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1) Animal spirits: how human psychology drives the economy, and why it matters for global capitalism
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"George A. Akerlof, Co-Winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics" "Robert J. Shiller, Co-Winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics" "Winner of the 2009 International Book Award, getAbstract" "Co-Winner of the 2010 Silver Medal Book Award in Entrepreneurship, Axiom Business" "Co-Winner of the 2010 Robert Lane Award for the Best Book in Political Psychology, American Political Science Association" "Winner of the 2009 Paul A. Samuelson Award for...
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"Robert J. Shiller, Co-Winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics" "Co-Winner of the 2005 Kulp-Wright Book Award, American Risk and Insurance Association, Inc." "Winner of the 2003 Business Book Award, Financial Times Germany/getAbstract" "Winner of the 2004 Wilmott Book Of The Year Award for General Finance" "Honorable Mention for the 2003 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Economics, Association of American Publishers" Robert J. Shiller...
3) Good Money: Understand Your Choices. Boost Your Financial Wellbeing: 20 Thought-Provoking Lessons
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Using a unique, visual approach, Nathalie Spencer uncovers the science behind how we think about, use and manage money to guide you to a wiser and more enjoyable relationship with your finances. From examining how cashless transactions affect our spending and decoding the principles of why a bargain draws you in, through to exposing what it really means to be an effective forecaster, Good Money reveals how you can be motivated to be better with money...
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"Winner of the 2018 PROSE Award for Excellence in Social Sciences, Association of American Publishers" "Winner of the 2018 PROSE Award for Business, Finance & Management, Association of American Publishers" "Finalist for the 2017 TIAA Paul A. Samuelson Award, TIAA Institute" "Shortlisted for the 2017 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award" "One of the CNBC 13 Best Business Books of 2017" "One of Foreign Affairs Best of Books...
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Laura L. Veldkamp is associate professor of economics at New York University's Stern School of Business.
An authoritative graduate textbook on information choice, an exciting frontier of research in economics and finance
Most theories in economics and finance predict what people will do, given what they know about the world around them. But what do people know about their environments? The study of information choice seeks to answer this question,...
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Yacine Aït-Sahalia is the Otto A. Hack 1903 Professor of Finance and Economics and director of the Bendheim Center for Finance at Princeton University. He is the coeditor of the Handbook of Financial Econometrics. Jean Jacod is professor at the Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu in Paris. His books include Discretization of Processes.
A comprehensive introduction to the statistical and econometric methods for analyzing high-frequency financial...
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Le commissaire San-Antonio est-il un bon professeur d'économie ? On peut en douter…Mais, sous la plume de Sylvain Bersinger, une série de citations choisies au fil des œuvres de San-Antonio se transforme en cours d'économie. Sérieux quant au fond, mais décalé dans le ton!
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A Harvard-trained economist's startling predictions reveal critical challenges in the decades ahead, helping individuals, businesses, and governments to make smarter decisions
As individuals, companies, and countries struggle to recover from the economic crisis, many are narrowly focused on forecasts for the next week, month, or quarter. Yet they should be asking what the global economy will look like in the years to come-where will the long-term...
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Francis X. Diebold is the Paul F. and Warren S. Miller Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania and professor of finance and statistics at the university's Wharton School. Glenn D. Rudebusch is executive vice president and director of economic research at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. They are the coauthors of Business Cycles: Durations, Dynamics, and Forecasting (Princeton).
Understanding the dynamic evolution of the...
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Louis Kaplow is the Finn M. W. Caspersen and Household International Professor of Law and Economics at Harvard, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has published widely on the theory of taxation and public economics.
The Theory of Taxation and Public Economics presents a unified conceptual framework for analyzing taxation--the first to be systematically developed...
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Gordon L. Clark is professor and executive director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford, and the Sir Louis Matheson Distinguished Visiting Professor at Monash University. Adam D. Dixon is lecturer and university research fellow at the University of Bristol and visiting research associate at the University of Oxford. Ashby H. B. Monk is a research director at Stanford University and senior research associate...
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Can Finance Save the World? Regaining Power over Money to Serve the Common Good. Just as Thomas Piketty offered a sweeping critique and progressive reassessment of capitalism, former World Bank Group chief financial officer Bertrand Badré looks at the destructive role finance played in the global economic crisis of 2007–2008 and offers a bold prescription for making it a force for good. Badré says that finance is inherently neither good nor bad....
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Narayana R. Kocherlakota is professor of economics at the University of Minnesota.
Optimal tax design attempts to resolve a well-known trade-off: namely, that high taxes are bad insofar as they discourage people from working, but good to the degree that, by redistributing wealth, they help insure people against productivity shocks. Until recently, however, economic research on this question either ignored people's uncertainty about their future...
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Extrait : "— La racine tudesque rik ou reich, qui a passé dans toutes les langues romanes comme un signe de la conquête, exprimant vaguement une idée de supériorité, de force, de puissance. Los ricos hombres se dit encore en espagnol des nobles de distinction, des grands seigneurs ; et telle est l'acceptation des mots riches hommes dans le français de Jonville. Notre idée moderne de la richesse ne pouvait être conçue par les hommes de race...
16) The End of Theory: Financial Crises, the Failure of Economics, and the Sweep of Human Interaction
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"Selected for Askblog's Books of the year 2017" Richard Bookstaber has overseen risk management at investment banks Morgan Stanley and Salomon Brothers, as well as major hedge funds such as Moore Capital and Bridgewater. He has also held positions at the U.S. Treasury, and is currently at the University of California. He is the author most recently of A Demon of Our Own Design (Wiley).
An in-depth look at how to account for the human complexities...
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According to Bertrand Badré, finance is neither inherently good nor bad. It's just a tool, the most powerful tool on earth. In “Can Finance Save the World?”, he describes innovative approaches and financial tools that can help us address many of the world's biggest problems, ranging from climate change to the eradication of poverty to building much-needed infrastructure. Badré details options for creating positive financial regulation and for...
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This book guides readers through self-assessments and evaluations, including communication and relaxation techniques-all aligned with or made to relate to best practices in fiduciary responsibility.
The Gyroscope-A Personal "Money Wellness" Strategy is the fourth book in a series about the psychology of money by Dr. Christopher Bayer, the Wall Street Psychologist. The book builds on the foundations laid in the previous three books in the series and...
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This book invites readers to consider, for themselves, stories of mass mind-control perpetrated by marketing mavens who utilize (and perhaps manipulate) insights from behavioral psychology to generate rank materialism, manifested in ever-increasing consumption, palatable to the public.
The Causes, Culprits, and Context of Our Money Troubles is the first book in a series about the psychology of money by Dr. Christopher Bayer, the Wall Street Psychologist....
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The book is an exploration of how direct and indirect psychological conditioning eliminates morality from decision making in the world of finance.
The Bottomless Line-Important Lessons They Did Not Teach You in Business School is the second book in a series about the psychology of money by Dr. Christopher A. Bayer, the Wall Street Psychologist. This book builds on the key concepts in the first volume, to draw the reader's attention to the "dark side"...
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