Author: Ray Fair
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: models, macroeconometric, testing
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 1998-08-19
List price: $72.50
ISBN-10: 0674875036
ISBN-13: 9780674875036

In this book Ray Fair expounds powerful techniques for estimating and analyzing macroeconometric models. He takes advantage of the remarkable decrease in computational costs that has occurred since the early 1980s by implementing such sophisticated techniques as stochastic simulation. Testing Macroeconometric Models also incorporates the assumption of rational expectations in the estimation, solution, and testing of the models. And it presents the latest versions of Fair’s models of the economies of the United States and other countries. After estimating and testing the U.S. model,

Author: Glenn Firebaugh
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: inequality, income, global, geography, new
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2003-03-31
List price: $26.50
ISBN-10: 0674019873
ISBN-13: 9780674019874

The surprising finding of this book is that, contrary to conventional wisdom, global income inequality is decreasing. Critics of globalization and others maintain that the spread of consumer capitalism is dramatically polarizing the worldwide distribution of income. But as the demographer Glenn Firebaugh carefully shows, income inequality for the world peaked in the late twentieth century and is now heading downward because of declining income inequality across nations. Furthermore, as income inequality declines across nations, it is rising within nations (though not as rapidly as it is declin

Author: Steven Shavell
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: law, accident, analysis, economic
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1987-09-11
List price: $63.00
ISBN-10: 0674225252
ISBN-13: 9780674225251

Accident law, if properly designed, is capable of reducing the incidence of mishaps by making people act more cautiously. Scholarly writing on this branch of law traditionally has been concerned with examining the law for consistency with felt notions of right and duty. Since the 1960s, however, a group of legal scholars and economists have focused on identifying the effects of accident law on people’s behaviour. Steven Shavell’s book is the definitive synthesis of research to date in this new field.

Authors:Richard K. Lester, Michael J. Piore,
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: dimension, missing, innovation
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2006-04-15
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0674019946
ISBN-13: 9780674019942

Amid mounting concern over the loss of jobs to low-wage economies, one fact is clear: America’s prosperity hinges on the ability of its businesses to continually introduce new products and services. But what makes for a creative economy? How can the remarkable surge of innovation that fueled the boom of the 1990s be sustained? For an answer, Richard K. Lester and Michael J. Piore examine innovation strategies in some of the economy’s most dynamic sectors. Through eye-opening case studies of new product development in fields such as cell phones, medical devices, and blue jea

Author: Avishai Margalit
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: memory, ethics
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2004-03-15
List price: $19.00
ISBN-10: 0674013786
ISBN-13: 9780674013780

Much of the intense current interest in collective memory concerns the politics of memory. In a book that asks, "Is there an ethics of memory?" Avishai Margalit addresses a separate, perhaps more pressing, set of concerns. The idea he pursues is that the past, connecting people to each other, makes possible the kinds of "thick" relations we can call truly ethical. Thick relations, he argues, are those that we have with family and friends, lovers and neighbors, our tribe and our nation--and they are all dependent on shared memories. But we also have "thin" relations with total strangers,

Author: Spencer R. Weart
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: histories, science, technology, medicine, new, expanded, global, warming, revised, discovery
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2008-10-31
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 067403189X
ISBN-13: 9780674031890

The award-winning book is now revised and expanded. In 2001 an international panel of distinguished climate scientists announced that the world was warming at a rate without precedent during at least the last ten millennia, and that warming was caused by the buildup of greenhouse gases from human activity. The story of how scientists reached that conclusion?by way of unexpected twists and turns?was the story Spencer Weart told in The Discovery of Global Warming. Now he brings his award-winning account up to date, revised throughout to reflect the latest science and with a new conclusion tha

Authors:Aleksandr R. Luria, Jerome Bruner,
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: vast, memory, book, little, mnemonist, mind
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1987-04-30
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0674576225
ISBN-13: 9780674576223