Category Archives: Macroeconomics

Top Incomes: A Global Perspective

Posted on February 26, 2010 by singleton

A rapidly growing area of economic research investigates the top of the income distribution using data from income tax records. This volume brings together studies of top incomes for twelve countries from around the world, including China, India, Japan, Argentina … Continue reading →

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Bubbles and Crashes in Experimental Asset Markets (Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems)

Posted on February 25, 2010 by singleton

This book describes a laboratory experiment designed to test the causes and properties of bubbles in financial markets and explores the question whether it is possible to design markets which avoid such bubbles and crashes. In the experiment, subjects were … Continue reading →

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Experiments in Economics: Playing fair with money

Posted on February 26, 2009 by singleton

Are humans fair by nature? Why do we often willingly trust strangers or cooperate with them even if those actions leave us vulnerable to exploitation? Does this natural inclination towards fairness or trust have implications in the market-place? Traditional economic … Continue reading →

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The New Fiscal Sociology: Taxation in Comparative and Historical Perspective

Posted on February 26, 2009 by singleton

The New Fiscal Sociology: Taxation in Comparative and Historical Perspective demonstrates that the study of taxation can illuminate fundamental dynamics of modern societies. The sixteen essays in this collection offer a state-of-the-art survey of the new fiscal sociology that is … Continue reading →

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Fairness in Bargaining and Markets (Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems)

Posted on February 26, 2009 by singleton

This book contributes to behavioral economic research on the central issue of social preferences, focusing on the implications of social fairness norms on the interaction of market participants. The author uses both game-theoretic and experimental methods to analyze the implications … Continue reading →

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Economics and Marijuana: Consumption, Pricing and Legalisation

Posted on February 26, 2009 by singleton

Do marijuana users cut back on consumption when the price rises? To what degree is marijuana consumption related to drinking and tobacco usage? What would happen if marijuana were legalised and taxed in the same way as alcohol and tobacco? … Continue reading →

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Poverty Dynamics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Posted on February 26, 2009 by singleton

This collection of essays provides a state-of-the-art examination of the concepts and methods that can be used to understand poverty dynamics. It does this from an interdisciplinary perspective and includes the work of anthropologists, economists, sociologists, and political scientists. The … Continue reading →

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Worst-Case Scenarios

Posted on February 26, 2009 by singleton

Listen to a short interview with Cass Sunstein Host: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & Crane Nuclear bombs in suitcases, anthrax bacilli in ventilators, tsunamis and meteors, avian flu, scorchingly hot temperatures: nightmares that were once the plot of Hollywood … Continue reading →

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Nonlinear Oligopolies: Stability and Bifurcations

Posted on February 25, 2009 by singleton

The book focuses on the dynamics of nonlinear oligopoly models. It discusses the classical Cournot model with a large variety of demand and cost functions that illustrate the many different types of possible best response functions and shows the existence … Continue reading →

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The Evolution of Macroeconomic Theory and Policy

Posted on February 25, 2009 by singleton

The Great Depression of the 1930s gave birth to a branch of economics that in 1933 Ragnar Frisch christened macroeconomics. Over the decades that followed up to the present, the interactions of economic events, economic policy, and macroeconomic theory have … Continue reading →

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