Authors:Louis Putterman, Randall S. Kroszner,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: reader, firm, nature, economic
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1996-01-26
List price: $38.99
ISBN-10: 0521556287
ISBN-13: 9780521556286

This book brings together classic writings on the economic nature and organization of firms, including works by Ronald Coase, Armen Alchian and Harold Demsetz, Michael Jensen and William Meckling, and Oliver Williamson, as well as more recent contributions by Paul Milgrom and John Roberts, Bengt Holmstrom, and Oliver Hart. Part I explores the general theme of the firm’s economic nature and its place in the market system; Part II covers the scope of the firm; Part III examines internal organization and the human factor; and Part IV ties the firm’s organization and behavior to issue

Author: Peter Lynch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: richardson, dream, prediction, weather, numerical, emergence
Number of Pages: 290
Published: 2006-11-20
List price: $80.00
ISBN-10: 0521857295
ISBN-13: 9780521857291

Lewis Fry Richardson dreamt that scientific weather prediction would one day become a practical reality. Before his ideas could bear fruit several advances were needed: better understanding of the dynamics of the atmosphere; stable computational algorithms to integrate the equations; regular observations of the free atmosphere; and powerful automatic computer equipment. By 1950 advances in all these fronts were sufficient to permit the first computer forecast to be made. Over the ensuing fifty years progress in numerical weather prediction has been dramatic. Weather prediction and climate mode

Author: Jean-Paul Azam
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: saharan, africa, sub, growth, exchange, rate, trade
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2006-12-11
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 0521865360
ISBN-13: 9780521865364

In this sophisticated yet accessible analysis of the open economies of Sub-Saharan Africa, Jean-Paul Azam analyses international trade, exchange rate issues, and longer-term growth, taking due account of the distinctive features of African economies. In particular, he examines the informal as well as the formal institutional frameworks which prevail in different African countries and which affect their macroeconomic behaviour. Key issues explored include tariffs and quotas, membership of the CFA Zone, and currency convertibility or inconvertibility, as well as smuggling, corruption, parallel m

Authors:David Epstein, Sharyn O’Halloran,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: powers, political, separate, economy, institutions, decisions, making, policy, transaction, cost, politics, approach, delegating
Number of Pages: 340
Published: 1999-11-13
List price: $34.99
ISBN-10: 052166960X
ISBN-13: 9780521669603

In this path-breaking book, David Epstein and Sharyn O’Halloran produce the first unified theory of policy making between the legislative and executive branches. Examining major US policy initiatives from 1947 to 1992, the authors describe the conditions under which the legislature narrowly constrains executive discretion, and when it delegates authority to the bureaucracy. In doing so, the authors synthesize diverse and competitive literatures, from transaction cost and principal-agent theory in economics, to information models developed in both economics and political science, to subst

Author: Richard C. K. Burdekin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: future, prospects, experiences, past, monetary, challenges, china
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2008-07-07
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0521880165
ISBN-13: 9780521880169

Despite the People’s Republic of China’s remarkable growth over the post-1978 reform period, questions have arisen about the sustainability of its exchange rate policy and the soundness of its financial system. This book focuses on the key monetary challenges to China’s continued advancement and addresses such topical issues as the buildup of foreign exchange reserves, monetary control, credit allocation difficulties, and the expanding role of China’s asset markets and stock exchanges. Current and past monetary policy strategies are examined in detail as are the banking

Author: L. Gary Leal
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: transport, cambridge, series, engineering, processes, chemical, convective, phenomena, fluid, mechanics, advanced
Number of Pages: 932
Published: 2007-06-18
List price: $135.00
ISBN-10: 0521849101
ISBN-13: 9780521849104

Advanced Transport Phenomena is ideal as a graduate textbook. It contains a detailed discussion of modern analytic methods for the solution of fluid mechanics, and heat and mass transfer problems, focusing on approximations based upon scaling and asymptotic methods, beginning with the derivation of basic equations and boundary conditions and concluding with linear stability theory. Also covered are unidirectional flows, lubrication and thin-film theory, creeping flows, boundary layer theory, and convective heat and mass transport at high and low Reynolds numbers. The emphasis is on basic physi

Authors:Caroline Fery, Ruben Van De Vijver,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: theory, optimality, syllable
Number of Pages: 428
Published: 2003-01-27
List price: $117.00
ISBN-10: 0521772621
ISBN-13: 9780521772624

This book provides an overview of the role of the syllable in Optimality Theory (OT) and ways in which problems that relate to the analysis of syllable structure can be solved in OT. The contributions to the book show that the syllable not only sheds light on certain properties of OT itself. They also show that OT is capable of describing and adequately analyzing many issues that are problematic in other theories. The analyses are based on a wealth of languages.This book provides an overview of the role of the syllable in Optimality Theory (OT) and ways in which problems that relate to the a