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RECENT ACQUISITIONS

January-February 2008

BOOKS

Adler, Matthew D. & Eric A. Posner. New foundations of cost-benefit analysis. Harvard University Press, 2006. 236p. (330.155 A237)

Benkler, Yochai. The wealth of networks: how social production transforms markets and freedom. Yale University Pres, 2006. 515p. (029.7 B468)

Boole, George. Studies in logic and probability. Dover, 2004; reprint of 1952 ed. 500p. (511.3 B724)

Brams, Steven J. Mathematics and democracy: designing better voting and fair-division procedures. Princeton University Press, 2008. 373p. (324.6 B816)

Conference on Research in Income and Wealth. Hard-to-measure goods and services: essays in honor of Zvi Griliches, ed. by Ernst R. Berndt & Charles R. Hulten. University of Chicago Press, for the NBER, 2007. 606p. (330.873 C748 v.67)

Debating immigration, ed. by Carol M. Swain. Cambridge University Press, 2007. 316p. (325.73 D286)

Economic and legal issues in intellectual property, ed. by Michael McAleer & Les Oxley. Blackwell, 2007. 259p. (346.04 E18)

Ekeland, Ivar. The best of all possible worlds: mathematics and destiny, ed. by Ivar Ekeland. University of Chicago Press, 2006. 207p. (510 E36)

Feinstein, Charles H., Peter Temin & Gianni Toniolo. The world economy between the wars. Oxford University Press, 2008. 222p. (330.9034 F299)

Handbook of econometrics, vol. 6A, ed. by James J. Heckman & Edward E. Leamer. North-Holland, 2007. 980p. (330.0182 H236 v.6A)

A handbook of international trade in services, ed. by Aaditya Mattoo, Robert M. Stern & Gianni Zanini. Oxford University Press, 2008. 650p. (382.45 H236)

Handbook of the equity research premium, ed. by Rajnish Mehra. North-Holland, 2008. 609p. (332.63 H236)

Hardin, Russell. One for all: the logic of group conflict. Princeton University Press, 1995. 288p. (301.1 H262)

Kenen, Peter B. & Ellen E. Meade Regional monetary integration. Cambridge University Press, 2008. 230p. (332.4 K33)

Lusk, Jayson L. & Jayson F. Shogren. Experimental auctions: methods and applications in economic and marketing research. Cambridge University Press, 2007. 304p. (330.07 L969)

Masson, Paul R. Lectures in international finance: crisis, coordination, currency unions, and debt. World Scientific, 2007. 171p. (332.042 M419)

Numerical methods for finance, ed. by John A.D. Appleby, David C. Edelman & John J.H. Miller. Chapman & Hall, 2008. 293p. (332.0151 N971)

Perloff, Jeffrey H. Microeconomics: theory and applications with calculus. Pearson Addison Wesley, 2008. 771p. (330.001 P451)

The philosophy of economics: an anthology, 3rd ed., ed. by Daniel M. Hausman. Cambridge University Press, 2008. 527p. (330.01 P568 3rd)

Ray, Debraj. A game theoretic perspective on coalition formation. Oxford University Press, 2007. 321p. (302.14 R263)

Saxenian, AnnaLee. The new argonauts: regional advantage in a global economy. Harvard University Press, 2006. 424p. (338.4 S272)

Shy, Oz. How to price: a guide to pricing techniques and yield management. Cambridge University Press, 2008. 433p. (338.52 S562)

Tax policy and the economy, v. 20, ed. by James M. Poterba. The MIT Press, for the NBER, 2006. 223p. (336.2 T235 v.20)

Tax policy and the economy, v. 21, ed. by James M. Poterba. The MIT Press, for the NBER, 2007. 184p. (336.2 T235 v.21)

Wanting it all: the challenge of reforming the U.S. health care system, ed. by Jane Sneddon Little. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 2007. 335p. (338.47 W251)

Wickens, Michael. Macroeconomic theory: a dynamic general equilibrium approach. Princeton University Press, 2008. 477p. (339 W636)

World development report 2008: agriculture for development. The World Bank, 2008. 365p. (338.9 W927 2008)

GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS

Economic Report of the President, transmitted to the Congress February 2008. U.S. Gov't Printing Office, 2008. 354p.

Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2008. Bureau of the Census and Economics and Statistics Administration, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, 2008. 994p.


