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Book SynopsisNils Gottfries is a Professor of Economics at Uppsala University, Sweden and former editor of The Scandinavian Journal of Economics. He has published extensively in journals including the QJE, JPE, EJ, EER. Most of his research has been concerned with the microeconomic foundations of macroeconomics, particularly the theory of the supply side: prices, wages, and unemployment. He was a member of the Swedish commission on the EMU. He has been teaching macroeconomics regularly at the intermediate and graduate levels.Trade ReviewNils Gottfries's thoughtful, consistent and lucid exposition breathes fresh air into a macroeconomics textbook. It balances descriptive realism with conceptual coherence judiciously, and its application of principles to the experiences of many countries over many decades is very welcome. * John Driffill, Birkbeck, University of London, UK *This is a great book. It uses a consistent theory throughout, explains it well, and does a tremendous job in confronting theory with data. * Steinar Holden, University of Oslo, Norway *Instead of presenting macroeconomics as separate pieces linked in an ad hoc way, Gottfries presents a consistent approach. This, in addition to the distinctly international approach to economic data and examples, will make the book very attractive to lecturers and to their students. * M.A. (Martin) van Tuijl, Tilburg University, the Netherlands *This is a superb book! It contains a rigorous treatment of the New Keynesian model combined with illustrative examples and interesting policy discussions. Students will find the book well-written and easily accessible. * Fredrik NG Andersson, Lund University, Sweden *This book is an excellent and innovative new textbook for intermediate macroeconomics, where conventional macroeconomics is explained with a deeper emphasis on the role of microfoundations. This allows students to be exposed to modern macroeconomic analysis in a rigorous yet still accessible way. * Gianluigi Vernasca, University of Essex, UK *Table of ContentsIntroduction PART I: THE LONG RUN Production, Prices and the Distribution of Income Interest Rates and Investment Consumption and the Natural Rate of Interest Capital Accumulation and Growth Wage Setting and Unemployment Money and Inflation in the Long Run PART II: THE SHORT RUN The Interest Rate and Production in the Short Run Economic Activity and Inflation in the Short Run PART III: ECONOMIC POLICY Monetary Policy Fiscal Policy PART IV: THE OPEN ECONOMY Exports, Imports, and International Financial Markets The Open Economy in the Long Run The Open Economy in the Short Run Exchange Rate Systems and Monetary Union PART V: BUSINESS CYCLES, POLICYMAKING, FINANCIAL MARKETS Business Cycles Institutions and Economic Policy Financial Markets.

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Book SynopsisThe power of the ever-increasing tools and algorithms for prediction and their paradoxical effects on risk.The Age of Prediction is about two powerful, and symbiotic, trends: the rapid development and use of artificial intelligence and big data to enhance prediction, as well as the often paradoxical effects of these better predictions on our understanding of risk and the ways we live. Beginning with dramatic advances in quantitative investing and precision medicine, this book explores how predictive technology is quietly reshaping our world in fundamental ways, from crime fighting and warfare to monitoring individual health and elections. As prediction grows more robust, it also alters the nature of the accompanying risk, setting up unintended and unexpected consequences. The Age of Prediction details how predictive certainties can bring about complacency or even an increase in risks—genomic analysis might lead to unhealthier lifestyles o

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Book SynopsisHow the global financial services sector has been transformed by artificial intelligence, data science, and blockchain.  Artificial intelligence, big data, blockchain, and other new technologies have upended the global financial services sector, creating opportunities for entrepreneurs and corporate innovators. Venture capitalists have helped to fund this disruption, pouring nearly $500 billion into fintech over the last five years. This book offers global perspectives on technology-fueled transformations in financial services, with contributions from a wide-ranging group of academics, industry professionals, former government officials, and current government advisors. They examine not only the struggles of rich countries to bring the old analog world into the new digital one but also the opportunities for developing countries to “leapfrog” directly into digital. The book offers accessible explanations of blockchain and distrib

