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Libros de: Mit Press

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  • Reinventing Foreign Aid.

    Reinventing Foreign Aid.

    Easterly, William

    Mit Press (2008)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9780262550666
    • Páginas: 624
    • Fecha de edición: 2008

    pvp.42,00 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    Top experts in the field discuss how to improve the effectiveness of foreign aid, proposing practical solutions to specific problems rather than a utopian master plan.The urgency of reducing poverty in the developing world has ...

  • Incentives And Choice In Health Care.

    Incentives And Choice In Health Care.

    Kasper, Hirschel Sloan,Frank A.

    Mit Press (2008)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9780262693653
    • Páginas: 416
    • Fecha de edición: 2008

    pvp.36,90 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    Leading scholars in the field of health economics evaluate the role of incentives in health and health-care decision making from the perspectives of both supply and demand.A vast body of empirical evidence has accumulated demonstrating ...

  • The Marginal Cost Of Public Funds. Theory And Applications.

    The Marginal Cost Of Public Funds. Theory And Applications.

    Dahlby, Bev

    Mit Press (2008)

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    • EAN: 9780262042505
    • Páginas: 332
    • Fecha de edición: 2008

    pvp.47,50 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    This book presents a unified treatment of the marginal cost of public funds, covering both its theoretical foundations and how the MCF concept can be used to analyze tax policy issues.The marginal cost of public ...

  • Sustainability Of Public Debt.

    Sustainability Of Public Debt.

    Neck, Reinhard Sturm, Jan-Egbert

    Mit Press (2008)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9780262140980
    • Páginas: 304
    • Fecha de edición: 2008

    pvp.42,00 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    This book provides theoretical and empirical perspectives on how fiscal policies in Europe and the United States can avoid government bankruptcy.In recent decades, governments have built up substantial public debt, which is often accompanied by ...

  • Bond Markets In Latin America. On The Verge Of a Big Bang?.

    Bond Markets In Latin America. On The Verge Of a Big Bang?.

    Borensztein, Eduardo Cowan, Kevin Eichengreen, Barry Panizza, Ugo

    Mit Press (2008)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9780262026321
    • Páginas: 305
    • Fecha de edición: 2008

    pvp.41,95 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    This is the first comprehensive examination of the importance of local bond market development in Latin America, with conceptual and comparative assessments, case studies of six countries, and new, unique data sets.Developing local bond markets ...

  • Tax Policy And The Economy. Vol. 21

    Tax Policy And The Economy. Vol. 21

    Poterba, James M.

    Mit Press (2007)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9780262662024
    • Páginas: 200
    • Fecha de edición: 2007

    pvp.30,85 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    Recent academic research findings on topics relating to taxation and social insurance policy, including the implicit tax imposed by Medicaid on private long-term care insurance benefits, an alternative system of unemployment insurance, and federal energy ...

  • Institutions And Norms In Economic Development.

    Institutions And Norms In Economic Development.

    Grandstein, Mark Konrad, Kai

    Mit Press (2007)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9780262072847
    • Páginas: 256
    • Fecha de edición: 2007

    pvp.36,30 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    This book features experts who address "the development puzzle" - unprecedented growth coupled with unequal distribution of that growth across different countries - and focus on the importance of institutional arrangements and norms and culture.Recent ...

  • Children And Pensions

    Children And Pensions

    Cigno, Alessandro Werding, Martin

    Mit Press (2007)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9780262033695
    • Páginas: 256
    • Fecha de edición: 2007

    pvp.41,80 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    This book gives an analysis of the effect of public pension schemes on a country's fertility rate and a proposal for policies to reform pension coverage in light of this.The rapidly aging populations of many ...

  • The Enclave Economy. Foreign Investment And Sustainable Development In Mexico'S Silicon

    The Enclave Economy. Foreign Investment And Sustainable Development In Mexico'S Silicon

    Gallagher, Kevin P.

    Mit Press (2007)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9780262572422
    • Páginas: 232
    • Fecha de edición: 2007

    pvp.25,40 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    This title analyzes the extent to which foreign investment in Mexico's information technology sector brought economic, social, and environmental benefits to Guadalajara.Foreign investment has been widely perceived as a panacea for developing countries - as ...

  • Globalization And Its Enemies

    Globalization And Its Enemies

    Cohen, Daniel

    Mit Press (2007)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9780262532976
    • Páginas: 208
    • Fecha de edición: 2007

    pvp.18,00 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    This book provides a provocative argument that the frustrations of globalization stem from the gap between the expectations created by modern media and the lagging economic reality in poor countries.The enemies of globalization - whether ...

