This book develops an original theory of group and organizational behavior that cuts across disciplinary lines and illustrates the theory with empirical and historical studies of particular organizations. Applying economic analysis to the subjects of the political scientist, sociologist, and economist, Mr. Olson examines the extent to which the individuals that share a common interest find it in their individual interest to bear the costs of the organizational effort.
The theory shows that most organizations produce what the economist calls "public goods"--goods or services that are available to every member, whether or not he has borne any of the costs of providing them. Economists have long understood that defense, law and order were public goods that could not be marketed to individuals, and that taxation was necessary. They have not, however, taken account of the fact that private as well as governmental organizations produce public goods.

危机之后的反思——
·激励机制如何发挥作用？
·自由市场会产生什么风险？
·政府应当如何干预？
·市场和政府分别应该扮演什么样的角色？
我们需要——
·基于现实的经济学
《经济学人》、《纽约时报》、《金融时报》、《纽约书评》、彭博……共同推荐阅读！
作者是华尔街顶尖的财经记者。他在本书的第一部分对弗里德曼和芝加哥学派的自由市场观念进行了理论上的批判，将其称之为“乌托邦经济学”。在第二部分，他详细阐述了自己的替代论，将之称为“基于现实的经济学”。根据这两种不同的经济学，他在第三部分对2007～2009年的金融危机进行了细致的分析，指出金融危机是私人企业在放松管制条件下进行决定的结果。
本书没有简单地罗列危机事件，而是将它们置于一个学术和历史的框架中进行考量：亚当·斯密是如何演变为格林斯潘的？卡西迪通过一种独具匠心的结构，为我们讲述了自由市场思想起起落落的故事。他的考察范围从哈耶克到弗里德曼，从凯恩斯到马克思，涉猎极为广泛。
本书既是政策制定者、意见领袖以及学术同仁的必读之书，也是那些真正想了解过去与未来的人的理想选择。

明清时，中国没有发生欧美“工业革命”那种以机器大规模生产的经济变化，清末以前也并未出现“民主宪政”之类的法律与政治改革运动，但是仍然出现许多有意义的社会变迁。本书有系统地描述并论证明清中国经济与法律的发展历程及其历史意义，点出探究明清经济史的重要意义，提出明清中国也有商业法律的主张。
本书为使读者能容易理解当时中国经济与法律互动的复杂性，先介绍十六至十九世纪之间的中国经济变动趋势，以下各章展开对明清中国商业法律的说明与分析。作者将研究视角做了较大范围的扩充，不仅讨论处理市场交易、商事纠纷与商业契约的法律规范本身，也分析当时中国用以运作商业法律的制度变迁，更进一步将“非西方”地区的历史完整地纳入，以说明一些重要的经济与法律变迁究竟是如何逐渐由明清中国部分地区往外扩散至全国，进而改写了既有的近代世界经济史。

《基于实践的微观经济学》为当代经济学译库系列丛书之一。《基于实践的微观经济学》集中探讨了经验研究对于微观经济进一步发展的必要性，分别论述了决策理性、组织在经济中的作用和经济学的经验证据。

Every day, we make decisions on topics ranging from personal investments to schools for our children to the meals we eat to the causes we champion. Unfortunately, we often choose poorly. The reason, the authors explain, is that, being human, we all are susceptible to various biases that can lead us to blunder. Our mistakes make us poorer and less healthy; we often make bad decisions involving education, personal finance, health care, mortgages and credit cards, the family, and even the planet itself. Thaler and Sunstein invite us to enter an alternative world, one that takes our humanness as a given. They show that by knowing how people think, we can design choice environments that make it easier for people to choose what is best for themselves, their families, and their society. Using colorful examples from the most important aspects of life, Thaler and Sunstein demonstrate how thoughtful choice architecture” can be established to nudge us in beneficial directions without restricting freedom of choice. Nudge offers a unique new takefrom neither the left nor the righton many hot-button issues, for individuals and governments alike. This is one of the most engaging and provocative books to come along in many years. (20080518)

The core methods in today's econometric toolkit are linear regression for statistical control, instrumental variables methods for the analysis of natural experiments, and differences-in-differences methods that exploit policy changes. In the modern experimentalist paradigm, these techniques address clear causal questions such as: Do smaller classes increase learning? Should wife batterers be arrested? How much does education raise wages? Mostly Harmless Econometrics shows how the basic tools of applied econometrics allow the data to speak.
In addition to econometric essentials, Mostly Harmless Econometrics covers important new extensions--regression-discontinuity designs and quantile regression--as well as how to get standard errors right. Joshua Angrist and Jörn-Steffen Pischke explain why fancier econometric techniques are typically unnecessary and even dangerous. The applied econometric methods emphasized in this book are easy to use and relevant for many areas of contemporary social science.
* An irreverent review of econometric essentials
* A focus on tools that applied researchers use most
* Chapters on regression-discontinuity designs, quantile regression, and standard errors
* Many empirical examples
* A clear and concise resource with wide applications

