Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2012. Why are some nations more prosperous than others? Why Nations Fail sets out to answer this question, with a compelling and elegantly argued new theory:...

A contabilidade gerencial é instrumento essencial para a análise das necessidades internas de qualquer organização; por meio dela, obtemos as informações necessárias para os planos de ação, as atividades de controle e as tomadas de decisão. Esta 14ª...

Muitas pessoas assumem que a capacidade de vendas eficazes exige uma personalidade única e uma atitude agressiva. Isso nem sempre é verdade, e Robert Herjavec é a prova viva. Conhecido como o “Bom Tubarão” no seriado Shark Tank – Negociando com...

As today's preeminent doomsday investor Mark Spitznagel describes his Daoist and roundabout investment approach, “one gains by losing and loses by gaining.” This is Austrian Investing, an archetypal, counterintuitive, and proven approach, gleaned...

Ludwig von Mises was the leading exponent of the Austrian School of economics throughout most of the twentieth century. He has long been regarded as a most knowledgeable and respected economist, even though his teachings were generally outside the...

Of Galbraith's classic examination of the 1929 financial collapse, the Atlantic Monthly said:"Economic writings are seldom notable for their entertainment value, but this book is. Galbraith's prose has grace and wit, and he distills a good deal of...

The Wealth of Nations is a clearly written account of economics at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. The work was a landmark work in the history of economics as it was comprehensive and an accurate characterization of the economic mechanisms at...

Over the past decade, Indonesia has developed into an important regional and global economy, as well as an active participant in the G20. The chapters in this book document the substantial improvements in the quality of macroeconomic policy that...

Vilfredo Pareto was one of the great systems theorists of the twentieth century, embracing economics, psychology, sociology and politics. In this important work, Michael McLure takes as his subject of study the rapport between Pareto's economic and...

Score your highest in econometrics? Easy. Econometrics can prove challenging for many students unfamiliar with the terms and concepts discussed in a typical econometrics course. Econometrics For Dummies eliminates that confusion with...

Os Anos do Colapso: O Estouro da Crise Econômica Mundial

While the theoretical development of DSGE models is not overly difficult to understand, practical application remains somewhat complex. The literature on this subject has some significant obscure points. This book can be thought of, firstly, as a...

Este livro propõe a reflexão sobre um dos mais intrigantes fenômenos do atual cenário econômico mundial: o crescimento da China. O país comunista avança com jeito capitalista sobre o resto do globo e produz taxas elevadas de expansão, há anos. Com...

An empirical finding by Gaspar, Jaramillo and Wingender (2016) shows that once countries cross a tax-to-GDP threshold of around 12¾ percent, real GDP per capita increases sharply and in a sustained manner over the following decade. In this paper, we...

'quot;Today, Mr. Minsky'apos;s view [of economics] is more relevant than ever.'quot;- The New York Times'quot;Indeed, the Minsky moment has become a fashionable catch phrase on Wall Street.'quot;-The Wall Street JournalJohn Maynard Keynes offers a...

A Nobel laureate reveals the often surprising rules that govern a vast array of activities—both mundane and life-changing—where money plays little or no role.

Uma analise do funcionamento do Sistema Monetario Internacional numa perspetiva historico-economica, desde o surgimento do padr?o-ouro ate a criac?o da moeda unica europeia, o euro. A obra examina as circunstancias historicas - com destaque para...

In today'apos;s fast-paced world, it'apos;s tough to find the time to read. But with Joosr guides, you can get the key insights from bestselling non-fiction titles in less than 20 minutes. Whether you want to gain knowledge on the go or find the...

Despite the recent deterioration in the global economic environment, projections for the region involve only a modest worsening of the outlook. The October 2011 Regional Economic Outlook: Western Hemisphere cautions, however, that there are severe...

The new edition of Ronald Miller and Peter BlairÃÂs classic textbook is an essential reference for students and scholars in the input-output research and applications community. The book has been fully revised and updated to reflect important...

With technology and globalization advancing at breakneck speed, the world economy becomes more complex by the day. Activists, politicians, and media enablers-conservative and liberal, left and right, informed and just plain wrong-consistently seize...

Economic Policy contains six lectures Ludwig von Mises delivered in 1959 for the Centro de Estudios sobre la Libertad in Argentina. This volume serves as an excellent introduction to what Mises sees as the simple truths of history in terms of...

