Libros de: Mit Press

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  • The Power Brokers "The Struggle to Shape and Control the Electric Power Industry"

    Lambert, Jeremiah D.

    Mit Press (2015)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9780262029506
    • Páginas: 400
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.34,95 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    For more than a century, the interplay between private, investor-owned electric utilities and government regulators has shaped the electric power industry in the United States. Provision of an essential service to largely dependent consumers invited ...

  • The Regulation of International Trade Vol.1 "GATT"

    Mavroidis, Petros

    Mit Press (2016)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9780262029841
    • Páginas: 648
    • Fecha de edición: 2016

    pvp.96,45 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was created alongside other towering achievements of the post-World War II era, including the United Nations, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund. GATT, the first ...

  • The Regulation of International Trade Vol.2 "The WTO Agreements on Trade in Goods"

    Mavroidis, Petros

    Mit Press (2016)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9780262029995
    • Páginas: 888
    • Fecha de edición: 2016

    pvp.99,95 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) has extended its institutional arsenal since the Kennedy round in the early 1960s. The current institutional design is the outcome of the Uruguay round and agreements reached ...

  • Water Resource Economics "The Analysis of Scarcity, Policies, and Projects"

    Griffin, Ronald C.

    Mit Press (2016)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9780262034043
    • Páginas: 496
    • Fecha de edición: 2016

    pvp.108,50 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    Economics brings powerful insights to water management, but most water professionals receive limited training in it. The second edition of this text offers a comprehensive development of water resource economics that is accessible to engineers ...

  • The Economics of Infrastructure Provisioning "The Changing Role of the State"

    Florio, Massimo Grove, Nico Kranz, Johann Picot, Arnold

    Mit Press

    valoración

    • EAN: 9780262029650
    • Páginas: 0

    pvp.37,75 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    Infrastructures -- tangible, intangible, and institutional public facilities, from bridges to health care -- are a vital precondition for economic and societal wellbeing. There has been an increasing awareness that we cannot rely on market ...

  • Managing Risk and Uncertainty "A Strategic Approach"

    Friberg, Richard

    Mit Press (2015)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9780262528191
    • Páginas: 400
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.57,25 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    This book offers a framework for making decisions under risk and uncertainty. Synthesizing research from economics, finance, decision theory, management, and other fields, the book provides a set of tools and a way of thinking ...

  • Greening the Global Economy

    Pollin, Robert

    Mit Press (2015)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9780262028233
    • Páginas: 176
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.23,95 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    In order to control climate change, the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates that greenhouse gas emissions will need to fall by about forty percent by 2030.

    Achieving the target goals will ...

  • Modern Macroeconomics

    Chugh, Sanjay K.

    Mit Press (2015)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9780262029377
    • Páginas: 552
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.89,95 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    The modern study and analysis of macroeconomics begins by considering how microeconomic units -- consumers and firms -- make decisions, and then investigates how these choices interact to yield economy-wide outcomes. This innovative textbook takes ...

  • Big Ideas in Macroeconomics "A Nontechnical View"

    Athreya, Kartik B.

    Mit Press (2015)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9780262528306
    • Páginas: 440
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.26,95 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    Macroeconomists have been caricatured either as credulous savants in love with the beauty of their mathematical models or as free-market fundamentalists who admit no doubt as to the market's wisdom. In this book, Kartik Athreya ...

  • Eco- Business "A Big-Brand Takeover of Sustainability"

    Dauvergne, Peter Lister, Jane

    Mit Press (2015)

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    • EAN: 9780262528337
    • Páginas: 208
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.19,50 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    McDonald's promises to use only beef, coffee, fish, chicken, and cooking oil obtained from sustainable sources. Coca-Cola promises to achieve water neutrality. Unilever seeks to achieve 100 percent sustainable agricultural sourcing by 2020. Walmart has ...

  • In 100 Years "Leading Economists Predict the Future"

    Palacios-Huerta, Ignacio

    Mit Press (2015)

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    • EAN: 9780262528344
    • Páginas: 216
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.19,50 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    This pithy and engaging volume shows that economists may be better equipped to predict the future than science fiction writers. Economists' ideas, based on both theory and practice, reflect their knowledge of the laws of ...

  • City Cycling

    Pucher, John

    Mit Press (2012)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9780262517812
    • Páginas: 416
    • Fecha de edición: 2012

    pvp.34,75 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    Bicycling in cities is booming, for many reasons: health and environmental benefits, time and cost savings, more and better bike lanes and paths, innovative bike sharing programs, and the sheer fun of riding. City Cycling ...

  • Capital Markets "Institutions, Instruments, and Risk Management"

    Fabozzi, Frank J.

    Mit Press (2015)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9780262029483
    • Páginas: 1064
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.121,95 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    Over the last fifty years, an extensive array of instruments for financing, investing, and controlling risk has become available in financial markets, with demand for these innovations driven by the needs of investors and borrowers. ...

  • Systemic Risk, Crises, and Macroprudential Regulation

    Freixas, Xavier Laeven, Luc Peydró, José Luis

    Mit Press (2015)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9780262028691
    • Páginas: 488
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.49,95 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    The recent financial crisis has shattered all standard approaches to banking regulation. Regulators now recognize that banking regulation cannot be simply based on individual financial institutions' risks. Instead, systemic risk and macroprudential regulation have come ...

  • The Knowledge Capital of Nations "Education and the Economics of Growth"

    Hanushek, Eric A. Woessmann, Ludger

    Mit Press (2015)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9780262029179
    • Páginas: 282
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.26,95 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    In this book Eric Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann make a simple, central claim, developed with rigorous theoretical and empirical support: knowledge is the key to a country's development. Of course, every country acknowledges the importance ...

  • Oil, Illiberalism, and War "The United States is addicted to crude oil. In this book, Andrew Price-Smith argues that this addiction"

    Price-Smith, Andrew T.

    Mit Press (2015)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9780262029063
    • Páginas: 248
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.26,95 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    The United States is addicted to crude oil. In this book, Andrew Price-Smith argues that this addiction has distorted the conduct of American foreign policy in profound and malign ways, resulting in interventionism, exploitation, and ...

  • The Container Principle "How a Box Changes the Way We Think"

    Klose, A.

    Mit Press (2015)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9780262028578
    • Páginas: 416
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.28,30 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    We live in a world organized around the container. Standardized twenty- and forty-foot shipping containers carry material goods across oceans and over land; provide shelter, office space, and storage capacity; inspire films, novels, metaphors, and ...

  • How to Write a Thesis

    Eco, Umberto

    Mit Press (2015)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9780262527132
    • Páginas: 256
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.14,50 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    By the time Umberto Eco published his best-selling novel The Name of the Rose, he was one of Italy's most celebrated intellectuals, a distinguished academic and the author of influential works on semiotics. Some years ...

  • Governing by Debt

    Maurizio Lazzarato

    Mit Press (2015)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9781584351634
    • Páginas: 280
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.13,45 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    Experts, pundits, and politicians agree: public debt is hindering growth and increasing unemployment. Governments must reduce debt at all cost if they want to restore confidence and get back on a path to prosperity. Maurizio ...

  • Econometrics in a Formal Science of Economics "Theory and the Measurement of Economic Relations"

    Stigum, Bernt

    Mit Press (2015)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9780262028585
    • Páginas: 392
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.69,95 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    Econometrics is a study of good and bad ways to measure economic relations. In this book, Bernt Stigum considers the role that economic theory ought to play in such measurements and proposes a formal science ...