In these notes, Professor Kreps surveys the standard models of choice under uncertainty that lie at the heart of microeconomic theory. Choice and preference, ordinal utility, von Neumann-Morganstern utility and utility functions for money, and subjective probability and subjective expected utility are among the standard topics covered. These notes provide a rigorous but accessible introduction to the theory of choice for mathematically inclined undergraduates and/or graduate students in economics, finance, and related disciplines.

Fisher was one of America’s greatest mathematical economists. This book is still used a textbook and is an outstanding example of clearly written economic theory.

Game theory has revolutionized economics research and teaching during the past two decades. There are few undergraduate or graduate courses in which it does not form a core component. Game theory is the study of multi-decision problems and such problems occur frequently in economics. Industrial organization provides many examples where firms must consider the reactions of others. But there are many other areas in which it is applicable - from individual workers vying for promotion to countries competing or colluding to choose trade policies. Bob Gibbons provides an introduction to the branches of game theory that have been widely applied in economics. He emphasizes the applications as much as the pure theory. This not only helps to teach the theory, but also illustrates the process of model building - the process of translating an informal description of a multi-person decision situation into a formal, game theoretic problem to be analyzed. The approach aims to serve as both an introduction to those who will go on to specialize as pure game-theorists. It also introduces game theory to those who will later construct (or at least use) game-theoretic models in applied fields of economics.

This text provides a unified treatment of modern econometric theory and practical econometric methods. The geometrical approach to least squares is emphasized, as is the method of moments, which is used to motivate a wide variety of estimators and tests. Simulation methods, including the bootstrap, are introduced early and used extensively. The book deals with a large number of modern topics. In addition to bootstrap and Monte Carlo tests, these include sandwich covariance matrix estimators, artificial regressions, estimating functions and the generalized method of moments, indirect inference, and kernel estimation. Every chapter incorporates numerous exercises, some theoretical, some empirical, and many involving simulation. Econometric Theory and Methods is designed for beginning graduate courses. The book is suitable for both one- and two-term courses at the Masters or Ph.D. level. It can also be used in a final-year undergraduate course for students with sufficient backgrounds in mathematics and statistics.

This advanced text introduces the principles of noncooperative game theory - including strategic form games, Nash equilibria, subgame perfection, repeated games, and games of incomplete information - in a direct and uncomplicated style that will acquaint students with the broad spectrum of the field while highlighting and explaining what they need to know at any given point. The analytic material is accompanied by many applications, examples, and exercises.The theory of noncooperative games studies the behavior of agents in any situation where each agent's optimal choice may depend on a forecast of the opponents' choices. "Noncooperative" refers to choices that are based on the participant's perceived selfinterest. Although game theory has been applied to many fields, Fudenberg and Tirole focus on the kinds of game theory that have been most useful in the study of economic problems. They also include some applications to political science. The fourteen chapters are grouped in parts that cover static games of complete information, dynamic games of complete information, static games of incomplete information, dynamic games of incomplete information, and advanced topics.Drew Fudenberg and Jean Tirole are Professors of Economics at MIT.

"Advanced International Trade" is the first major graduate textbook in international trade in a generation. Trade is a cornerstone 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 economics and other fields. Here, Robert Feenstra steps beyond theory to consider empirical evidence as well. He covers all the basic material including the Ricardian and Hecksher-Ohlin models, extension to many goods and factors, and the role of tariffs, quotas, and other trade policies; recent material including imperfect competition, outsourcing, political economy, multinationals, and endogenous growth; and new material including the gravity equation and the organization of the firm in international trade. Throughout the book, special emphasis is placed on integrating the theoretical models with empirical evidence, and this is supplemented by theoretical and empirical exercises that appear with each chapter. "Advanced International Trade" is intended to bring readers to the forefront of knowledge in international trade and prepare them to undertake their own research. Both graduate students and faculty will find a wealth of topics that have previously only been covered in journal articles, and are dealt with here in a common and simple notation. In addition to known results, the book includes some particularly important unpublished results by various authors. Two appendices describe empirical methods applicable to research problems in international trade, methods that draw on index numbers and discrete choice models. Thoroughly up-to-date and marked by clear, straightforward prose, this book will be used widely - and enthusiastically.

