In Infinity and the Mind, Rudy Rucker leads on excursion to that stretch of the universe he calls the ``Mindscape``, where he explores infinity in all its forms: potential and actual, mathematical and physical, theological and mundane. Rucker acquaints us with Gödel`s rotating universe, in which it is theoretically possible to travel into the past, and explains an interpretation of quan....     View More Details

Advanced International Trade is the first major graduate textbook in international trade in a generation. Trade is a corner-stone concept in economics, taught in all departments both in the United States and abroad. The past twenty years have seen a number of new theoretical approaches that are essential to any graduate international trade course, and will be of interest in development ....     View More Details

Credit risk is today one of the most intensely studied topics in quantitative finance. This book provides an introduction and overview for readers who seek an up-to-date reference to the central problems of the field and to the tools currently used to analyze them. The book is aimed at researchers and students in finance, at quantitative analysts in banks and other financial institutions, and ....     View More Details

In this book, two of America`s leading economists provide the first integrated treatment of the conceptual, practical, and empirical foundations for credit risk pricing and risk measurement. Masterfully applying theory to practice, Darrell Duffie and Kenneth Singleton model credit risk for the purpose of measuring portfolio risk and pricing defaultable bonds, credit derivatives, and other secu....     View More Details

Financial econometrics is a great success story in economics. Econometrics uses data and statistical inference methods, together with structural and descriptive modeling, to address rigorous economic problems. Its development within the world of finance is quite recent and has been paralleled by a fast expansion of financial markets and an increasing variety and complexity of financial product....     View More Details

The past twenty years have seen an extraordinary growth in the use of quantitative methods in financial markets. Finance professionals now routinely use sophisticated statistical techniques in portfolio management, proprietary trading, risk management, financial consulting, and securities regulation. This graduate-level textbook is intended for PhD students, advanced MBA students, and industry....     View More Details

Hayashi's Econometrics promises to be the next great synthesis of modern econometrics. It introduces first-year Ph.D. students to standard graduate econometrics material from a modern perspective. It covers all the standard material necessary for understanding the principal techniques of econometrics from ordinary least squares through cointegration. The book is also distinctive in developing ....     View More Details

Few periods in history compare to the Great Depression. Stock market crashes, bread lines, bank runs, and wild currency speculation were worldwide phenomena-all occurring with war looming in the background. This period has provided economists with a marvelous laboratory for studying the links between economic policies and institutions and economic performance. Here, Ben S. Bernanke has gather....     View More Details

How should governments and central banks use monetary policy to create a healthy economy? In recent years a promising new approach has emerged: publicly announcing and pursuing specific targets for the rate of inflation. This book is the first in-depth study of inflation targeting. The authors examine how well variants of this approach have worked in nine countries: Germany, Switzerland, New Z....     View More Details

Liquid crystals are a phase of matter critical both in many recent scientific developments in biology, chemistry and physics and in applications such as computer displays, electronic books, and new thermometers. This fully illustrated book builds on basic scientific concepts from biology, chemistry , and physics to explore the full range of the broad and interdisciplinary field of liquid cryst....     View More Details

Global governance is here-but not where most people think. This book presents the far-reaching argument that not only should we have a new world order but that we already do. Anne-Marie Slaughter asks us to completely rethink how we view the political world. It?s not a collection of nation-states that communicate through presidents, prime ministers, foreign ministers, and the United Nations. N....     View More Details

Advanced Interational Trade is the first major graduate textbook in international trade in a generation. Trade is a corner- stone concept in economics, taught in all departments both in the United States and abroad. The past twenty years have seen a number of new theoretical approaches that are essential to any graduate international trade course, and will be of interest in development ....     View More Details

Twenty years ago, behavioral economics did not exist as a field. Most economists were deeply skeptical even antagonistic toward the idea of importing insights from psychology into their field. Today, behavioral economics has become virtually mainstream. It is well represented in prominent journals and top economics departments, and behavioral economists, including several contributors to this ....     View More Details

That market forces drive the news is not news. Whether a story appears in print, on television, or on the Internet depends on who is interested, its value to advertisers, the costs of assembling the details, and competitors` products. But in All the News That`s Fit to Sell, economist James Hamilton shows just how this happens. Furthermore, many complaints about journalism media bias, s....     View More Details

Why do you shift from walking to running at a particular speed? How can we predict transition speeds for animals of different sizes? Why must the flexible elastic of arterial walls behave differently than a rubber tube or balloon? How do leaves manage to expose a broad expanse of surface while suffering only a small fraction of the drag of flags in high winds?

The field of biomechanics ....     View More Details

On November 1, 1755-All Saints` Day-a massive earthquake struck Europe`s Iberian Peninsula and destroyed the city of Lisbon. Churches collapsed upon thousands of worshippers celebrating the holy day. Earthquakes in Human History tells the story of that calamity and other epic earthquakes. The authors, Jelle Zeilinga de Boer and Donald Theodore Sanders, recapture the power of their previ....     View More Details

Hayashi`s Econometrics promises to be the next great synthesis of modern econometrics. It introduces first-year Ph.D. students to standard graduate econometrics material from a modern perspective. It covers all the standard material necessary for understanding the principal techniques of econometrics from ordinary least squares through co integration. The book is also distincti....     View More Details

Good graphs make complex problems clear. From the weather forecast to the Dow Jones average, graphs are so ubiquitous today that it is hard to imagine a world without them. Yet they are a modern invention. This book is the first to comprehensively plot human kind?s fascinating efforts to visualize data, from a key seventeenth-century Precursor-England?s plague-driven initiative to register vit....     View More Details

When this book was written, methods of algebraic topology had caused revolutions in the world of pure algebra. To clarify the advances that had been made, Cartan and Eilenberg tried to unify the fields and to construct the frame-work of a fully fledged theory. The invasion of algebra had occurred on three fronts through the construction of cohomology theories for groups, Lie algebras, and asso....     View More Details

Geophysicist M. King Hubbert predicted in 1956 that U.S. oil production would reach its highest level in the early 1970s. Though roundly criticized by oil experts and economists, Hubbert`s prediction came true in 1970. In this revised and updated edition reflecting the latest information on the world supply of oil, Kenneth Deffeyes uses Hubbert`s methods to find that world oil production will ....     View More Details