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Stalking the black swan
Kenneth A. Posner spent close to two decades as a Wall Street analyst, tracking the so-called "specialty finance" sector, which included controversial companies such as Countrywide, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, CIT, and MasterCardmany of which were caught in the subprime mortgage and capital markets...
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The economics of fishing
A comprehensive and rigorous guide to the economic considerations motivating the industry and highlights the environmental challenges facing the sector as global consumption of fish continues to rise.
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The economics of oil and gas
This book examines the economics of the entire value chain of the oil and gas industry, from exploration, development, and production, to transportation, refining, and marketing. At each stage, the key economic costs, considerations, and appropriate business strategies are explored.
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Floating exchange rates at fifty
Assess the evolution of the international monetary system, the dominance of the US dollar, and the role of exchange rate regimes in shaping the world economy.
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Creative industries in syria
Syria is undergoing a stage of transformation, including political and social changes. This unique book focuses on the transformations in creative industries and presents a collection of research papers describing and analyzing this pivotal period, in which their role evolved from producing tangi...
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The global outlook for government debt over the next 25 years
This study addresses a fundamentally new feature of the contemporary world economy: the simultaneous buildup of very large public deficits and debt positions in virtually all of the advanced high-income countries. The recent global financial crisis sharply accelerated this fiscal deterioration, b...
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Ethics in economic thought
This book reformulates the central questions of ethics in economic thought. It reconsiders the purpose of economic activity, the ethical values of entrepreneurs, and the Aristotelian dilemma of differentiating between needs and desires to better understand the rise of consumerism. The book also e...
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Benefits of price convergence
Price divergence is readily apparent to anyone who shops. Travelers from Manchester to London, or from Chicago to Paris, are hit by sticker shock. Products ranging from London Fog raincoats to Viagra are available over the Internet at half their retail store prices. Common experience tells us tha...
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Green capital
Many believe economic growth is incompatible with ecological preservation. Green Capital challenges this argument by shifting our focus away from the scarcity of raw materials and toward the deterioration of the great natural regulatory functions (such as the climate system, the water cycle, and ...
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Analyzing land readjustment
Great effort has been devoted to the precise delineation and assignment of the legal and physical boundaries of private property. Yet, issues of unifying or assembling private property rights for urban redevelopment remain understudied. The contributors to this book search for viable alternatives...
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Sustainable
In Sustainable, a finance-industry veteran offers an insider’s look at the promises, prospects, and perils of ESG investing. Proposing practical and actionable solutions to social and environmental problems, Terrence Keeley provides an incisive vision of the roles business and finance play in bui...
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Confronting inequality
Three International Monetary Fund economists show that the increase in inequality has been a political choice—and explain what policies we should choose instead to achieve a more inclusive economy. Confronting Inequality is a rigorous and empirically rich book that is crucial for a time when many...
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Privatization
The privatization of large state-owned enterprises is one of the most radical policy developments of the last quarter century. Right-wing governments have privatized in an effort to decrease the size of government, while left-wing governments have privatized either to compensate for the failures ...
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Rethinking investment incentives
This collection illustrates the different types and uses of investment initiatives worldwide. By combining economic analysis with development impacts, regulatory issues, and policy options, these essays show how to increase the mobility of capital to better attract, direct, and retain investments...
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The family office
This book provides an insider’s view for anyone looking to understand family offices as well as how to best serve and advise them. Veteran practitioners William I. Woodson and Edward V. Marshall offer a thorough guide to family offices: why wealthy families create them, what they do, and how to m...
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Pandora’s risk
Author of the acclaimed work Iceberg Risk: An Adventure in Portfolio Theory, Kent Osband argues that uncertainty is central rather than marginal to finance. Markets don't trade mainly on changes in risk. They trade on changes in beliefs about risk, and in the process, markets unite, stretch, and ...
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Designing experiences
J. Robert Rossman and Mathew D. Duerden present a comprehensive and accessible introduction to experience design. They synthesize the fundamental theories and methods from multiple disciplines and lay out a process for designing experiences from start to finish.
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Proposition 13
How have California’s local governments coped with the severe revenue restrictions of Prop 13? What effects has the property tax revolution had on urban growth patterns in the state? Has the act produced viable and lasting reform, or was it a tragic mistake? The expert analyses in this ten-year r...
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The power of and
The Power of And offers a new narrative about the nature of business, revealing the focus on responsibility and ethics that unites today’s most influential ideas and companies. R. Edward Freeman, Kirsten E. Martin, and Bidhan L. Parmar detail an emerging business model built on five key concepts.
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Industrial policy and economic transformation in africa
Explores the vital role that industrial policies can play in bringing about a transformation of African economies
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International monetary cooperation
In September 1985, emissaries of the world's five leading industrial nations—the United States, Britain, France, Germany, and Japan—secretly gathered at the Plaza Hotel in New York City and unveiled an unprecedented effort to correct the largest set of current account and exchange rate imbalances...
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The property tax and local autonomy
Some of the nation's leading scholars of government and public finance provide their views on the consequences of a declining property tax base. They show local government officials and others how property tax revenue–or the lack of such revenue–affects local autonomy, decision making, and the ab...
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Market without economy
The 1998 financial crisis in Russia was one of the most dramatic economic breakdowns and symbolized the failure of the transition process as it had been conducted since the end of the Soviet Union. There is no general agreement on the nature of the rouble collapse; a number of contradictory inter...
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