books about: microeconomics     books:       The Professional's Guide to Value Pricing 200010 reviews Ronald J. Baker Harcourt, 2000 This book will change your life Having read the previous edition of this book for just 20 minutes I e-mailed the author to tell him that "I have seen this book described as the most important book in the profession. Without a shadow of a doubt, it will change my life." The new chapters make this latest edition even better. Read the chapter on Total Quality Service to understand how to compete in the future. Ron Baker will ...             The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing: A Guide to Growing More Profitably (4th Edition) (Pie)41 reviews Thomas T. Nagle, John Hogan Prentice Hall, 2005 GRATE BOOK If you are an enterpreneur and you want to know how to price your product, don't look any further this is the book you are looking for. The chapter about costs has an MBA level and it will give you a lot of good ideas of how to improve your busines operation.             The Economics of Microfinance9 reviews Beatriz Armendáriz, Jonathan Morduch The MIT Press, 2007 An eye opener To those that, as i am, have an Economics background and are just grasping the all immense universe that microfinance is becoming, this book opens perspectives and clears some very important issues. Issues such as the value of interest charging or the many different ways there actually are to build a microfinance initiative or the value of professional dedication to make it an effective and ...             The Art of Pricing: How to Find the Hidden Profits to Grow Your Business19 reviews Rafi Mohammed Crown Business, 2005 Advice that Can Instantly Increase Profits Rafi's treatment of the subject of pricing was just what I needed to open my eyes to a whole new set of strategies for increasing profits. As a former Corporate Engineer and Manager turned entrepreneur, I needed a more thorough understanding of pricing and found exactly what I was looking for in The Art of Pricing. I appreciated the easy to read and entertaining writing style along with the ...             Micromotives and Macrobehavior (Fels Lectures on Public Policy Analysis)16 reviews Thomas C. Schelling W. W. Norton, 1978 The Golden Rule and Self-Restraint Schelling's book covertly drafts a model of economic support for the Golden Rule. While many of his examples may be repetitive, ultimately, we learn that by restraining ourselves in various enterprises, such as energy conservation, we are able to produce overall benefits for society. However, the hitch is that without critical mass or some basis for keeping rebels in line, no one adheres to the ...             Managerial Economics & Business Strategy9 reviews Michael R. Baye McGraw-Hill Companies, 2002 Great Service!! I ordered the book and requested to receive it on the next day. I recieved it the next day!! It doesn't get any better than that!! Thanks Amazon!             Reinventing the Bazaar: A Natural History of Markets15 reviews John McMillan W. W. Norton & Company, 2003 Finally, a reasonable, non-ideological book about markets I had never expected to give a 5-star review to a book about markets. But this book is a very even-handed description, favoring a case-by-case approach to "market design". Government is neither all bad nor all good, and markets are neither all good nor all bad, in this view. Nor does McMillan wrap markets in the mantles of politics and/or religion, a la Milton Friedman, George Gilder and others. ...             The Business Playbook: Leadership Lessons From the World of Sports36 reviews Brandon Steiner Entrepreneur Press, 2003 It's not the game, its the GAME PLAN!! I was lucky enough to read this book after the CEO of my company asked me to purchase it and write him up a quick synopis. It was a quick but powerful read and by the end of that same weekend my senses were ablaze with newly kindled hope and inspiration! Brandon Steiner has a great sense of motivational ability, and unlike some who give advice with an heir of condescension, he has an amazing ...             Principles of Macroeconomics27 reviews N. Gregory Mankiw Harcourt College Pub, 1998 The best intermediate macro book As an instructor of introductory macroeconomics, I often rue the fact that we do not utilize this textbook. I borrow material from it INCESSANTLY and without shame. It presents the "Keynesian" viewpoint on macroeconomics in an extraordinarily clear and interesting fashion. Frankly, I consider the introductory (read literally - first semester macro books) texts to be a waste of time. There is ...             Managerial Economics: A Problem Solving Approach (Thomas South-Western's Mba Series in Economics)22 reviews Luke M. Froeb, Brian T. McCann South-Western College Pub, 2007 Exponential consumer surplus This book is a great read for beginners and experts alike. Its easy-to-relate examples make sure the message gets across - how to solve business problems using micro-economics. The book is full of "easy to apply" tools in various situations. If you have read this book, your approach to problem solving will never be the same again! Highly recommended!             