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A pioneering exploration of the relevance of economic theory to the practical realities of the foreign exchange market, this volume presents a well-reasoned, comprehensive examination of the degree to which economic theories and forecasts are helpful in predicting exchange rates.

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Rosko and Broyles begin the book with an overview of rising expenditures in the health care industry, commenting on inflationary pressures and the resulting reduction in access to health care services.

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Shows how the tools of stochastic control can be applied to dynamic problems of decision making under uncertainty when fixed costs are present. This book provides a treatment of two types of models, impulse and instantaneous control. It is suitable for graduate students and researchers in macroeconomics.

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The book covers cost analysis of information goods and services, benefit analysis, information as a public good, information externalities, intellectual property and monopolies, uncertainty and risk, pricing information, opportunity costs, access versus ownership, and the economics of the Internet and digital libraries.

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Providing a detailed study of the effects of market structure and government regulation on innovation in a single industry over a long period of time, this text compares the benefits of a stable industry with regulated prices, with a dynamic industry constantly introducing new products.

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This work presents a new theory and approach to the rapidly changing economics of international trade, which challenges the prevailing neo-Keynesian point of view.

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A fun and illuminating book full of surprising facts and amazing insights about how the laws of economics affect our everyday lives.

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This comprehensive and detailed analysis of the factors that determine who is in the labor force in the United States is equally interesting for the light it sheds on what people are not working or seeking work-and why they are not. The effects on labor force participation rates of both individual characteristics (e.g. age, marital status, color, e

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This is the thirty-fifth volume in the Brookings Studies of Government Finance series. It includes four essays: Analytical Foundations of Fiscal Policy""; The Incidence and Economic Effects of Taxation""; Public Expenditure Budgeting""; and State-Local Finance and Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations"".

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A systematic treatment of the economic elements that determine the need for R&D policies.

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As Chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board in the late 1970s, Alfred E. Kahn presided over the deregulation of the airlines and his book, published earlier in that decade, presented the first comprehensive integration of the economic theory and institutional practice of economic regulation.

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This text, by three distinguished authors, applies the theories and techniques of economic analysis to sport and topics related to the business of sport.

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Game theory has brought into economics an uncertainty principle similar to the one brought into physics by the quantum theory. Professor Barch's main purpose in this book is to show how one can construct realistic economic theories by taking uncertainty into account instead of dismissing it. He brings together a number of recent developments in dif

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This study, for the first time, uses modern political economic theory (public choice theory, public goods theory, and game theory) to create a theoretical framework for comparative political analysis.

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Scholars and students of both economics and public policy will find Rich's work a significant contribution to contemporary debates on welfare policy directions.

Divided into four parts, the volume begins by redefining the problem of welfare economics.

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Scholars examine some of the fundamentals of what makes "the economy" work by exploring the metaphors of and resistances to capitalism today.

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Scholars examine some of the fundamentals of what makes "the economy" work by exploring the metaphors of and resistances to capitalism today.

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The arguments over the economic policies of the Reagan Administration will continue until sufficient time has elapsed for a consensus to be possible. Campagna has recorded his conclusions based on considerable research on Reagan Administration policies. Campagna concludes that the Reagan economic policies failed.