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Book SynopsisWhy the United States lags behind other industrialized countries in sharing the benefits of innovation with workers and how we can remedy the problem.The United States has too many low-quality, low-wage jobs. Every country has its share, but those in the United States are especially poorly paid and often without benefits. Meanwhile, overall productivity increases steadily and new technology has transformed large parts of the economy, enhancing the skills and paychecks of higher paid knowledge workers. What’s wrong with this picture? Why have so many workers benefited so little from decades of growth? The Work of the Future shows that technology is neither the problem nor the solution. We can build better jobs if we create institutions that leverage technological innovation and also support workers though long cycles of technological transformation.Building on findings from the multiyear MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future, the book argues that w

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Book SynopsisHow leaders can recast innovation’s toughest trade-offs—efficiency vs. flexibility, consistency vs. change, product vs purpose—as productive tensions.Why is leading innovation in today’s dynamic business environment so distressingly hit-or-miss? More than 90 percent of high-potential ventures don’t reach their projected targets. Surveys show that 80 percent of executives consider innovation crucial to their growth strategy, but only 6 percent are satisfied with their innovation performance. Should leaders aim for Steve Jobs-level genius, shower their projects with resources, or lean in to luck and embrace uncertainty? None of the above, say Christopher Bingham and Rory McDonald. Drawing on cutting-edge research and probing interviews with hundreds of leaders across three continents, in Productive Tensions Bingham and McDonald find that the most effective leaders and successful innovators embrace the tensions that arise fr

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Book SynopsisHow our false narratives about post-racism and meritocracy have been used to condone egregious economic outcomes?and what we can do to fix the system.The Myth That Made Us exposes how false narratives?of a supposedly post-racist nation, of the self-made man, of the primacy of profit- and shareholder value-maximizing for businesses, and of minimal government interference?have been used to excuse gross inequities and to shape and sustain the US economic system that delivers them. Jeff Fuhrer argues that systemic racism continues to produce vastly disparate outcomes and that our brand of capitalism favors doing little to reduce disparities. Evidence from other developed capitalist economies shows it doesn?t have to be that way. We broke this (mean-spirited) economy. We can fix it.Rather than merely laying blame at the feet of both conservatives and liberals for aiding and abetting an unjust system, Fuhrer charts a way forward. He supplements evidence from data with insights from community voices and outlines a system that provides more equal opportunity to accumulate both human and financial capital. His key areas of focus include universal access to high-quality early childhood education; more effective use of our community college system as a pathway to stable employment; restructuring key aspects of the low-wage workplace; providing affordable housing and transit links; supporting people of color by serving as mentors, coaches, and allies; and implementing Baby Bonds and Reparations programs to address the accumulated loss of wealth among Black people due to the legacy of enslavement and institutional discrimination. Fuhrer emphasizes embracing humility, research-based approaches, and community involvement as ways to improve economic opportunity.

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Book SynopsisThe founders of the web-based 37signals counsel downsized prospective entrepreneurs on how to run a business that achieves success while avoiding such common practices as high-pressure sales tactics, workaholism and excessive meetings.

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Book SynopsisTable of Contents1. Business Analytics is Making Decisions 2. Decision Trees 3. Decision-Making and Simulation 4. Probability: Measuring Uncertainty 5. Subjective Probability Distributions 6. Empirical Probability Distributions 7. Theoretical Probability Distributions 8. Simulation Accuracy: Central Limit Theorem and Sampling 9. Simulation Fit and Significance: Chi-Square and ANOVA 10. Regression 11. Forecasting 12. Constrained Linear Optimization

