Business & economics / Economics

Horse Of A Different Color: A Tale of Breeding Geniuses, Dominant Females, and the Fastest Derby Winner Since Secretariat

by Muhammad Yunus

Jim Squires's rollicking look at the pomp, arrogance, passion, and avarice that drive both man and horse in "the most exciting two minutes in sports"—the Kentucky Derby

Writing Effectively Super Series

by Institut Institute of Leadership & Mana

With forty well structured and easy to follow topics to choose from, each workbook has a wide range of case studies, questions and activities to meet both an individual or organization's training needs. Whether...

Organisational Environment Super Series

by Institut Institute of Leadership & Mana

With forty well structured and easy to follow topics to choose from, each workbook has a wide range of case studies, questions and activities to meet both an individual or organization's training needs. Whether...

China: Competing in the Global Economy

by Markus Rodlauer

China's economic reforms over the past two decades have brought tremendous economic transformation, rapid growth, and closer integration into the global economy. Real income per capita has increased fivefold,...

Japan's Lost Decade: Policies for Economic Revival

by Tim Callen

Japan’s weak economic performance in the 1990s has had implications not only for its own people, but for the world economy more generally, given Japan’s importance as a trading partner and supplier of capital....

Behavioral Game Theory: Experiments in Strategic Interaction

by Colin F. Camerer

Game theory, the formalized study of strategy, began in the 1940s by asking how emotionless geniuses should play games, but ignored until recently how average people with emotions and limited foresight actually...

Principles of Political Economy

by Wilhelm Roscher

Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher was a German economist from Hanover. He studied at Göttingen, where he became a member of Corps Hannovera, and Berlin, and obtained a professorship at Göttingen in 1844, and...

Theory of the Leisure Class

by Thorstein Veblen

The Theory of the Leisure Class is one of the great works of economics as well as the first detailed critique of consumerism. Veblen argues that economic life is driven not by notions of utility, but by social...

Battling Resistance to Antibiotics and Pesticides: An Economic Approach

by Ramanan Laxminarayan

The increasing resistance of bacteria to antibiotics, and pests to pesticides, threatens to undo some of the most remarkable advances made in public health and agriculture during the past century. Though the...

Governance, Corruption, and Economic Performance

by Sanjeev Gupta

This volume presents 18 recent IMF research studies on the causes and consequences of corruption, as well as how it can most effectively be combated to improve governance, increase economic growth, and reduce...

Building Strong Banks Through Surveillance and Resolution

by Charles Enoch

Since the mid-1990s, economic observers have kept a watchful eye on the financial sector because of its potential to spark economic crises. Banks in particular have come under close scrutiny. Building Strong...

Planning Training and Development Super Series

by Institut Institute of Leadership & Mana

With forty well structured and easy to follow topics to choose from, each workbook has a wide range of case studies, questions and activities to meet both an individual or organization's training needs. Whether...

The Nature of Economies

by Jane Jacobs

From the revered author of the classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities comes a new book that will revolutionize the way we think about the economy.

Starting from the premise that human beings "exist...

Planning and Controlling Work Super Series

by Institut Institute of Leadership & Mana

With forty well structured and easy to follow topics to choose from, each workbook has a wide range of case studies, questions and activities to meet both an individual or organization's training needs. Whether...

Measuring the Non Observed Economy: A Handbook

by Internation International Monetary Fund

Good-quality, comprehensive national accounts are vital for economicpolicymaking and research. Exhaustive coverage is difficult to achieve,however, because some economic activities may be illegal, informal,household...

The Commanding Heights: The Battle Between Government And The Marketplace

by Daniel Yergin & Joseph Stanislaw

The Commanding Heights is about the most powerful political and economic force in the world today -- the epic struggle between government and the marketplace that has, over the last twenty years, turned the...

Civil Service Reform Strengthening World Bank and IMF Collaboration

by Internation International Monetary Fund

Civil service reform is often essential to bring about governanceimprovements that are needed for sustainable poverty reduction.A workshop hosted by the World Bank and the IMF in September 2001provided a forum...

Into the EU: Policy Frameworks in Central Europe

by C. Christou

This book examines the opportunities and challenges involved for five central European applicants-the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, the Slovak Republic, and Slovenia-in joining the European Union. The central...

Macroeconomic Management: Programs and Policies

by Mohsin S. S. Khan

Macroeconomic Management: Programs and Policies edited by Mohsin S. Khan, Saleh M. Nsouli, and Chorng-Huey Wong. 2002. x + 346 pp. ISBN 1-58906-094-6 Since its founding in 1964, the IMF Institute has provided...

Kosovo: Institutions and Policies for Reconstruction and Growth

by Dimitri G. G. Demekas

Kosovo was placed under temporary UN administration in 1999, and a final political settlement remains pending. Since that time, however, the province has developed the instruments and institutions necessary...