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# Publisher: Princeton University Press (January 2, 2006)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0691120315
# ISBN-13: 978-0691120317
Review
David M. Kreps, Paul E. Holden Professor of Economics, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, and author of "A Course in Microeconomic Theory" (Princeton) : Ariel Rubinstein is one of the most original and provocative theorists of his generation. These notes, coming from his teaching of graduate microeconomics, exhibit his originality and clarity of thought. Students interested in mastering the foundations of microeconomics will benefit from studying these notes in conjunction with one of the more standard texts.
Vincent Crawford, Distinguished Professor of Economics, University of California at San Diego : This book will be a valuable addition to the small collection of high-level texts in microeconomics. It is distinguished by Rubinstein's characteristic skill in choice of topics and exposition, and by his unique perspective on economic theory and game theory. At the same time, it will be accessible to a wide range of students.
Colin F. Camerer, Axline Professor of Business Economics, Caltech, and author of "Behavioral Game Theory" (Princeton/Russell Sage Foundation) : Ariel Rubinstein is one of the most thoughtful economic theorists. His lecture notes clearly distinguish between rationality-based models as useful objects of mathematical study, and using other kinds of math to incorporate psychological limits on rationality in a disciplined way. This two-pronged perspective gives the book a distinctive twist. It will be widely used by students and teachers, and its interesting ideas about bounded rationality and behavior are unique.
Book Description
Lecture Notes in Microeconomic Theory is the first publication of Ariel Rubinstein's lecture notes from the first part of his well-known course in microeconomic theory, which he has taught for fifteen years to first-year graduate students at Tel Aviv, Princeton, and New York universities. The book will be an invaluable supplement to primary textbooks in microeconomic theory. Conveying the style and method of Rubinstein's lectures, it will benefit teachers and research economists as well as students. The book focuses on and provides a critical assessment of models of rational economic agents, and it contains a large number of original problems.
Rubinstein, one of the world's most-respected economics theorists, has made substantial contributions to several fields in economics, particularly game theory. His work is characterized by an unusual combination of deep originality and surprising simplicity. He is probably best known for his contributions to the bargaining problem and, more recently, to bounded rationality.
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Using Options to Buy Stocks: Build Wealth With Little Risk and No Capital
By Dennis Eisen
Publisher: Dearborn Financial Publishing
Number Of Pages: 338
Publication Date: 2000-02
Sales Rank: 342385
ISBN / ASIN: 0793134145
EAN: 9780793134144
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Dearborn Financial Publishing
Studio: Dearborn Financial Publishing
Average Rating: 4.5
Total Reviews: 7
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Author: Helen N. Rothberg, G. Scott Erickson
Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann (September 7, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN: 0750677627
In the New Economy, intelligence will be essential for firms to gain competitive advantagenot just information or knowledge.
Competitive intelligence, or the strategic gathering of knowledge about competitors, climate, trends, new products, has a long and successful history of generating competitive advantage. In this book, Rothberg and Erickson demonstrate how corporations can combine their competitive intelligence gathering with their internal knowledge management gathering into one dynamic system. Using real-world cases from the corporate world, the authors show how the strategic use of this combined system generates measurable competitive advantage.
Topics covered include how be develop your strategy for sharing and gathering knowledge across the value chain, sustainable product development and innovation, manufacturing improvement, CRM and marketing, and developing a corporate-wide global knowledge strategy.
*The first book to show how competitive intelligence practices can add value to knowledge management systems
*Written for practitioners, the book is filled with real examples from the corporate world
*Demonstrates how corporations can use internal and external information gathering strategically to gain competitive advantage
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Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann (September 7, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN: 0750677627
In the New Economy, intelligence will be essential for firms to gain competitive advantagenot just information or knowledge.
Competitive intelligence, or the strategic gathering of knowledge about competitors, climate, trends, new products, has a long and successful history of generating competitive advantage. In this book, Rothberg and Erickson demonstrate how corporations can combine their competitive intelligence gathering with their internal knowledge management gathering into one dynamic system. Using real-world cases from the corporate world, the authors show how the strategic use of this combined system generates measurable competitive advantage.