  • Generation Digital: Politics, Commerce And Childhood In The Age Of The Internet.

    Generation Digital: Politics, Commerce And Childhood In The Age Of The Internet.

    Montgomery, Kathryn

    Mit Press (2007)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9780262134781
    • Páginas: 368
    • Fecha de edición: 2007

    pvp.36,00 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    This title talks about the role that children and youth play in the emerging digital media culture - as consumers targeted by marketing campaigns, as creators of their own digital culture, and as political participants. ...

  • Youth, Identity, And Digital Media.

    Youth, Identity, And Digital Media.

    Buckingham, David

    Mit Press (2008)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9780262524834
    • Páginas: 209
    • Fecha de edición: 2008

    pvp.21,00 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    The contributors discuss how growing up in a world saturated with digital media affects the development of young people's individual and social identities.As young people today grow up in a world saturated with digital media, ...

  • Money, Exchange Rates, And Output

    Money, Exchange Rates, And Output

    Calvo, Guillermo A.

    Mit Press (2006)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9780262532822
    • Páginas: 536
    • Fecha de edición: 2006

    pvp.36,35 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    Guillermo Calvo, who foresaw the financial crisis that followed the devaluation of Mexico's peso, has spent much of his career thinking beyond the conventional wisdom. In a quiet and understated way, Calvo has made seminal ...

  • Living Standards And The Wealth Of Nations: Successes And Failures In Real Convergence

    Living Standards And The Wealth Of Nations: Successes And Failures In Real Convergence

    Balcerowicz, Leszek Fischer, Stanley

    Mit Press (2006)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9780262025959
    • Páginas: 442
    • Fecha de edición: 2006

    pvp.60,00 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    The question of convergence, or under what conditions the per capita income levels of developing countries can catch up to those found in advanced economies, is critical for understanding economic growth and development. Convergence has ...

  • Growth And Empowerment: Making Development Happen

    Growth And Empowerment: Making Development Happen

    Dethier, Jean-Jacques Rogers, F.Halsey Stern, Nicholas

    Mit Press (2006)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9780262693462
    • Páginas: 488
    • Fecha de edición: 2006

    pvp.27,25 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    Despite significant gains in promoting economic growth and living conditions (or "human progress") globally over the last twenty-five years, much of the developing world remains plagued by poverty and its attendant problems, including high rates ...

  • Inequality And Growth: Theory And Policy Implications

    Inequality And Growth: Theory And Policy Implications

    Eicher, Theo S. Turnovsky, Stephen J.

    Mit Press (2007)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9780262550642
    • Páginas: 341
    • Fecha de edición: 2007

    pvp.21,75 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    Even minute increases in a country's growth rate can result in dramatic changes in living standards over just one generation. The benefits of growth, however, may not be shared equally. Some may gain less than ...

  • Does Game Theory Work?: The Bargaining Challenge

    Does Game Theory Work?: The Bargaining Challenge

    Binmore, Ken

    Mit Press (2007)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9780262026079
    • Páginas: 417
    • Fecha de edición: 2007

    pvp.54,55 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    This volume brings together all of Ken Binmore's influential experimental papers on bargaining along with newly written commentary in which Binmore discusses the underlying game theory and addresses the criticism leveled at it by behavioral ...

  • Escape From Empire: The Developing World'S Journey Through Heaven And Hell

    Escape From Empire: The Developing World'S Journey Through Heaven And Hell

    Amsden, Alice H.

    Mit Press (2007)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9780262012348
    • Páginas: 224
    • Fecha de edición: 2007

    pvp.30,85 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    The American government has been both miracle worker and villain in the developing world. From the end of World War II until the 1980s poor countries, including many in Africa and the Middle East, enjoyed ...

  • Introduction To Algorithms

    Introduction To Algorithms

    Cormen, Thomas

    Mit Press (2005)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9780262531962
    • Páginas: 1180
    • Fecha de edición: 2005

    pvp.69,00 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    This title covers a broad range of algorithms in depth, yet makes their design and analysis accessible to all levels of readers. Each chapter is relatively self-contained and can be used as a unit of ...

  • The Microstructure Approach To Exchange Rates

    The Microstructure Approach To Exchange Rates

    Lyons, Richard K.

    Mit Press (2006)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9780262622059
    • Páginas: 345
    • Fecha de edición: 2006

    pvp.27,25 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    Historically, the fields of exchange-rate economics and microstructure finance have progressed independently of each other. Recent interaction, however, has given rise to a microstructure approach to exchange rates. This book focuses on the economics of ...