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Book SynopsisEven after the experience of WWII and despite the existence of various institutions such as United Nations to avoid conflict between nations, we have not succeeded in making a world free from war. The Cold War, the Vietnam War, the intervention of the superpowers in local conflicts and the spread of terrorism have made this all too clear. This volume brings together contributions by leading international scholars of various countries and reconstructs how economists have dealt with issues that have been puzzling them for nearly three centuries: Can a war be ''rational''? Does international commerce complement or substitute war? Who are the real winners and losers of wars? How are military expenses to be funded? The book offers a refreshing approach to the subject and how we think about the relations between economics and war. Trade Review"While Marxists assert ubiquity of economic interest behind war motives, Albert O. Hirschman praised the cooling effect of commercial interest over the warlike passion. In any case, war and peace is one of the most significant themes that has motivated generations of economists for their investigation. What is the economic cause of the war, how to pay the war, what is the condition for the peace? Focusing such topics, historians of economic thought of the West and Japan gathered to offer their investigations into the ideas and deeds of economists that not only contributed the tradition of this discipline but also influenced general political orientations then.In addition to the reflections on the Western and modern economists from 17th to 20th Century, this volume contains three chapters on Japanese economists before World War II: on the trend of new liberalism in interwar years, on the extensions of economic research in higher commercial schools, and peculiar view of a prominent economist (Yasuma Takata, called "A. Marshall in Japan" ) on power and race. In all they render a deep understanding of the intellectual atmosphere of Japan in the years flowing into the war that amalgamated liberalism, pragmatism, and all-embracing supra-racism." — Kiichiro Yagi, Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University; President, Setsunan University"The current volume presents selected papers from the fourth joint conference of JSHET and ESHET, i.e. the Japanese and European Societies for the History of Economic Thought. The meeting took place in Otaru, Hokkaido in September 2015 and focused on "War in the history of economic thought: the economists and the question of war". Unfortunately, this is a topical issue not only due to the centennial of WWI but even more so due to an escalation of resurgent nationalism, ethnic, religious, social and trade conflicts on a global level. The book covers a whole bunch of relevant issues, such as the concept of food weapon, how to pay for the war or price controls in wartime economies, analyzed by distinguished Japanese and European historians of economic thought. It comprises essays from (pre) classical economics via the cultural background of Japanese economists before WWII until the lessons drawn by leading modern economists after WWII. The volume is strongly recommended to all social scientists engaging for an international civil society." — Harald Hagemann, Professor Emeritus of Economic Theory, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart"Yukihiro Ikeda and Annalisa Rosselli provide a comprehensive view of how economists have studied war from the seventeenth century to the present, or, in other words, between mercantilism and Kenneth Arrow. […] The choice of authors to be analyzed in this volume is at times surprising; especially if one considers that more relevant economists have been left out (Arthur Cecil Pigou is an example). And yet, in this resides one of the strengths of this volume. In particular, Ikeda and Rosselli and their colleagues show known and less-known analyses of a crucial topic. For this reason alone, their book is definitely a must-read in the literature on war and the history of economic thought." — Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Volume 41, Number 3, September 2019Table of ContentsIntroduction (Yukihiro Ikeda and Annalisa Rosselli)Part 1: Before the two World Wars1. The Food Weapon: Milestones in the History of a Concept (17th-19th centuries) (Alain Clément and Riccardo Soliani)2. Why the Wars? And How to Pay for them? A Comparison between Hume and Smith (Daniel Diatkine)3. Hume and Smith on Morality and War (Shinji Nohara)4. Industrialism and War in the French Social Sciences in Early 19th Century (Philippe Steiner)5. Studying Economics as War Effort: The First Economic Treatise in the Ottoman Empire and its Militaristic Motivations (Deniz T. Kilincoglu)6. Economic Non-intervention and Military Non-intervention in John Stuart Mill’s Thought (Philippe Gillig)Part 2: Japan and World War Two7. New Liberalism in Interwar Japan: A Study of the Magazine The New Liberalism (Simpei Yamamoto)8. Economic Research in National Higher Commercial Schools in Wartime Japan (Tadashi Ohtsuki)9. Yasuma Takata’s Theory on Power and Race (Tsutomu Hashimoto)Part 3: Lessons from the 20th Century World Wars10. How to Avoid War: Federalism in L. Robbins and W. H. Beveridge (Atsushi Komine)11. The Wartime Economy and the Theory of Price Controls (Paolo Paesani and Annalisa Rosselli)12. From Barter to Monetary Economy: Ordoliberal Views on the Post-WWII German Economic Order (Raphaël Fèvre)13. The Transformation of Kenneth Arrow’s Attitude toward War (Nao Saito)Index

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