Topics covered include how be develop your strategy for sharing and gathering knowledge across the value chain, sustainable product development and innovation, manufacturing improvement, CRM and marketing, and developing a corporate-wide global knowledge strategy.
*The first book to show how competitive intelligence practices can add value to knowledge management systems
*Written for practitioners, the book is filled with real examples from the corporate world
*Demonstrates how corporations can use internal and external information gathering strategically to gain competitive advantage
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Author: David A. Reisman
Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing (March 2004)
Language: English
ISBN: 1843761645
Schumpeter was an interdisciplinary political economist who made institutional transformation the centerpiece of his theory of supply and demand. This comprehensive monograph reconstructs and assesses Schumpeter’s contribution to the restless economics of entrepreneurship, disequilibrium and search.
Examining the evidence from all of Schumpeter’s published work, the book fills a significant gap in the literature of economic thought. Partly because Schumpeter was so prolific, partly because he touched on so many inter-related topics, there have been few books that have sought to span the whole of this important author’s influential insights.
This volume will appeal to scholars, students and researchers who are interested in exploring the complexities of Schumpeter’s vision and his intellectual system. It will be entirely accessible to non-evolutionary economists. Historians of economic thought will find this a valuable and novel interpretation of Schumpeter’s work.
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Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing (March 2004)
Language: English
ISBN: 1843761645
Schumpeter was an interdisciplinary political economist who made institutional transformation the centerpiece of his theory of supply and demand. This comprehensive monograph reconstructs and assesses Schumpeter’s contribution to the restless economics of entrepreneurship, disequilibrium and search.
Examining the evidence from all of Schumpeter’s published work, the book fills a significant gap in the literature of economic thought. Partly because Schumpeter was so prolific, partly because he touched on so many inter-related topics, there have been few books that have sought to span the whole of this important author’s influential insights.
This volume will appeal to scholars, students and researchers who are interested in exploring the complexities of Schumpeter’s vision and his intellectual system. It will be entirely accessible to non-evolutionary economists. Historians of economic thought will find this a valuable and novel interpretation of Schumpeter’s work.
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Author: John Foster
Paperback: 416 pages
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing (August 2001)
Language: English
ISBN: 1840645253
Modern evolutionary economics is now nearly two decades old and in this excellent book, a distinguished group of evolutionary economists identify the most important developments and discuss the direction of future research.
By moving away from traditional concerns with the operation of selection mechanisms towards a preoccupation with the manner in which the novelty and variety provide fuel for such mechanisms, the authors identify a key development in the field. Evolutionary economists have been drawn into the modern complexity science literature which attempts to provide an understanding of how and why ‘complex adaptive systems’ engage in processes of self-organization. The goal is to provide an integrated analysis of both selection and self-organization that is uniquely economic in orientation.
After a brief overview of the many key achievements and continuing challenges, the first part of the book deals with theoretical perspectives, discussing institutional change, social constructions, complexity, selection and self-selection and the usefulness of theory. Part two deals with empirical perspectives and includes discussion of replicator dynamics, the measurement of heterogeneity and complexity, and modeling organizations as complex adaptive systems.
This unique book will appeal to evolutionary and industrial economists and policymakers involved with issues of innovation and management scientists.
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Author: Martin Ricketts
Paperback: 616 pages
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing; 3 edition (March 31, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN: 1840645245
To own or not to own? To make or to buy? To franchise or to manage? To contract long or to contract short? To trust or not to trust? To license or not to license? These and other questions are the subject matter of this excellent introduction to the theory of economic organization. This fully updated edition of Martin Ricketts’s 1987 book includes:
• New developments in the property rights theory of the firm
• Further extended treatment of cooperative and mutual forms of enterprise
• Entirely new sections on transaction cost economics and public policy
• New chapters on the economics of privatization and the regulation of ‘natural monopoly’.
In addition, transaction cost, property rights and agency approaches are contrasted, and Austrian and evolutionary criticisms of standard theory are explored. The author applies these theories to a wide range of questions from the choice of piece rates or time rates in contracting to the debate on Anglo-American versus other ‘varieties of capitalism’. Public policy in the fields of regulation and privatization is also considered using the same framework.