The Liberty Dollar SOLUTION To the Federal Reserve6 reviews Bernard von NotHaus, Clifford Thies American Financial Press, 2004 Goldmine of information About three years ago, while reading Otto Skinner's 'The Biggest "Tax Loophole" of All', I became aware of the phenomenon known as fractional reserve banking. Why is it a phenomenon? Essentially, fractional reserve banking is the ability to create money out of thin air. Or more accurately, the license to create money out of thin air. Black's Law Dictionary defines "license" as, "The permission by ...             Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 1287 reviews AnnaLee Saxenian Harvard University Press, 1994 Excellent Structural Analysis Contrary to one of the other reviewer's comments, the importance of this book is in showing precicely that it is not the "endemic" culture of Silicon Valley, but rather the innovative institutions and networked relationships in Silicon Valley that explains the region's success. A great contribution to the literature on embeddedness and network forms of organization.             Are Predatory Commitments Credible?: Who Should the Courts Believe?7 reviews John R. Jr Lott University Of Chicago Press, 1999 Terrific book If you like logical discussions that lead to insights you had not anticipated, this is a book you will enjoy. One such insight is that the predatory commitments of government agencies are likely to be more credible than the predatory commitments of private firms. Lott's book is one of those infrequently found books that requires that you sip a glass of wine as you read one chapter each ...             Unstoppable: Finding Hidden Assets to Renew the Core and Fuel Profitable Growth8 reviews Harvard Business School Press, 2007 Pogo was right. In two previously published books, Profit from the Core (2001) and then Beyond the Core (2004), Chris Zook shares what several years of extensive and intensive research revealed about "how companies fail to recognize the potential of their core business and, as a result, prematurely abandon it in pursuit of hot markets or sexy new ideas, only to realize their error - often, when it is too late." ...             The Year of the Great Crash, 19296 reviews William K. Klingaman Harpercollins, 1991 An absorbing reading experience I read this book because I so enjoyed reading the author's 1941: Our Lives in a World on the Edge, which I finished reading 29 Nov 1997. This book is just as good. This is not academic history, but Klingaman weaves from other books and contemporary sources an account of the time from Election Day in 1928 till mid-1930, and does a superlative job. He does not tell what happens in the future but ...             Microeconomics6 reviews David Besanko John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2002 Industry related, application oriented, no calculus required I use this book to teach Intermediate Micro (although I can only cover the first 13 chapters in the book). The book is very decent (not perfect, but better than the others that I examined - actually, depends on the type of students, but if you are not in a community college or in a research school, this book is the closest to what it should be). Rigorous, clear, lots of industry related ...             The Price is Wrong: Understanding What Makes a Price Seem Fair and the True Cost of Unfair Pricing8 reviews Sarah Maxwell Wiley, 2008 This Book Will Help You Maximize Your Profits Every transaction you have with a customer can be the start (or continuation) of a long and profitable relationship. This is why ensuring that customers feel that your price is fair is so important. Fairness should be an integral part of every pricing decision. In her book, Dr. Maxwell shows companies how to incorporate the concept of fairness into their pricing strategy to help maximize ...             Six Sigma Pricing8 reviews FT Press, 2008 Six Sigma Pricing Pricing, getting it "right" and positioning a company with a cohesive plan to address this critical process is always a challenge. While some may think of Six Sigma as a cold, clinical tool (which it can be), the authors get it right with Six Sigma Pricing. From my perspective, the volatile economic environment in which we find ourselves operating today, with the Euro surging past US$1.55, ...             Small is Possible: Life in a Local Economy6 reviews Lyle Estill New Society Publishers, 2008 After reading "Collapse", read this! It is easy to be overwhelmed with the doom and gloom consequences of American's thoroughly unsustainable lifestyle: climate change, pollution of air, water, and soil, declining ecosystems, and the very real risk that in 60 years, nobody will be living what we today consider to be a first-world lifestyle. What to do? For starters, read Lyle Estill's Small Is Possible, a wonderful collection of ...             Time Series Models for Business and Economic Forecasting (Themes in Modern Econometrics)6 reviews Philip Hans Franses Cambridge University Press, 1999 Excellent introductory book on economic time series modeling Recently, I reread Franses book and expanded my review, which now includes 10 benefits. (1) Organization by key features of economic time series (trends, seasonality, outliers, conditional heteroskedasticity, non-linearity), rather than by methods, which provides a practical foundation for the various methodologies. 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