Why Economists Tend To Oppose Gun Control Laws
Consider instead, though, the news we see every day from Iraq and Afghanistan. On the day this was written, a moving car bomb killed 19 and wounded 35 in a restaurant. Meanwhile, a parked car bomb killed several more. That is the sort of visible ... [... more]
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Search Ad Auction Models Flawed, Economists Say
"Position one is not always the optimal position to maximize search ROI. This is true in cases where incremental return from position one, such as traffic or sales, does not justify incremental investment," Andrew Levasseur, senior search ... [... more]
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Mises's Favorite Anglo-American Economists
Mises adopted a second methodological innovation developed by Clark which was closely related to the ERE. This Mises called "the imaginary construction of functional distribution." In this construct income earners were precisely defined and ... [... more]
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Prohibition And The Economists
Fisher's estimate was based on uncontrolled experiments on the effect of alcohol on industrial efficiency. These experiments were made on one to five individuals who took strong doses of alcohol on an empty stomach before beginning work. These ... [... more]
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The Games Economists Play
Without dwelling too long on the philosophical issues involved-the interested reader should consult Gardner's book-let me report that the mathematicians are generally agreed that the lawyer's argument, though initially compelling, is nonetheless ... [... more]
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The Classical Economists On Gold
Mill did not come exactly to RothbardaEURs insight that "the natural tendency of the state is inflation," but at least he made it clear that governments were those who first seized the opportunity to finance themselves through paper money, ... [... more]
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Adam Smith's Daughters: Eight Prominent Women Economists ...
 This new and expanded edition of a classic work draws our attention to the often neglected role women have played in the development of economics. The work and intellectual history of eight prominent women economists of the eighteenth to twentieth ... [... more]
$110.00
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Lost Prophets: An Insider's History of the Modern Economists
Alfred L. Malabre, Jr., economics editor for The Wall Street Journal, takes the reader on an adventure--from the Mt. Washington Hotel at Bretton Woods to the Michael One Restaurant in downtown Manhattan--to meet the economists whose ideas have had a ... [... more]
$19.95
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Economics, Economists and Expectations
The concept of rational expectations has played a hugely important role in economics over the years. Dealing with the origins and development of modern approaches to expectations in micro and macroeconomics, this book makes use of primary sources and ... [... more]
$160.00
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EconoPower: How a New Generation of Economists is ...
The power of economic thinking can be explained by seven core principles -- accountability, cost-benefit analysis, competition, choice, incentives, investment, and welfare. By understanding and incorporating these principles, better decisions will be ... [... more]
$24.95
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Mathematical Methods and Models for Economists
This book is intended as a textbook for a first-year Ph. D. course in mathematics for economists and as a reference for graduate students in economics. It provides a self-contained, rigorous treatment of most of the concepts and techniques required to ... [... more]
$58.00
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Socializing Security: Progressive-Era Economists and the ...
Socializing Security examines the early movement for worker-security legislation in the United States. It focuses on a group of academic economists who became leading proponents of social insurance and protective labor legislation during the first ... [... more]
$57.00
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