China has the world’s most rapidly changing large economy, and according to Ted Fishman, it is forcing the world to change along with it. “No country has ever before made a better run at climbing every step of economic development all at once,” he writes, in China, Inc.: How the Rise of the [...]
Editorial Reviews
John Perkins started and stopped writing Confessions of an Economic Hit Man four times over 20 years. He says he was threatened and bribed in an effort to kill the project, but after 9/11 he finally decided to go through with this expose of his former professional life. Perkins, a former chief [...]
Editorial Reviews
China has the world’s most rapidly changing large economy, and according to Ted Fishman, it is forcing the world to change along with it. “No country has ever before made a better run at climbing every step of economic development all at once,” he writes, in China, Inc.: How the Rise of [...]
Editorial Reviews
Review
From the reviews: “The notion of allowing the reader the freedom of choice between the Keynesian and Supply-Sider models for developed economies is fresh and radically different from most conventional macroeconomic texts. In addition, it is an honest approach…given that policymakers…still make policy based [...]
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com Review
China has the world’s most rapidly changing large economy, and according to Ted Fishman, it is forcing the world to change along with it. “No country has ever before made a better run at climbing every step of economic development all at once,” he writes, [...]
Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Research on forecasting methods has made important progress over recent years and these developments are brought together in the Handbook of Economic Forecasting. The handbook covers developments in how forecasts are constructed based on multivariate time-series models, dynamic factor models, nonlinear models and combination methods. [...]
Editorial Reviews
John Kay, Financial Times
"A new book … coins the phrase "imperfect knowledge economics" to describe this world of fundamental uncertainty."
Review
. . . sets out an alternative approach to prediction, in which the forecaster recognizes that his model will [...]
Editorial Reviews
Product Description
International Monetary Economics presents a brief introduction to the major topics of the subject area together with an analytical framework that is designed to facilitate a better understanding of international monetary economics. The text concentrates on concepts and relationships involving exchange rates and balance-of-payments magnitudes; [...]
Editorial Reviews
Product Description
The foreign exchange market is the largest in the world, with an estimated $1.6 trillion average daily turnover. This book sets out to introduce the novice to the practical skills necessary to understand the foreign exchange market today.
A Foreign Exchange Primer [...]
Editorial Reviews
Review
This book is an excellent collection of survey papers in the field of financial intermediation, written by leading researchers in the field. Given its broad coverage of topics and accessible style, it is highly recommended reading for students, teachers and professionals who want to refresh their [...]
Link