In 1920, Ludwig von Mises proclaimed that all attempts to establish socialism would come to grief, for reasons of informational efficiency. At first, socialists and economists took Mises'apos;s argument seriously, but by the end of the Second World...

In this classical analysis of capitalist society, Schumpeter argues that economics is a natural self-regulating mechanism when undisturbed by "social and other meddlers." His preface shows that despite weaknesses, theories are based on logic and...

This book must rank as the most devastating analysis of socialism yet penned. . . . An economic classic in our time.—Henry HazlittMore than thirty years ago F. A. Hayek said of Socialism: 'quot;It was a work on political economy in the tradition of...

'Aceitando o desafio de mostrar a relevância do ensino da economia a todos aqueles que estão iniciando nesta área, Introdução à Economia: Princípios e Ferramentas foi escrito por duas grandes autoridades no assunto – O’Sullivan, da Oregon State...

This book is intended as a textbook for a first-year PhD 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...

This book retraces the history of macroeconomics from Keynes's General Theory to the present. Central to it is the contrast between a Keynesian era and a Lucasian - or dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) - era, each ruled by distinct...

O sistema financeiro reflete sobre as várias formas de desilusão humana e de sofrimento económico, uma vez que se debruça sobre os riscos que podem estar ligados a determinadas probabilidades e cria simultaneamente, para um grande número de pessoas,...

Estamos ciegos es de esos libros que uno no puede hacer solo. Este libro es un resumen de todas las experiencias, creencias, vivencias y aportes del día de un gran equipo y familia. Ahí reside su valor

A no-holds-barred exposé on the financial transactions of the world's favourite sport The transfer fees clubs pay to sign top players now top €4 billion a year but much of the money has been flowing out of the game. A small group of wealthy investors...

Criminologists have known for decades that income inequality is the best predictor of the local homicide rate, but why this is so has eluded them. There is a simple, compelling answer: most homicides are the dénouements of competitive interactions...

David Ricardo (1772 - 1823) was a hugely influential British political economist and stock trader. This volume, first published in 1923, contains five important pamphlets published by him, edited and with an overarching introductory essay by E. C. K....

Institutions frame behaviors and exchanges in markets, business networks, communities, and organizations throughout the world. Thanks to the pioneering work of Ronald Coase, Douglas North and Olivier Williamson, institutions are now recognized as...

Este livro aborda a realidade da democracia e da formulac?o de politicas ao nivel local, com enfoque nos temas da transparencia, participac?o cidad? e financas das autarquias, bem como das suas func?es sociais e economicas. Atraves de uma vis?o...

The West has long defined the pursuit of happiness in economic terms but now, in the wake of the 2007-8 financial crisis, it is time to think again about what constitutes our happiness.In this wide-ranging new book, the leading economist Daniel Cohen...

The study explored the perception of executive coaching among the chief executive officers (CEOs) of America's largest 500 companies as shown on Fortune magazine list of April 15, 2002. This study utilized an instrument of 12 questions. The...

Bill Quirke demonstrates practically how businesses can use internal communication to achieve differentiation, to improve their quality, customer service, and innovation, and to manage change more effectively. He describes the why, the what and the...

Introduces the increasingly popular Bayesian approach to statistics to graduates and advanced undergraduates. In contrast to the long-standing frequentist approach to statistics, the Bayesian approach makes explicit use of prior information and is...

A history of the rise of industrialism in modern Europe, containing a description of the revolutionary changes which transformed industry, commerce and agriculture at the beginning of the last century, with an account of their reactions on the...

Society, Economics, and Philosophy represents the full range of Michael Polanyi’s interests outside of his scientific work: economics, politics, society, philosophy of science, religion and positivist obstacles to it, and art. More radically than...

Equality of opportunity is about leveling the playing field so that circumstances such as gender, ethnicity, place of birth, or family background do not influence a person's life chances. Success in life should depend on people's choices, effort and...

From acclaimed thinker and former US Labor Secretary Robert Reich: how capitalism can be fixed.

Freakonomics lived on the New York Times bestseller list for an astonishing two years. Now authors Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with more iconoclastic insights and observations in SuperFreakonomics—the long awaited follow-up to their...