Hard Heads, Soft Hearts: Tough-minded Economics For A ...
eye-opening economic perspective: Blinder will have you sitting beside yourself as he challenges the public's vastly preconceived notions of the economic world. One chapter in particular draws my attention, "Who Will Protect Us From Protectionism.& [... more]
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The Economics of Organised Crime
Excellent and Fascinating: I first encountered this book in a class called -- wait for it ---the Economics of Organized crime. I was fascinated. The book explains the workings of the Sicilian and New York Mafia as well as Asian Tongs and the drug trade. [... more]
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Quasi Rational Economics
Technical and somewhat dated, but stilll valuable: As with any model claiming predictive power, economics rests on a theory of human behavior-specifically, rational choice theory, which posits decisionmakers who are autonomous individuals who make [... more]
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The Corruption of Economics
Exposes the anti-Georgist origins of neo-classical economics: In the late 19th century, economist and social philosopher Henry George achieved international fame by calling for the abolition of all taxation save that upon land values -- a tax reform that [... more]
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Statistics for Business and Economics with Student ...
The best way to learn statistics: This book bring us statistics in a simple way, begining with easy exercises and increasing them to hard tasks. I have tried a lot of diferent books, some of them in Portuguese, and this was the only one that is realy [... more]
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Monetary Economics
Comprehensive, but dry and out-of-date.: This book is comprehensive in covering all of the conventional, albeit dated, topics in monetary economics. However, it lacks the clarity and consistency of modern textbooks. By the end of the book you will have [... more]
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Binary Economics: The New Paradigm
An original and persuasive argument for a true Third Way.: If anyone deserves a Nobel Prize for Economics, Robert Ashford and Rodney Shakespeare do for their original, scholarly and persuasive case in support of the late Louis Kelso's binary theory of [... more]
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Institutions in Economics: The Old and the New ...
no adequate to beginners: some listmania recommended this book as a initial introduction to institutional economics. but it's not good for such purpose. as a balance sheet between old and new institutional economics, it serves its purpose but as a [... more]
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Health Economics
Excellent Contribution to Health Economics Understanding: Zweifel's book is an excellent example of a real contribution to the public understanding and awareness of Health Economics principles and practicalities. I specially recommend this book to all [... more]
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Structure of Economics
very rigorous and very difficult: i used this book in an upper level undergraduate course in advanced microeconomic analysis whose curriculum (thankfully) relied mostly on class notes rather than this textbook. although i am now working on a masters [... more]
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Machine Dreams: Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science
Undecidable econ vs. Perfect Rationality: I've read about 250 pages and can recommend that anyone with an interest in economics and finance should read this fantastic book. The basis for the text are the contributions of Shannon, Turing, von Neumann, [... more]
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Human Action: A Treatise on Economics
A Revolutionary Classic: Human Action is a rare type of book. It is a system of ideas, not just in economics, but in philosophy, sociology, scientific methodology, psychology, ideology, and politics. It is also a controversial book. Its divisive nature [... more]
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