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Cambridge University Press Economic Development and Transition
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Cambridge University Press The Theory of the Firm
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Cambridge University Press The Economics of John Kenneth Galbraith
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Cambridge University Press Advances in Economics and Econometrics Theory and Applications Eighth World Congress Econometric Society Monographs Series Number 35
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Cambridge University Press Advances in Economics and Econometrics Theory and Applications Eighth World Congress Volume 2 Econometric Society Monographs Series Number 36
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Cambridge University Press Rational Herds
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Cambridge University Press Productivity Growth Inflation and Unemployment
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Cambridge University Press Democratic Distributive Justice
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Cambridge University Press Democracy Defended
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Cambridge University Press Getting Rich
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Cambridge University Press The Analytics of Uncertainty and Information Second Edition
Book SynopsisThis second edition, with a greater focus on game theory, attempts to unify recent developments in economic theories of uncertainty and information for students.Trade Review'This is a beautifully clear book on the economics of uncertainty and information. The second edition contains a good deal of valuable new material, such as on the production, transmission, acquisition, and aggregation of information.' Eric Maskin, Harvard University, and Nobel Laureate in EconomicsTable of ContentsPart I: 1. Elements of decision under uncertainty; 2. Risk-bearing: the optimum of the individual; 3. Comparative statics of the risk-bearing optimum; 4. Market equilibrium under uncertainty; Part II: 5. Information and informational decisions; 6. Information and markets; 7. Strategic uncertainty and equilibrium concepts; 8. Informational asymmetry and contract design; 9. Competition and hidden knowledge; 10. Market institutions; 11. Long-run relationships and the credibility of threats and promises; 12. Information aggregation, transmission, and acquisition.
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Cambridge University Press John Locke and the Origins of Private Property
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Cambridge University Press Regulation and Development Federico Caff Lectures
Book SynopsisIn Regulation and Development Jean-Jacques Laffont provides the first theoretical analysis of regulation of public services for developing countries. He shows how the debate between price-cap regulation and cost of service regulation is affected by the characteristics of less developed countries (LDCs) and offers a positive theory of privatization that stresses the role of corruption. He develops a new theory of regulation with limited enforcement capabilities and discusses the delicate issue of access pricing in view of LDC's specificities. In the final chapter he proposes a theory of separation of powers which reveals one of the many vicious circles of underdevelopment made explicit by the economics of information. Based on organization theory and history, and using simple empirical tests wherever possible, Professor Laffont offers a comprehensive evaluation of the different ways to organize the regulatory institutions and opens up a rich new research agenda for development studies.Trade Review'In this impressive manuscript, Jean Jacques Laffont shows why the regulation of infrastructure services is crucial to achieve equitable and sustainable expansion of infrastructure services in the poorest countries of the world. This new book by one of the fathers of the modern theory of regulation offers a huge first step towards a theory of regulation of network industries for developing countries and provides preliminary empirical tests of this theory. It opens a huge new research agenda for academics and helps practitioners improve their ability to provide effective policy advice. It is a required reading for anyone claiming to care for the effectiveness of the delivery of public services in developing countries.' Antonio Estache, Senior Economic Advisor, The World Bank'The weak performance of public utilities and infrastructure in developing countries has been a serious drain on resources, a drag on growth and an obstacle to poverty reduction. The factors behind this weak performance are also those which limit the ability to regulate private monopolies in an effective and fair way. Thus understanding the problems of regulation and development is fundamental to policies shaping growth and poverty reduction. This book, by one of the most distinguished economic theorists of our time, is of great importance in providing a rigorous and thoughtful analysis of these crucial issues, which takes account of the practicalities of policy and delivery in developing countries.' Professor Nicholas H. Stern, FBA 2nd Permanent Secretary, HM Treasury and Head of the UK Government Economic Service'An unusual combination of wide-eyed realism and advance theoretical grasp make this a unique and valuable text.' The Financial Regulator'This book presents the first rigorous and careful analysis of these issues, opening up a huge new research agenda and taking account of the practicalities of economic policy in developing countries. I recommend this book to all advanced graduate students and researchers with an interest in incentive theory and development economics. Is it a must for policymakers that are concerned with the effectiveness of delivering public services in emerging and developing countries. It is only a matter of time before Laffont's book becomes part of the standard toolkit for both theorists and practitioners alike. … his work will endure.' De EconomistTable of ContentsForeword; Introduction; 1. Overview of regulatory issues; 2. The rent extraction-efficiency trade-off; 3. A positive theory of privatization; 4. Enforcement, regulation and development; 5. Access pricing rules for developing countries; 6. Universal service obligations in LCDs; 7. Design of regulatory institutions; 8. Separation of regulatory powers and development; 9. Concluding remarks.
