This book was first planned as a revised edition of my What You
Should Know About Inflation, first published in 1960. But inflation,
not only in the United States but throughout the world, has since
then not only continued, but spread and…
the most important feature of the approach in this book is that it provides a theoretical structure to analyze the impact of behavioral beliefs and preferences on all asset prices through the SDF. In this respect, the approach in this paper develops…
Great bodies of men who cared intensely for a definite creed found that expression for it was lacking, even if
this creed (as in France) were that of a very large majority in the State. The "organs of opinion" professed a
genteel ignorance of that…
The study investigates customer responses to service encounters characterized by a
high degree of service providers’ assertiveness, and the individual factors moderating
the resulting responses. The first of two formal experiments examines the…
This paper explores the nature of collective action in the governance of transnational
common resources and proposes a private regimes approach for its study. Using the
example of the radio spectrum as a global resource – representing the…
I would like to thank John Maclean for his extensive and insightful
comments as well as for his guidance and supervision during my years at
the University of Sussex. Without him this book would not have been
possible. I also owe a debt of…
Game theory studies how smart, ruthless people should act and interact in strategic settings. This book will teach
you to solve games. In some games you will negotiate for a raise; in others you will strive to ensure that
an employee works as hard…
In this volume are presented examples of men who shed lustre upon ordinary pursuits, either by the superior
manner in which they exercised them or by the noble use they made of the leisure which success in them
usually gives. Such men are the…