Tag: Economics

Free Download Understanding Economics: A work of science fiction by Dan Hicks
English | November 29, 2022 | ISBN: 0645667226 | 225 pages | MOBI | 1.36 Mb
The human economy might be the most complex thing in the known universe. It is comprised of millions or billions of self-directed human beings, their technologies, and institutions, each continuously acting and interacting within an already ridiculously complex natural world. To navigate this complexity, economists, like science fiction writers, must start with what they know and try and fill in the many gaps in their knowledge with calculated guesses, conjecture, and a little bit of fantasy. In fact, it is when we forget how complex the economy is, when we are confident without justification of the impact our changes will have – that’s when we tend to really mess things up.

Free Download The Routledge Handbook of Agricultural Economics by Andrew Schmitz, Gail Cramer
English | 2018 | ISBN: 113865423X, 036773401X | 820 pages | PDF | 10 MB
This Handbook offers an up-to-date collection of research on agricultural economics. Drawing together scholarship from experts at the top of their profession and from around the world, this collection provides new insights into the area of agricultural economics.

Free Download Barbara McPake, Allison Squires, Mahat Agya, "The Economics of Health Professional Education and Careers: Insights from a Literature Review"
English | 2015 | pages: 79 | ISBN: 1464806160 | PDF | 1,0 mb
The formation of health professionals is critical for the health system to function and to achieve its universal health coverage (UHC) goals. This is well recognized by the majority of governments that plan to ensure enough training places and aim to regulate in order to ensure quality. But the importance of market forces is often overlooked, resulting in interventions and regulations that often fail to achieve their intended effects. The Economics of Health Professional Education and Careers aims to inform the design of health professionals’ education policies to better manage health labor market forces toward UHC. It documents what is known about the influence of market forces on the health-professional formation process.

Free Download Arnold Picot, Massimo Florio, Nico Grove, "The Economics of Infrastructure Provisioning: The Changing Role of the State"
English | 2015 | pages: 514 | ISBN: 0262029650 | PDF | 4,1 mb
The complexities of financing, installing, implementing, and regulating public infrastructures, including empirical research, analytical models, and theoretical insights.

Free Download Jun Ma, "The Economics of Air Pollution in China: Achieving Better and Cleaner Growth"
English | 2016 | pages: 306 | ISBN: 0231174942 | PDF | 2,3 mb
Suffocating smog regularly envelops Chinese metropolises from Beijing to Shanghai, clouding the future prospect of China’s growth sustainability. Air pollutants do not discriminate between the rich and the poor, the politician and the "average Joe." They put everyone’s health and economic prosperity at risk, creating future costs that are difficult to calculate. Yet many people, including some in China, are concerned that addressing environmental challenges will jeopardize economic growth.

Free Download Rebecca Kobrin, Adam Teller, "Purchasing Power: The Economics of Modern Jewish History"
English | 2015 | pages: 363 | ISBN: 0812247302 | PDF | 5,2 mb
How has the ability of Jews to amass and wield power, within both Jewish and non-Jewish society, influenced and been influenced by their economic activity? Purchasing Power answers this question by examining the nexus between money and power in modern Jewish history. It does so, in its first section, by presenting a series of case studies of the ways in which the economic choices made by Jewish businessmen could bring them wealth and influence. The second section focuses on transnational Jewish philanthropic and economic networks. The discussions there reveal how the wielding of power by Jewish organizations on the world stage could shape not only Jewish society but also the international arena.

Free Download S. Charusheela, Eiman Zein-Elabdin, "Postcolonialism Meets Economics"
English | 2003 | pages: 299 | ISBN: 041528726X | PDF | 2,2 mb
In the last half century, economics has taken over from anthropology the role of drawing the powerful conceptual worldviews that organize knowledge and inform policy in both domestic and international contexts. Until now however, the colonial roots of economic theory have remained relatively unstudied. This book changes that.

Free Download Ludo Cuyvers, "Neo-Marxism and Post-Keynesian Economics: From Kalecki to Sraffa and Joan Robinson "
English | ISBN: 1032254807 | 2022 | 248 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Piero Sraffa and Joan Robinson, both iconic Cambridge economists, were highly influenced by the economic theory of Karl Marx, and integrated important elements of Marx’s economic system into their theories. This book argues, based on published and unpublished documents, that the work of Sraffa and Robinson can in fact be considered as essentially post-Keynesian neo-Marxist.

Free Download Mario Damill, Martín Rapetti, Guillermo Rozenwurcel, "Macroeconomics and Development: Roberto Frenkel and the Economics of Latin America"
English | 2016 | pages: 428 | ISBN: 0231175086 | PDF | 6,3 mb
Latin American neo-structuralism is a cutting-edge, regionally focused economic theory with broad implications for macroeconomics and development economics. Roberto Frenkel has spent five decades developing the theory’s core arguments and expanding their application throughout the discipline, revolutionizing our understanding of high inflation and hyperinflation, disinflation programs, and the behavior of foreign exchange markets as well as financial and currency crises in emerging economies.

Free Download Michael Polanyi, "Society, Economics, and Philosophy: Selected Papers"
English | 2016 | pages: 404 | ISBN: 1412864038, 1560002786 | PDF | 4,9 mb
Michael Polanyi was a polymath who primarily studied medicine and chemistry. Precisely because of Polanyi’s work in the physical sciences, his writings have a unique dimension not found in other advocates of the market and too infrequently found even in philosophers of science. Society, Economics, and Philosophy represents the full range of his interests outside of his scientific work: economics, politics, society, philosophy of science, religion and positivist obstacles to it, and art.