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Climate Change And the Economics of the World's Fisheries: Examples Of Small Pelagic Stocks (New Horizons in Environmental Economics)

Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006

Research on the economic implications of climate change on fisheries has been both limited and fragmented. This volume investigates the economic consequences of pelagic fish fluctuations, in order to understand how to adapt and respond to various climate changes.

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Interpreting Economic and Social Data: A Foundation of Descriptive Statistics

Springer, 2009

"Interpreting Economic and Social Data" aims at rehabilitating the descriptive function of socio-economic statistics, bridging the gap between today's statistical theory on one hand, and econometric and mathematical models of society on the other. It does this by offering a deeper understanding of data and methods with surprising...

Closed-End Funds, Exchange-Traded Funds, and Hedge Funds: Origins, Functions, and Literature

Springer, 2009

"Closed-End Funds, Exchange-Traded Funds, and Hedge Funds: Origins, Functions, and Literature is a concise and valuable book that will be of interest to individual investors, financial professionals, and academic researchers, alike. It provides a brief history and institutional discussion of these investment companies and also presents a...

Economic Crisis in Europe and the Balkans: Problems and Prospects (Contributions to Economics)

Springer, 2013

The economies of the European countries are still in recession, the development process is at a standstill, companies are facing financial difficulties, and the EU’s monetary policy is tight and focused on lowering inflation. The fiscal problems and high debt levels of the northern European countries are of great importance, and they...

The Warren Buffett Way, Second Edition

John Wiley & Sons, 2004

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"Nobody has described what Buffett practices better than Hagstrom."
--Time

"Simply the most important new stock book . . . If you think you know all about Warren Buffett, you have a lot to learn from this book."
--Forbes

"It’s...

The Oxford Handbook of Political Economy (Oxford Handbooks of Political Science)

Oxford University Press, 2006

Over its long lifetime, the phrase “political economy” has had many different meanings. For Adam Smith, political economy was the science of managing a nation’s resources so as to generate wealth. For Marx, it was how the ownership of the means of production influenced historical processes. For much of the twentieth century, the...

Large-Scale Computing Techniques for Complex System Simulations (Wiley Series on Parallel and Distributed Computing)

John Wiley & Sons, 2011

Complex systems are defined as systems with many interdependent parts that give rise to nonlinear and emergent properties determining their high-level functioning and behavior. Due to the interdependence of their constituent elements and other characteristics of complex systems, it is difficult to predict system behavior based...

Macroeconomics: Principles and Policy

Cengage Learning, 2008

As usual, when preparing a new edition, we have made many small changes to improve clarity of exposition and to update the text both for recent economics events and for relevant advances in the literature. But this time we have focused on one particular addition that will, so far as we have been able to find out, differentiate this...

Health Services Evaluation (Health Services Research)

Springer, 2019

The Handbook of Health Services Research is a reference for all aspects of the field of health services and outcomes research. It addresses the increasing need for comprehensive, yet balanced, information in a field that welcomes various disciplines: medicine, public health, statistics, economics, management, policy, and information technology....

Standard Handbook of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering: Volume 1

Gulf Professional, 1996

This petroleum and natural gas engineering two-volume handbook is written in the spirit of the classic handbooks of other engineering disciplines. The two volumes reflect the importance of the industry its engineers serve (i.e., Standard and Poor's shows that the fuels sector is the largest single entity in the gross domestic...

Next Generation Photovoltaics: High Efficiency through Full Spectrum Utilization (Series in Optics and Optoelectronics)

Taylor & Francis, 2003

This book results from a meeting that took place in Cercedilla, Madrid, Spain in March 2002. The meeting was about new ideas that could lead us to better use of the solar spectrum with the ultimate goal of achieving superior photovoltaic devices and, consequently, a reduction in their price. The meeting, despite being short,...

World Market Price of Oil: Impacting Factors and Forecasting (SpringerBriefs in Economics)

Springer, 2019

This book develops new econometric models to analyze and forecast the world market price of oil. The authors construct ARIMA and Trend models to forecast oil prices, taking into consideration outside factors such as political turmoil and solar activity on the price of oil. Incorporating historical and contemporary market trends, the...

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