5 Economics and Business eBooks

Stephen Morris, Nancy Devlin, "Economic Analysis in Healthcare (2nd edition)"
Bhu Srinivasan, "Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism"
Big Data and Analytics Applications in Government: Current Practices and Future Opportunities (Data Analytics Applications) by Gregory Richards
Mark R. Wilson, "Destructive Creation: American Business and the Winning of World War II "
Lecture Notes In Fixed Income Fundamentals, Volume 2

Stephen Morris, Nancy Devlin, "Economic Analysis in Healthcare (2nd edition)"
2012 | ISBN-10: 1119951496 | 402 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Economic Analysis in Health Care, Second Edition is intended as a core textbook for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of health economics. The authors provide comprehensive coverage of the field of economics in health care and the evaluation of health care technologies.
This new edition has been fully updated with up-to-date case studies from the UK, Europe and the Rest of the World. It includes a new chapter on health care labour markets and contains new material integrated throughout the text on the economics of public health.
Adopts an international perspective towards topics in health economics
Creates a useful balance of theoretical treatment and practical application throughout the book
Focuses on both market-related and economic evaluation aspects of health economics.

Bhu Srinivasan, "Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism"
ASIN: B01N5X436J, ISBN: 0399563792 | 2017 | AZW3 | 576 pages | 2 MB
“A delightful tour through the businesses and industries that turned America into the biggest economy in the world. . . . An excellent book.”—The Economist
From the days of the Mayflower and the Virginia Company, America has been a place for people to dream, invent, build, tinker, and bet the farm in pursuit of a better life. Americana takes us on a four-hundred-year journey of this spirit of innovation and ambition through a series of Next Big Things - the inventions, techniques, and industries that drove American history forward: from the telegraph, the railroad, guns, radio, and banking to flight, suburbia, and sneakers, culminating with the Internet and mobile technology at the turn of the twenty-first century. The result is a thrilling alternative history of modern America that reframes events, trends, and people we thought we knew through the prism of the value that, for better or for worse, this nation holds dearest: capitalism.
In a winning, accessible style, Bhu Srinivasan boldly takes on four centuries of American enterprise, revealing the unexpected connections that link them. We learn how Andrew Carnegie's early job as a telegraph messenger boy paved the way for his leadership of the steel empire that would make him one of the nation's richest men; how the gunmaker Remington reinvented itself in the postwar years to sell typewriters; how the inner workings of the Mafia mirrored the trend of consolidation and regulation in more traditional business; and how a 1950s infrastructure bill triggered a series of events that produced one of America's most enduring brands: KFC. Reliving the heady early days of Silicon Valley, we are reminded that the start-up is an idea as old as America itself.
Entertaining, eye-opening, and sweeping in its reach, Americana is an exhilarating new work of narrative history.

Big Data and Analytics Applications in Government: Current Practices and Future Opportunities (Data Analytics Applications) by Gregory Richards
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1498764347 | 230 pages | EPUB | 2,6 MB
Public Sector organizations represent an important aspect of the economy of most countries, ranging from 30-40% of GDP. The application of Big Data and Analytics (BDA) techniques can greatly enhance the efficiency of these organizations, but it is early days yet for public managers who might not really understand what BDA is and how to apply it. This book represents a global repository of case studies along with academic and practitioner viewpoints on the application of BDA in public sector agencies. Learn about the most recent advances in the application of BDA, the challenges, the opportunities and the outcomes of applying new technologies and techniques to improve program delivery.

Mark R. Wilson, "Destructive Creation: American Business and the Winning of World War II "
ISBN: 0812248333 | 2016 | EPUB | 392 pages | 3 MB
During World War II, the United States helped vanquish the Axis powers by converting its enormous economic capacities into military might. Producing nearly two-thirds of all the munitions used by Allied forces, American industry became what President Franklin D. Roosevelt called "the arsenal of democracy." Crucial in this effort were business leaders. Some of these captains of industry went to Washington to coordinate the mobilization, while others led their companies to churn out weapons. In this way, the private sector won the war—or so the story goes.
Based on new research in business and military archives, Destructive Creation shows that the enormous mobilization effort relied not only on the capacities of private companies but also on massive public investment and robust government regulation. This public-private partnership involved plenty of government-business cooperation, but it also generated antagonism in the American business community that had lasting repercussions for American politics. Many business leaders, still engaged in political battles against the New Deal, regarded the wartime government as an overreaching regulator and a threatening rival. In response, they mounted an aggressive campaign that touted the achievements of for-profit firms while dismissing the value of public-sector contributions. This probusiness story about mobilization was a political success, not just during the war, but afterward, as it shaped reconversion policy and the transformation of the American military-industrial complex.
Offering a groundbreaking account of the inner workings of the "arsenal of democracy," Destructive Creation also suggests how the struggle to define its heroes and villains has continued to shape economic and political development to the present day.

Lecture Notes In Fixed Income Fundamentals, Volume 2
World Scientific | English | 2017 | ISBN-10: 9813149752 | 268 pages | PDF | 8.81 mb
by Eliezer Z Prisman (Author)
Written for undergraduates, this book is dedicated to fixed income fundamentals that do not require modeling the dynamics of interest rates. The book concentrates on understanding and explaining the pillars of fixed income markets, using the modern finance approach implied by the 'no free lunch' condition. It focuses on conceptual understanding so that novice readers will be familiar with tools needed to analyze bond markets. Institutional information is covered only to the extent that is necessary to obtain full appreciation of concepts.This volume will equip readers with a solid and intuitive understanding of the No Arbitrage Condition — its link to the existence and estimation of the term structure of interest rates, and to valuation of financial contracts. Using the modern approach of arbitrage arguments, the book addresses positions and contracts that do not require modeling evolution of interest rates. As such, it welcomes readers lacking the technical background for this modeling, and provides them with good intuition for interest rates, no arbitrage condition, bond markets and certain financial contracts.