Learn IT - Books tags economics

Above the Board: How Ethical CEOs Create Honest Corporations

McGraw-Hill, 2008

In recent years, a string of corporate scandals have sent shockwaves throughout the business world, resulting in the fracture of public trust in corporations. Now more than ever, corporate honesty and integrity are directly connected to success and growth. Above the Board provides strategies and methods to help you build a solid foundation...

E-Banking Management: Issues, Solutions, and Strategies

Information Science Publishing, 2009

"This book will explore issues critical for success in providing e-banking. The aim is to assist organizations in utilising the opportunities offered by this relatively new set of technologies." -Mahmood Shah, University of Central Lancashire, UK"

The provision of services on the Internet has expanded the field...

Venture Capital and Private Equity Contracting: An International Perspective

Academic Press, 2009

Other books present corporate finance approaches to the VC/PE industry, but many key decisions require an understanding of the ways that law and economics work together. This book is better than straight corporate finance textbooks because it offers broad perspectives and principles that enable readers to deduce the economic implications of...

Handbook of Pricing Research in Marketing

Edward Elgar Publishing, 2009

Pricing is an essential aspect of the marketing mix for brands and products. Further, pricing research in marketing is interdisciplinary, utilizing economic and psychological concepts with special emphasis on measurement and estimation. This unique Handbook provides current knowledge of pricing in a single, authoritative volume and brings together...

Surfing the Edge of Chaos: The Laws of Nature and the New Laws of Business

Crown, 2000

Every few years a book changes the way people think about a field. In psychology there is Daniel Goleman's Emotional Intelligence. In science, James Gleick's Chaos. In economics and finance, Burton Malkiel's A Random Walk Down Wall Street. And in business there is now Surfing the Edge of Chaos by Richard...

Chips, Clones, and Living Beyond 100: How Far Will the Biosciences Take Us?

FT Press, 2009

"A stimulating and exciting look at how we got to the present state of health care and where we can potentially go. A unique perspective and a great read." David Lester, Ph.D., President, ITHW Inc.; formerly Director, Human Health Technologies, Pfizer Inc. "The explosion of new knowledge in the biosciences will raise important...

Mathematics for Finance: An Introduction to Financial Engineering (Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series)

Springer, 2003

Designed to form the basis of an undergraduate course in mathematical finance, this book builds on mathematical models of bond and stock prices and covers three major areas of mathematical finance that all have an enormous impact on the way modern financial markets operate, namely: Black-Scholes' arbitrage pricing of options and other derivative...

Fragile Networks: Identifying Vulnerabilities and Synergies in an Uncertain World

John Wiley & Sons, 2009

A unified treatment of the vulnerabilities that exist in real-world network systems—with tools to identify synergies for mergers and acquisitions

Fragile Networks: Identifying Vulnerabilities and Synergies in an Uncertain World presents a comprehensive study of network systems and the roles these systems play...

Famous First Bubbles: The Fundamentals of Early Manias

MIT Press, 2000

The jargon of economics and finance contains numerous colorful terms for market-asset prices at odds with any reasonable economic explanation. Examples include "bubble," "tulipmania," "chain letter," "Ponzi scheme," "panic," "crash," "herding," and "irrational...

Design of Observational Studies (Springer Series in Statistics)

Springer, 2009

An observational study is an empiric investigation of effects caused by treatments when randomized experimentation is unethical or infeasible. Observational studies are common in most fields that study the effects of treatments on people, including medicine, economics, epidemiology, education, psychology, political science and sociology. The...

Inductive Learning Algorithms for Complex System Modeling

CRC Press, 1994

Inductive Learning Algorithms for Complex Systems Modeling is a professional monograph that surveys new types of learning algorithms for modeling complex scientific systems in science and engineering. The book features discussions of algorithm development, structure, and behavior; comprehensive coverage of all types of algorithms useful for this...

Planning and Installing Bioenergy Systems: A Guide for Installers, Architects and Engineers

Earthscan, 2005

* Describes the key features of different bioenergy technologies and offers professionals expert guidance for installation; in full color throughout!
* Includes data on selected regional, national, and international renewable energy support programs
* Written by experts, offering practical insight into the application of this...

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