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This book is an attempt to give a global explanation to the global crisis that the Western world has been experiencing since 2007. The crisis was e...

Commenting on his collaboration with Geoffrey Brennan on THE POWER TO TAX, James M. Buchanan says that the book is "demonstrable proof of the value...

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The private sector pension system in the United States represents trillions of dollars in assets and is a key source of financial security for mill...

Numerous empirical studies have analysed the identification and nature of the underlying process of an economic system, as well as the influence of...

There are important lessons to be learned and analytical frameworks to be adapted and reused from the body of reference provided by the past histor...

A monumental work that outlines the dynamics of individual choice as it is displayed in the process of public finance. Buchanan is perhaps nowhere ...

This book provides the reader with an introduction to Public Governance. To achieve such goal it enlarges upon six broad issues, each of them requi...

The idea of this book is to provide insight into the composition and structure of public pension and early retirement schemes in seven European cou...

THE RATIONALE OF CENTRAL BANKING was first published in England in 1936. Vera Smith spent her professional career in a variety of research position...

Real estate valuations, which encompass appraisals and other estimation methods, have come under increased scrutiny in the wake of the recent mortg...

The turmoil in the international financial markets since the sub-prime loan crisis has had a significant effect on the real-estate investment marke...

As it stands today, the spectrum of methods, tools, and applications that populate the area of computational finance is literally vast. Distinctive...

Hedge funds were used to "hedge" or protect against loss due to market uncertainties. The business of hedge funds began to bear fruits in the mid-1...

This book deals with the issue of reforming risk in financial markets. This issue has become red hot with the global economic meltdown caused large...

This book presents a detailed analysis of the Turkish banking and financial markets. The emphasis of the book is on the interrelations between comp...