This book lays out foundations for a "science of morals." Binmore uses game theory as a systematic tool for investigating ethical matters. He reinterprets classical social contract ideas within a game-theory framework and generates new insights into the fundamental questions of social philosophy. In contrast to the previous writing in moral philosophy that relied on vague notion such as " societal well-being" and "moral duty," Binmore begins with individuals; rational decision-makers with the ability to emphasize with one another. Any social arrangement that prescribes them to act against their interests will become unstable and eventually will be replaced by another, until one is found that includes worthwhile actions for all individuals involved.

《变革中国:市场经济的中国之路》是新制度经济学鼻祖、产权理论的创始人、102岁的诺贝尔经济学家得主科斯讲述的一个有着中国特色的独特故事。在过去30年里，中国从一个市场和企业精神被禁锢而贫困潦倒的国度，成功地转型为一个市场开放、私企盛行的全球经济重镇。改革伊始，中国领导人痛定思痛，解放思想，实事求是，在坚守社会主义立场的同时，官方和民间改革并举，共同打造“中国特色社会主义市场经济”。
《变革中国:市场经济的中国之路》向世人揭示这一切的来龙去脉。它展现给读者中国走向现代市场经济的曲折险途和波澜历程。作者以实地调研为基础，参考国内外众多文献，根据多年对中国经济发展的跟踪观察和对市场经济的长期理论思考，直笔而书，成就中国改革一家之言。
《变革中国：市场经济的中国之路》基于作者长期以来对中国经济的跟踪观察和研究，从毛泽东时代谈起，完整地梳理了中国如何从一个市场和企业精神被禁锢的国度，成功转型为一个市场开放的全球经济重镇，以及这个过程中经历的曲折和波澜，同时针对存在的问题，对中国经济的未来提出了诊断和预测。
作为新制度经济学和产权理论、交易成本的创始人，科斯教授是20世纪以来最重要的经济学大师之一，是对中国经济发展产生直接影响的最重要的经济学家。国内众多的顶尖学者也深受其影响，诸如张五常、吴敬琏、周其仁、张维迎、盛洪、向松祚等，从而影响了中国经济发展的进程。2008年，科斯遍邀全球著名经济学家如蒙代尔、诺斯、福格尔，以及中国的经济学家、企业家和政府官员等，组织了“中国经济制度变革三十周年国际学术研讨会”。张五常著名的《中国的经济制度》，即根据这次研讨会的主题论文整理而成。
可以说，《变革中国》是经济版的《论中国》，文字通俗，可读性极佳。相比于国内作者，科斯教授的立场更独立，叙述更客观、更有说服力。相比于国外的其他经济学家，科斯教授长期以来跟踪研究中国经济，他的叙述更全面更深刻。

Alchian is also known for his textbook, University Economics (now called Exchange and Production), coauthored with William R. Allen. That text is unique in economics. It is much more literary and humorous than any other modern economics textbook that deals with complex issues for an undergraduate audience.
Because of its literary quality and complexity, their text generally did not work with undergraduate or even M.B.A. classes. But its impact was out of all proportion to its sales. Many graduate students, particularly at the University of California at Los Angeles, where Alchian has taught since 1964, and at the University of Washington (where Alchian student Steven Cheung taught), learned their basic economics from this book. Some of the University of Washington students went on to write best-selling textbooks that made many of Alchian and Allen's insights more understandable to an undergraduate audience. Alchian and Allen's textbook was truly a public good, a good that created large benefits for which its creators could not charge. And while Alchian played the role of selfish cynic in his class, some who studied under him had the feeling that he put so much care and work into his low-selling text—and into his students—because of his concern for humanity.

本书是一本经典的数理经济学教科书，自首次出版以来已获得国内外使用者的广泛认可。本书涵盖以下主要内容：静态（均衡）分析、比较静态分析、最优化问题、动态分析，结合数学方法在经济学中的应用，由浅入深、循序渐进地阐述了矩阵代数、导数与微分、积分学、微分方程与差分方程、最优控制理论等经济学中使用的主要数学方法。全书省略了过于艰深的数学证明，而将重点放在数学方法的经济应用上，书中穿插了大量的例题与习题，从而适用于致力于学习基本数学方法的经济学专业的学生，也适于学生自学。
在保持以前版本的主要目的、风格、结构的基础上，本版（第4版）主要做了以下改进：一是将数学规划问题放在第13章（“最优化问题”部分的最后一章），定名为“最优化问题的其他主题”；二是新增了关于最优控制理论的内容（第20章）；另外，对部分习题也进行了重新编排，使其在帮助巩固所学知识的同时，更能激发学生的自信，给予学生更好表现能力的机会。

农业与工业化，ISBN：9787508632001，作者：张培刚 著