Economics Subject Guide
Handbooks, Manuals & Basic Texts
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Handbook of Econometrics
HB 139 .H36 1983 bk. 2 (Reference Collection) The Handbook aims to serve as a source, reference, and teaching supplement for the field of econometrics, the branch of economics concerned with the empirical estimation of economic relationships. It is intended for professional use by economists, econometricians, statisticians, and for use in advanced graduate econometrics courses.
Handbook of International Economics
HF 1411 .H257 1984 v. 1-3 (Reference Collection) The first volume of the Handbook deals with the "real side" of economics with an explanation of trade and factor flows, with their main effects on goods and factor prices, the microeconomics issues and methods. The second volume covers the "monetary side" of the subject, mainly the macroeconomic issues. The third volume combines the two "sides" of economics in one volume.
Handbook of Mathematical Economics
HB 135 .H357 vols. 1-4 (Reference Collection) The Handbook aims to provide a definitive source, Reference, and teaching supplement for the field of mathematical economics. It surveys, as of the late 1970's, the state of the art of mathematical economics.
Handbook of Monetary Economics
HG 221 .H24 1990 v. 1-2 (Reference Collection) The Handbook combines monetary theorizing and the development and exploitation of empirical evidence. Volume one discusses money in the Walrasian economy; money in Non-Walrasian settings; money in dynamic systems; money demand and money supply; and pricing non-money assets. Volume two covers money, other assets, and economic activity; money, inflation, and welfare; and monetary policy.
Labor Economics
HD 4901 .L115 1995 vols. 1-4 (Reference Collection) A selection of papers published in the field of labor economics that provides information on formal or informal theoretical development. Covered in four volumes: labor supply, labor demand, wage determination, economics of education, employment relationships and contracts, unemployment, job search, turnover and mobility, trade unions and strikes, economics of discrimination, compensating wage differentials, and migration.
Nations of the world: a political, economic & business handbook
D 32 .N37x 2007/2008 (Reference Desk Collection) This handbook contains profiles on over 230 nations divided into two major sections, country and world overviews. Each country chapter is divided into three parts: 1) country overview with key indications (five years), and country risk assessment; 2) country profiles, and 3) business directory, providing contact numbers and web sites for hotels, travel information, and chambers of commerce.