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Cambridge University Press Village Economies
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Cambridge University Press Economic Evolution and Structure
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Cambridge University Press Official Papers of Alfred Marshall
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Cambridge University Press Nonlinear Dynamics
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Cambridge University Press Economic Analysis of Production Price Indexes
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Cambridge University Press Perspectives on Public Choice
Book SynopsisThis five-part volume surveys the main ideas and contributions to the field of public choice.Table of Contents1. Public choice in perspective Dennis C. Mueller; Part I. The Need for and Forms of Cooperation: 2. Economic theories of the state Russell Hardin; 3. Neither markets nor states: linking transformation processes in collective-action arenas Elinor Ostrom and James Walker; 4. The political economy of Federalism Robert P. Inman and Daniel L. Rubinfeld; 5. The public choice of international organizations Bruno S. Frey; 6. Constitutional public choice Dennis C. Mueller; Part II. Voting Rules and Preference Aggregation: 7. Cycling and majority rule James M. Enelow; 8. Majority rule Douglas W. Rae and Eric Schickler; 9. Group choice and individual judgments H. Peyton Young; 10. Some paradoxes of preference aggregation Prasanta K. Pattanaik; 11. Voting and the revelation of preferences for public activities T. Nicolaus Tideman; Part III. Electoral Politics: 12. The spatial analysis of elections and committees: four decades of research Peter C. Ordeshook; 13. Multiparty electoral politics Norman Schofield; 14. Interest groups: money, information and influence David Austen Smith; 15. Logrolling Thomas Stratmann; 16. Political business cycles Martin Paldam; Part IV. Individual Behavior and Collective Action: 17. When is it rational to vote? John H. Aldrich; 18. Voting behavior Morris P. Fiorina; 19. Public Choice Experiments Elizabeth Hoffman; Part V. Public Choice in Action: 20. Modern bureaucratic theory Ronald Wintrobe; 21. The positive theory of public bureaucracy Terry Moe; 22. The political economy of taxation Walter Hettich and Stanley L. Winer; 23. Rent seeking Robert D. Tollison; 24. Endogenous protection: a survey Stephen P. Magee; 25. Why does government's share of national income grow? An assessment of the recent literature on the US experience Cheryl M. Holsey and Thomas Borchering.
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Cambridge University Press New Inequalities
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Cambridge University Press Incomes and the Welfare State
Book SynopsisThe Welfare State is under intense debate by economists, sociologists and political scientists. Here inequality, poverty and the existing system are described. Finally, the author discusses the reformation of British policy in a European perspective. For all those concerned with the future of social security.Table of ContentsPart A. Income Inequality and Poverty in Britain and Europe: 1. What is happening to the distribution of income in the UK?; 2. Income distribution in European countries with L. Rainwater and T. Smeeding; 3. Poverty statistics and progress in Europe; 4. Comparing poverty rates internationally: recent studies in OECD countries; 5. Two nations in early retirement? The case of Britain with H. Sutherland; Part B. Analysis of the Welfare State: 6. Is the Welfare State necessarily a barrier to economic growth?; 7. A national minimum? A history of ambiguity in the determination of benefit scales in Britain; 8. The development of state pensions in the United Kingdom; 9. Income maintenance for the unemployed in Britain and the response to high unemployment; 10. Institutional features of unemployment insurance and the working of the labour market; 11. Social insurance; Part C. Targeting and the Future of Social Security Policy: 12. On targeting and family benefits; 13. The Western experience with social safety nets; 14. Towards a European safety net? 15. Beveridge, the national minimum and its future in a European context; 16. State pensions for today and tomorrow; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Nonlinear Dynamics
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Cambridge University Press The Correspondence of Alfred Marshall Economist Volume 3 The Correspondence of Alfred Marshall Economist 3 Volume Hardback Set
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Cambridge University Press The Correspondence of Alfred Marshall Economist Volume 2 The Correspondence of Alfred Marshall Economist 3 Volume Hardback Set
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Cambridge University Press Economic Evolution and Structure
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Cambridge University Press The Political Economy of Conflict and Appropriation
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Cambridge University Press Von Neumann Morgenstern and the Creation of Game Theory
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Cambridge University Press Walrass Market Models
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Cambridge University Press Advances in Econometrics Sixth World Congress Vol I 23 Econometric Society Monographs Series Number 23
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Cambridge University Press Institutions Behaviour and Economic Theory