March-April 2008

BOOKS

Appleyard, Dennis R., Alfred J. Field & Steven L. Cobb. International economics, 6th ed. McGraw-Hill Irwin, 2008. 804p. (338.91 A652 6th)

Ariely, Dan. Predictably irrational: the hidden forces that shape our decisions. Harper Collins, 2008. 280p. (153 A698)

Barnett, William P. The red queen among organizations: how competitiveness evolves. Princeton University Press, 2008. 279p. (338.6 B261)

Benninga, Simon. Financial modeling, 3rd ed. The MIT Press, 2008. 1133p.+ CD (332.01 B469 3rd)

Bessen, James & Michael J. Meurer. Patent failure: how judges, bureaucrats, and lawyers put innovators at risk. Princeton University Press, 2008. 331p. (346.04 B558)

Borjas, George. Labor economics, 4th ed. McGraw-Hill Irwin, 2008. 544p. (331 B734 4th)

Brock, James. The structure of American industry, 12th ed. Pearson Prentice Hall, 2008. 411p. (338.0973 B864 12th)

The CIA world factbook, 2008. Skyhorse, 2007. 801p. (Ref.)

Cohen, Bejamin J. International political economy: an intellectual history. Princeton University Press, 2008. 210p. (382.1 C678)

Credit, intermediation, and the macroeconomy: models and perspectives, ed. by Sudipto Bhattacharya, Arnoud W.A. Boot & Anjan V. Thakor. Oxford University Press, 2004. 916p. (332.7 C912)

Decentralization in infinite horizon economies, ed. by Mukul Majumdar. Westview Press, 1992. 193p. (339.04 D292)

Dornbusch, Rudiger, Stanley Fischer & Richard Startz. Macroeconomics, 10th ed. McGraw-Hill Irwin, 2008. 629p. (339 D713 10th)

Ehrentreich, Norman. Agent-based modeling: the Santa Fe Institute artificial stock market model revisited. Springer, 2008. 230p. (330.018 E33)

Financial markets volatility and performance in emerging markets, ed. by Sebastian Edwards & Marcio G.P. Garcia. University of Chicago Press, for the NBER, 2008. 287p. (332.041 F491)

Freixas, Xavier & Jean-Charles Rochet. Microeconomics of banking, 2nd ed. The MIT Press, 2008. 363p. (332.1 F866 2nd)

Gali, Jordi. Monetary policy, inflation, and the business cycle: an introduction to the new Keynesian framework. Princeton University Press, 2008. 203p. (330.156 G156)

Graham, Edward M. & David M. Marchick. U.S. national security and foreign direct investment. Institute for International Economics, 2006. 190p. (332.67 G739)

Hubbard, Douglas W. How to measure anything: finding the value of "intangibles" in business. Wiley, 2007. 287p. (657.7 H875)

Kutner, Michael H., Christopher J. Nachtscheim, John Neter & William Li. Applied linear statistical models, 5th ed. McGraw-Hill Irwin, 2005. 1396p. (519.53 K97 5th)

Marglin, Stephen A. The dismal science: how thinking like an economist undermines community. Harvard University Press, 2008. 359p. (330 M328)

Margolis, Howard. Cognition and extended rational choice. Routledge, 2007. 241p. (302.13 M329)

The measurement of productive efficiency and productivity growth, ed. by Harold O. Fried, C.A. Knox Lovell & Shelton S. Schmidt. Oxford University Press, 2008. 638p. (338.5 M484)

Mishkin, Frederic S. & Stanley G. Eakins. Financial markets and institutions, 6th ed. Pearson Addison Wesley, 2009. 710p. (332.1 M678 6th)

Models and monetary policy: research in the tradition of Dale Henderson, Richard Porter and Peter Tinsley. Federal Reserve Board, 2005. 339p. (332.46 M689)

Myerson, Roger B. Probability models for economic decisions. Thomson, 2005. 397p.+ CD. (330.0151 M996)

Political institutions and financial development, ed. by Stephen Haber, Douglass C. North & Barry R. Weingast. Stanford University Press, 2008. 304p. (332 P769)

Rochet, Jean-Charles. Why are there so many banking crises?: the politics and policy of bank regulation. Princeton University Press, 2008. 308p. (332.1 R667)

Rosen, Harvey S. & Ted Gayer. Public finance, 8th ed. McGraw-Hill Irwin, 2008. 596p. (336 R813 8th)

Thaler, Richard H. & Cass R. Sunstein. Nudge: improving decisions about health, wealth, and happiness. Yale University Press, 2008. 293p. (306.3 T365)

Wydick, Bruce. Games in economic development. Cambridge University Press, 2008. 294p. (338.9001 W978)

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