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The analysis developed in this book follows
a few simple but unconventional ideas. Investors are assumed to exhibit the same
basic behavior during a speculative episode whether they trade stocks, real estate,
or postage stamps. This idea is…

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The aim of this book is to provide an understanding of how to
analyse and assess the performance of a company from the information
provided about it.

This book is part of the CESifo Seminar Series. The series aims to cover policy issues in economics from a largely European perspective. The books in this series are the products of the papers and intensive debates that took place during the seminars…

1. Political economy or economics is a study of mankind in
the ordinary business of life; it examines that part of
individual and social action which is most closely connected with
the attainment and with the use of the material requisites…

This book is devoted to the parametric statistical distributions of economic size
phenomena of various types—a subject that has been explored in both statistical and
economic literature for over 100 years since the publication of V. Pareto’s…

IBM is a leader in information technology, providing the hardware and software to
enable businesses to gain a competitive advantage. With research and years of
experience, IBM has always provided robust frameworks and architectures for
business…

This book was conceived several years ago when the editors, along with Drazen Prelec and Dick Thaler, spent a year as a working group at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences (CASES). When we weren’t playing volley ball or hiking, we…

Over the past decade the marketing environment has changed in a series of dramatic and far-
reaching ways. Among some of the most significant of these changes has been the emergence
of what within this book we refer to as ‘the new consumer’ and…