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Cambridge University Press The Development of Swedish and Keynesian Macroeconomic Theory and its Impact on Economic Policy
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Cambridge University Press A. W. H. Phillips
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Cambridge University Press Some British Empiricists in the Social Sciences 1650 1900
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Cambridge University Press Egalitarian Perspectives
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Cambridge University Press Institutions in Economics
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Cambridge University Press Economic Theory in Retrospect
Book SynopsisThis book, first published in 1997, is a history of economic thought from Adam Smith to John Maynard Keynes - but it is a history with a difference. Firstly, it is a history of economic theory, not of economic doctrines. Secondly, it includes detailed Reader's Guides to nine of the major texts of economics.Trade Review'... this last edition of his magnum opus - witty, serious; iconoclastic, devout; in its core unchanged, full of new insights, is the best yet. I cannot imagine a scholar's library - or for that matter a student's - without it.' Robert Heilbroner'Economic Theory in Retrospect has, for over three decades, stood out among the essential secondary literature for its thoroughness and depth, scope and scholarship. It is most reassuring, therefore that Blaug's great work will be continuing in a new edition, as a mainstay of serious courses in the history of economics, well into the next century and next millennium.' Terence HutchisonTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Pre-Adamite economics; 2. Adam Smith; 3. Population, diminishing returns and rent; 4. Ricardo's system; 5. Say's Law and classical monetary theory; 6. John Stuart Mill; 7. Marxian economics; 8. The marginal revolution; 9. Marshallian economics: utility and demand; 10. Marshallian economics: cost and supply; 11. Marginal productivity and factor prices; 12. The Austrian theory of capital and interest; 13. General equilibrium and welfare economics; 14. Spatial economics and the classical theory of location; 15. The neoclassical theory of money, interest and prices; 16. Macroeconomics; 17. A methodological postscript.
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Cambridge University Press Economic Inequality and Income Distribution
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Cambridge University Press Critical Essays on Piero Sraffas Legacy in Economics
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Cambridge University Press T. R. Malthus The Unpublished Papers in the Collection of Kanto Gakuen University
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Cambridge University Press Origins of Law and Economics
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Cambridge University Press John Locke and the Origins of Private Property
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Cambridge University Press Mathematical Methods and Models for Economists
Book SynopsisThis book is intended as a textbook for a first-year PhD course in mathematics for economists and as a reference for graduate students in economics. It provides a self-contained, rigorous treatment of most of the concepts and techniques required to follow the standard first-year theory sequence in micro and macroeconomics. The topics covered include an introduction to analysis in metric spaces, differential calculus, comparative statics, convexity, static optimization, dynamical systems and dynamic optimization. The book includes a large number of applications to standard economic models and over two hundred fully worked-out problems.Trade Review'The textbook is highly recommended to graduate students of economics. Furthermore, it provides a useful mathematical reference for researchers in economics.' Roland Fahrion, Zentralblatt MATH'… an extensive introduction into the mathematic needed in the field of economics.' Simulation News EuropeTable of ContentsPart I. Preliminaries: 1. Review of basic concepts; 2. Metric and normed spaces; 3. Vector spaces and linear mappings; 4. Differential calculus; Part II. Statics: 5. Static models and comparative statics; 6. Convex sets and concave functions; 7. Static Optimization; 8. Some applications to microeconomics; Part III. Dynamics: 9. Dynamical systems I: basic concepts and scalar systems; 10. Dynamical systems II: higher dimensions; 11. Dynamical systems III: some applications; 12. An introduction to dynamic optimization; 13. Some applications to dynamic optimization; Appendix; Indexes.
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Cambridge University Press The Foundations of Economic Policy
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Cambridge University Press Theory of Production
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Cambridge University Press Economic Inequality and Income Distribution
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Cambridge University Press The General Theory of Transformational Growth
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Cambridge University Press New Directions in the Economic Theory of the Environment
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Cambridge University Press Institutional Economics Revisited
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