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  • Exchange Rate Regimes in the Modern Era

    by Michael W. Klein, Jay C. Shambaugh ...
    An analysis of the operation and consequences of exchange rate regimes in an era of increasing international interdependence.The exchange rate is sometimes called the most important price in a highly globalized world. A country's choice of its exchange rate regime, between government-managed fixed rates and market-determined floating rates has significant implications for monetary policy, trade, ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Something for Nothing

    A Novel

    by Michael W. Klein ...
    A young economic professor's adventures in his quest for a tenure-track position and a well-balanced life.David Fox (Ph.D. Economics, Columbia, Visiting Assistant Professor at Kester College, Knittersville, New York) is having a stressful year. He has a temporary position at a small college in a small town miles from everything except Albany. His students have never read Freakonomics. He thinks he ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Understanding Japanese Savings

    Does Population Aging Matter?

    by Robert Dekle ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia
    Japan's savings are among the highest in the world, and these high rates have played a valuable role throughout the post-war period. However, over the next several decades, Japan's population will be ageing rapidly. Will this lower Japanese savings rates?Using up-to-date financial and demographical data, author Robert Dekle finds that the answer to this question is an emphatic 'yes'. Understanding ... Read more

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  • The Secrets of Happy Families

    Improve Your Mornings, Rethink Family Dinner, Fight Smarter, Go Out and Play, and Much More

    by Bruce Feiler ...
    In The Secrets of Happy Families, New York Times bestselling author Bruce Feiler has drawn up a blueprint for modern families — a new approach to family dynamics and modern parenting, inspired by cutting-edge techniques gathered from experts in the disciplines of science, business, sports, and the military.Don't worry about family dinner.Let your kids pick their punishments.Ditch ... ... Read more

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  • Reforming Pensions

    A Short Guide

    by Nicholas Barr, Peter Diamond ...
    Mandatory pensions are a worldwide phenomenon. However, with fixed contribution rates, monthly benefits, and retirement ages, pension systems are not consistent with three long-run trends: declining mortality, declining fertility, and earlier retirement. Many systems need reform. This book gives an extensive nontechnical explanation of the economics of pension design. The theoretical arguments ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • The End of Men

    And the Rise of Women

    by Hanna Rosin ...
    Essential reading for our times, as women are pulling together to demand their rights— A landmark portrait of women, men, and power in a transformed world.“Anchored by data and aromatized by anecdotes, [Rosin] concludes that women are gaining the upper hand." –The Washington PostMen have been the dominant sex since, well, the dawn of mankind. But Hanna Rosin was the first to notice that this long ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Sovereign Risk Analysis (RLE Banking & Finance)

    by Shelagh Heffernan ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Banking & Finance
    Directed both at students of international finance and practitioners in the field, the book stresses the importance of treating the analysis of sovereign risk in a more general framework than is typically the case, identifying the components of both the demand and supply of sovereign loans.The author also discusses the link between the unique aspects of sovereign lending, the interdependence of ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Second Shift

    Working Families and the Revolution at Home

    by Arlie Hochschild, Anne Machung ...
    An updated edition of a standard in its field that remains relevant more than thirty years after its original publication.Over thirty years ago, sociologist and University of California, Berkeley professor Arlie Hochschild set off a tidal wave of conversation and controversy with her bestselling book, The Second Shift. Hochschild's examination of life in dual-career housholds finds that, factoring ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • My Freshman Year

    What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student

    by Rebekah Nathan ...
    After fifteen years of teaching anthropology at a large university, Rebekah Nathan had become baffled by her own students. Their strange behavior—eating meals at their desks, not completing reading assignments, remaining silent through class discussions—made her feel as if she were dealing with a completely foreign culture. So Nathan decided to do what anthropologists do when confused by a ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Japan's Lost Decade: Policies for Economic Revival

    by Tim Mr. Callen, Jonathan Mr. Ostry ...
    Japan’s weak economic performance in the 1990s has had implications not only for its own people, but for the world economy more generally, given Japan’s importance as a trading partner and supplier of capital. Therefore, it is essential that Japan unlock its growth potential. The IMF has worked with the Japanese authorities to identify the policies needed to bring Japan’s economy out of its recent ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • More or Less

    Choosing a Lifestyle of Excessive Generosity

    by Jeff Shinabarger ...
    In More or Less, Jeff Shinabarger calls readers to create their own social experiments to answer the question, “What is enough?”It all started with one idea: What would happen if we created a culture in which we gave away whatever was more than enough for us? How would our habits change if we shed the excess of money, clutter, and food in our lives? In More or Less, readers will learn how to draw ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Safeguarding Global Financial Stability

    Political, Social, Cultural, and Economic Theories and Models

    by Gerard Caprio ...
    Political and social forces exert pressure on our globalized economy in many forms, from formal and informal policies to financial theories and technical models. Our efforts to shape and direct these forces to preserve financial stability reveal much about the ways we perceive the financial economy. The Handbook of Safeguarding Global Financial Stability examines our political economy, ... Read more

    $179.99 USD