Behavioral Economics and Healthy Behaviors: Key Concepts and  Current Research

Editors: Yaniv Hanoch, [and two others].

Publisher: Routledge

Year: 2017

Subjects:ECONOMICS–PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS.

     Description:

The book opens with an overview of the core theoretical concepts, after which each chapter assesses how behavioral economic research and practice can inform public policy across a range of health issues. Including chapters on tobacco, alcohol and drug use, physical activity, dietary intake, cancer screening and sexual health, the book integrates the key insights from the field to both developed and developing nations. More…

Comparative Economics in a Transforming World Economy

Authors:  J. Barkley Rosser Jr. and Marina V. Rosser.

Publisher: Cambridge

Year: 2018

Subjects:ECONOMICS–PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS.

     Description:

It offers a broad survey of economic systems, then looks separately at market capitalism, Marxism and socialism, and “new traditional economies” (with an emphasis on the role of religions, Islam in particular, in economic systems). It presents case studies of advanced capitalist nations, including the United States, Japan, Sweden, and Germany; alternative paths in the transition from socialist to market economies taken by such countries as Russia, the former Soviet republics, Poland, China, and the two Koreas; and developing countries, including India, Iran, South Africa, Mexico, and Brazil. The new chapters on Brazil and South Africa complete the book’s coverage of all five BRICS nations; the chapter on South Africa extends the book’s comparative treatment to another continent. The chapter on Brazil with its account of the role of the Amazon rain forest as a great carbon sink expands the coverage of global environmental and sustainability issues. Each chapter ends with discussion questions. More…

Money and Finance After the Crisis: Critical Thinking for Uncertain Times

Editors:  Brett Christophers, [and two others].

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Year: 2017

Subjects: GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS,-2008-2009

      Description:

The book opens with an overview of the core theoretical concepts, after which each chapter assesses how behavioral economic research and practice can inform public policy across a range of health issues. Including chapters on tobacco, alcohol and drug use, physical activity, dietary intake, cancer screening and sexual health, the book integrates the key insights from the field to both developed and developing nations. More…

Money Payments and Liquidity

Authors: Guillaume Rocheteau and Ed Nosal..

Publisher: Cambridge

Year: 2017

Subjects:LIQUIDITY  (ECONOMICS) .

      Description:

In Money, Payments, and Liquidity, Guillaume Rocheteau and Ed Nosal provide a comprehensive investigation into the economics of money, liquidity, and payments by explicitly modeling the mechanics of trade and its various frictions (including search, private information, and limited commitment). Adopting the last generation of the New Monetarist framework developed by Ricardo Lagos and Randall Wright, among others, Nosal and Rocheteau provide a dynamic general equilibrium framework to examine the frictions in the economy that make money and liquid assets play a useful role in trade. They discuss such topics as cashless economies; the properties of an asset that make it suitable to be used as a medium of exchange; the optimal monetary policy and the cost of inflation; the coexistence of money and credit; and the relationships among liquidity, asset prices, monetary policy; and the different measures of liquidity in over-the-counter markets. More…

Port Economics

Author: Wayne K. Talley.

Publisher: Routledge

Year: 2018

Subjects:HARBORS –ECONOMICS ASPECTS.

     Description:

Port Economics is the study of the economic decisions (and their consequences) of the users and providers of port services. A port works as an “engine” for economic development. This book provides a detailed discussion of port freight service users, such as freight water and land carriers, that have their ships and vehicles serviced and their cargoes unloaded by ports, as well as passenger services such as ferry carriers which are serviced by ferry passenger ports. More…

R in Finance and Economics: A Beginners Guide

Authors: Abhay Kumar Singh [and 1 other].

Publisher: World Scientific

Year: 2017

Subjects:FINANCE — SOFTWARE.

     Description:

The book opens with an overview of the core theoretical concepts, after which each chapter assesses how behavioral economic research and practice can inform public policy across a range of health issues. Including chapters on tobacco, alcohol and drug use, physical activity, dietary intake, cancer screening and sexual health, the book integrates the key insights from the field to both developed and developing nations. More…

The Moral Economists : R.H. Tawney, Karl Polanyi, E.P. Thompson, and the Critique of Capitalism

Author: Tim Rogan.

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Year: 2018

Subjects:CAPITALISM — MORAL AND ETHICAL  ASPECTS.

      Description:

Tim Rogan focuses on three of the twentieth century’s most influential critics of capitalism—R. H. Tawney, Karl Polanyi, and E. P. Thompson. Making arguments about the relationships between economics and ethics in modernity, their works commanded wide readerships, shaped research agendas, and influenced public opinion. Rejecting the social philosophy of laissez-faire but fearing authoritarianism, these writers sought out forms of social solidarity closer than individualism admitted but freer than collectivism allowed. They discovered such solidarities while teaching economics, history, and literature to workers in the north of England and elsewhere. They wrote histories of capitalism to make these solidarities articulate. They used makeshift languages of “tradition” and “custom” to describe them until Thompson patented the idea of the “moral economy.” Their program began as a way of theorizing everything economics left out, but in challenging utilitarian orthodoxy in economics from the outside, they anticipated the work of later innovators inside economics. More…