Accounting, Economics & Finance

Introduction -- Colonial faith: work, wealth, and the wider welfare -- Acting for self's sake: the later colonial era -- Laissez-Faire for Americans -- Ethics better than the morals of hermits -- Religious socialism: the communal Moravians -- Abolition: human dignity as a boundary to markets -- Social Darwinists of different species -- New influences in economics -- The social gospel and Catholic thought around 1900 -- The 1920s and 1930s: depressed old values -- Too agnostic, too certain: welfare economics, Chicago economics -- Moralists of twentieth-century capitalism -- Unconventional alternatives to the conventional wisdom -- An ecumenical consensus on economic ethics -- Summary, assessments, and a projection.

Provides a clear look at the financial lenders, regulators, and politicians responsible for the financial crisis of 2008. Ritholtz explores how the United States evolved from a rugged independent nation to a place where financial firms are allowed to self-regulate in good times, but are bailed out by taxpayers in bad times.

This myth-shattering book reveals the methods Roubini used to foretell the current crisis before other economists saw it coming and shows how those methods can help to make sense of the present and prepare for the future

Globalization : yesterday and today -- Globalization and material prosperity : what's at stake? -- Why people trade: the economics case for free trade -- Trade, jobs, and wages -- Alleged exceptions to the case for free trade -- The balance of trade and trade deficits -- The institutions of globalization -- Conclusion.

"Guide for the nonspecialist to interpreting economic indicators relating to GDP and GNI (GNP); growth, trends, and cycles; population and employment; government; consumers; investment and savings; industry and commerce; balance of payments; exchange rates; and money and financial markets. Clearly explains the economic realities of today's world"--Provided by publisher.

This work bridges a critical gap in the social sciences. It brings identity and norms to economics. People's notions of what is proper, and what is forbidden, and for whom, are fundamental to how hard they work, and how they learn, spend, and save

"Reflecting a strong managerial orientation, a corporate emphasis, and a true global-local focus, International Business: Managing Globalization explains the whats and whys of global differences as it covers industries, competitors, regions, and markets from the perspectives of practicing managers. Author John S. Hill reviews the geographic and historic backgrounds of regions and markets in a way that no other text has done, with special focus on global supply chains, global branding, and world religions as they affect management at the local level."--BOOK JACKET.
DSU Title III 2007-2012.

The subject of economics -- What economists do -- How well do they do it? -- Some infrastructure -- Beguiling words -- Important economic ideas: often misunderstood -- Economic theory and policy -- The Crown Jewel of economics: the price mechanism -- Risk taking and incentives -- Looking around corners -- Natural resources and environmental economics -- Looking at data -- Empirical economics -- Some simple (?) ways of presenting data: percentages, figures, and graphs -- Samples and their problems -- Regressions: the workhorse of empirical economics -- The workhorse in action: some examples of empirical economics

Local economic development in a global market -- Business location, expansion, and retention -- Markets, urban systems, and local development -- Economic interdependence and local structure -- Regional growth and development -- Additional tools for regional analysis -- Institutionalist perspectives on local development -- Local economic development in a flattening world -- Land use -- Housing and neighborhood development -- Poverty and lagging regions -- Local governance, finance, and regional integration -- Planning, future studies, and development policy.

The process of globalisation has been ongoing for centuries, but few would doubt that it has accelerated and intensified in recent decades. This acceleration is evidenced as much by the strong synchronicity in the rapid transmission of financial crises starting in late 2007 as it is by the decade of almost unprecedented growth in international trade and financial market liberalisation that preceded it. This book shows how the international economy has become more connected via increased production, trade, capital flows and financial linkages. Using a variety of methodologies, including both panel econometrics and DSGE modelling, a team of experts from academia, central banks and the IMF examine how this increased globalisation has affected competitiveness, productivity, inflation and the labour market. This timely contribution to the globalisation literature provides a longer-term perspective while also evaluating some of the potential implications for policy makers, particularly from a European perspective

pt. 1. The facts of business cycles. Why study business cycles? -- Describing business cycles -- pt. 2. The macroeconomic theory of business cycles and forecasting. Early business cycle theories -- Keynes and Keynesian theory -- The Monetarist model -- The Rational Expectations model -- Real business cycle models -- New Keynesian models -- Macroeconomic forecasting -- pt. 3. Business cycles in the United States. The Great Depression -- Postwar business cycles in the United States -- A "new economy" in the United States? -- pt. 4. Modern international recessions and depressions. The East Asian crisis -- Argentina and the role of the international monetary fund -- The Great Recession in Japan -- Conclusions : what we do and do not know about business cycles.

The roots of the mortgage bubble, the story of the Wall Street collapse, and the government's unprecedented response are captured in this blow-by-blow account of "the end of Wall Street" by one of our most trusted business journalists.

Examines the rise and fall of the efficient markets theory, the development of modern finance, and the rise of behavioral economics, in an account that draws on interviews with top thinkers while demystifying the ideas that forged the modern market.

Introduction a consuming issue -- Sustainable consumption a mainstream agenda -- Sustainable consumption and the new economics -- Grassroots innovations for sustainable consumption -- Sustainable food growing carrots and community -- Sustainable housing : building a greener future -- Sustainable currencies : green money from the grassroots -- Conclusions : seedbeds for sustainable consu

Findings : the global economic landscape -- Japan : a dual economy -- Europe : falling behind -- The United States : consumer is king -- Korea : following Japans path -- Brazil : big government is big problem -- Russia : distorted market economy -- India : bad economic management from democratic government -- Patterns : clear and strong -- Why bad economic policy around the world? -- New approaches -- So what.