Non-specialists will find this book to be an accessible introduction to the main theoretical approaches to economic organization. Students and researchers specializing in the fields of economics and business will find that this third, updated edition of The Economics of Business Enterprise continues to provide stimulating insights suggestive of further research.
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Author: Richard O. Zerbe
Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing (June 30, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN: 1840643013
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Author: Kunibert Raffer, Hans Wolfgang Singer
Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing (October 31, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN: 1840641525
Since the 1940s, development thinking has been the subject of fierce debate and continual evolution. The authors of this book trace the ideas that have driven changing approaches to development, focusing also on the Prebisch-Singer Thesis, which seeks to explain the widening gaps between rich and poor nations, caused by unequal distribution of trade benefits. They discuss both aid during and after the cold war, and the rise and subsequent liberalization crisis of the Asian ‘Tiger Economies’.
The Economic North-South Divide goes on to explore the structural roots of the debt crisis and considers the impact of debt management on North-South economic relations, exposing certain double standards that tilt global markets further against the South. Encouraged by recent successful opposition to neoliberalism, the authors finally propose ideas for a world where people seem to matter.
This book is a welcome addition to the debate and will appeal to anyone interested in economic development and history.
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Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing (October 31, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN: 1840641525
Since the 1940s, development thinking has been the subject of fierce debate and continual evolution. The authors of this book trace the ideas that have driven changing approaches to development, focusing also on the Prebisch-Singer Thesis, which seeks to explain the widening gaps between rich and poor nations, caused by unequal distribution of trade benefits. They discuss both aid during and after the cold war, and the rise and subsequent liberalization crisis of the Asian ‘Tiger Economies’.
The Economic North-South Divide goes on to explore the structural roots of the debt crisis and considers the impact of debt management on North-South economic relations, exposing certain double standards that tilt global markets further against the South. Encouraged by recent successful opposition to neoliberalism, the authors finally propose ideas for a world where people seem to matter.
This book is a welcome addition to the debate and will appeal to anyone interested in economic development and history.
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Author: Paul Davidson
Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing (September 2002)
Language: English
ISBN: 184064740X
Paul Davidson investigates why the 1990s was a decade of financial crises that almost precipitated a global market crash. He explores the reasons why the global economy still struggles with the aftermath of these crises and discusses the possibility that volatile financial markets in the future will have real impacts on whole industries and national economic systems.
The author highlights the central role that domestic and international financial markets play in determining the economic growth rate, unemployment rate and international payments position of capitalist economies. He explains why the primary function of financial markets is to create liquidity and demonstrates that a liquid market cannot be efficient, and an efficient market cannot be liquid. He also proves that preventing liquidity problems from developing in national and international financial markets is the key element in fostering prosperity. Statistical evidence and theoretical analysis are combined to demonstrate why orthodox prescriptions for ‘liberalizing’ labor, product, and capital markets are the wrong policies for promoting a civilized society in the 21st century.
Professional economists, financial reporters, government policy makers, those working in international economic organizations such as the IMF, the World Bank and the WTO, and concerned citizens will all benefit greatly from reading this highly acclaimed book.
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Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing (September 2002)
Language: English
ISBN: 184064740X
Paul Davidson investigates why the 1990s was a decade of financial crises that almost precipitated a global market crash. He explores the reasons why the global economy still struggles with the aftermath of these crises and discusses the possibility that volatile financial markets in the future will have real impacts on whole industries and national economic systems.
The author highlights the central role that domestic and international financial markets play in determining the economic growth rate, unemployment rate and international payments position of capitalist economies. He explains why the primary function of financial markets is to create liquidity and demonstrates that a liquid market cannot be efficient, and an efficient market cannot be liquid. He also proves that preventing liquidity problems from developing in national and international financial markets is the key element in fostering prosperity. Statistical evidence and theoretical analysis are combined to demonstrate why orthodox prescriptions for ‘liberalizing’ labor, product, and capital markets are the wrong policies for promoting a civilized society in the 21st century.
Professional economists, financial reporters, government policy makers, those working in international economic organizations such as the IMF, the World Bank and the WTO, and concerned citizens will all benefit greatly from reading this highly acclaimed book.
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