders. But what if the real blocks to progress are the ideas and institutions that are supposed to be helping us? Five Times Faster is an inside stor...(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)

This is a plain-English explanation of how we got into the current economic disaster that developed out of the economics and politics of the housing boom and bust. The creative” financing of home mortgages and the even more creative” marketing of financial securities based on American mortgages to countries around the world, are part of the story of how a financial house of car...(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)

"Thought provoking and fresh - this book challenges how we think about economics. Gillian Tett, Financial Times For further information about recent publicity events and media coverage for Rethinking Capitalism please visit http://marianamazzucato.com/rethinking-capitalism/ Western capitalism is in crisis. For decades investment has been falling, living standards have stagnated...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics 但凡思考过20世纪30年代“大萧条”问题的经济学家，大都认为那是一场无妄之灾，而不是无法避免的悲剧。他们认为，假如当年赫伯特•胡佛没有在经济萧条迫在眉睫时还试图保持预算平衡，假如当年美联储没有以牺牲国内经济为代价来维护金本位，假如当年政府官员迅速向境况不妙的银行注资，以平复 1930～1931年间蔓延开来的银行恐慌，那么1929年的股市崩溃将只会引发一场普普通通的、很快被人遗忘的经济衰退。他们还认为，经济学家和决策者已经汲取了教训。真的是这样吗？ 1929年股市大崩盘，拉开20世纪大萧条序幕；1982年债务危机，第三世界国家遭遇危机后的萧条；1991年日本经济泡沫破裂，至今仍在萧条中徘徊;1997年亚洲金融危机爆发，诸多经济体深陷衰退；2007年美国次贷...(展开全部)

A critical examination of economics’s past and future, and how it needs to change, by one of the most eminent political economists of our time The dominant view in economics is that money and government should play only a minor role in economic life. Economic outcomes, it is claimed, are best left to the “invisible hand” of the market. Yet these claims remain staunchly unsettl...(展开全部)

This text progressively develops the mathematical tools students need to perform economic analysis and assumes the student has a knowledge of calculus and intermediate microeconomic skills. There is a careful integration of the mathematics with the presentation of economics, with emphasis on those techniques most widely used by economists. Examples clearly illustrate the crucia...(展开全部)