5 Economics and Business eBooks

The Architecture of Illegal Markets: Towards an Economic Sociology of Illegality in the Economy edited by Jens Beckert, Matias Dewey
The Fall of the Euro: Reinventing the Eurozone and the Future of Global Investing by Jens Nordvig
Johan Mathew, "Margins of the Market: Trafficking and Capitalism Across the Arabian Sea"
Tax Policy and Labor Market Performance by Jonas Agell, Peter Birch Sørensen
The Fundamental Principles of EEA Law: EEA-ities By Carl Baudenbacher

The Architecture of Illegal Markets: Towards an Economic Sociology of Illegality in the Economy edited by Jens Beckert, Matias Dewey
English | October 3, 2017 | ISBN: 0198794975 | PDF | 304 pages | 5.8 MB
From illegal drugs, stolen artwork, and forged trademarks, to fraud in financial markets - the phenomenon of illegality in market exchanges is pervasive. Illegal markets have great economic significance, have relevant social and political consequences, and shape economic and political structures.
Despite the importance of illegality in the economy, the field of economic sociology unquestioningly accepts the premise that the institutional structures and exchanges taking place in markets are law-abiding in nature. This volume makes a contribution to changing this. Questions that stand at the centre of the chapters are: What are the interfaces between legal and illegal markets? How do demand and supply in illegal markets interact? What role do criminal organizations play in illegal markets? What is the relationship between illegality and governments? Is illegality a phenomenon central to capitalism?
Anchored in economic sociology, this book contributes to the analysis and understanding of market exchanges in conditions of illegality from a perspective that focuses on the social organization of markets. Offering both, theoretical reflections and case studies, the chapters assembled in the volume address the consequences of the illegal production, distribution, and consumption of products for the architecture of markets. It also focuses on the underlying causes and the political and social concerns stemming from the infringement of the law.

The Fall of the Euro: Reinventing the Eurozone and the Future of Global Investing by Jens Nordvig
English | 16 Nov. 2013 | ISBN: 007183057X | 272 Pages | PDF | 1.08 MB
From Jens Nordvig-named the #1 currency strategist in the 2013 Institutional Investor survey
What does the crisis in the Eurozone mean for our markets―and how can you protect your portfolio against crises in Europe?
Little has been written about the instability of the Euro, but it’s a very real threat to investors worldwide, as well as to the global economy. Swings in global asset markets have been increasingly driven by developments in Europe. This is something new: in the past, Europe was one of the most stable parts of the global economy, and its typically minor economic fluctuations would have little bearing on US equity markets.

Johan Mathew, "Margins of the Market: Trafficking and Capitalism Across the Arabian Sea"
2016 | ISBN-10: 0520288556, 0520288548 | 232 pages | PDF | 2 MB
What is the relationship between trafficking and free trade? Is trafficking the perfection or the perversion of free trade? Trafficking occurs thousands of times each day at borders throughout the world, yet we have come to perceive it as something quite extraordinary. How did this happen, and what role does trafficking play in capitalism? To answer these questions, Johan Mathew traces the hidden networks that operated across the Arabian Sea in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Following the entangled history of trafficking and capitalism, he explores how the Arabian Sea reveals the gaps that haunt political borders and undermine economic models. Ultimately, he shows how capitalism was forged at the margins of the free market, where governments intervened, and traffickers turned a profit.

Tax Policy and Labor Market Performance by Jonas Agell, Peter Birch Sørensen
English | August 18th, 2006 | ISBN: 0262012294 | 341 Pages | PDF | 2.72 MB
The effect of tax policies and welfare state incentives on the performance of the labor market: theoretical and empirical analyses by leading European and American economists.
High unemployment in many European OECD countries has been attributed to factors ranging from rigid wages and low job mobility to an interaction of high taxes and generous social benefits that may discourage labor force participation and encourage the growth of an underground economy. This CESifo volume analyzes the effect of tax policy and, more generally, welfare state incentives, on the performance of the labor market.
The contributors, all leading international economists, take both theoretical and empirical approaches; the book includes general overviews as well as in-depth analyses of specific policies. Some chapters take a broad perspective on taxation and labor markets, considering such topics as the effects of taxes in both the conventional model of a competitive labor market and a more realistic imperfect market, the observed work differentials between Europe and the United States, and the potential for progressive taxes and redistributive benefits to boost employment. Other chapters examine the effects of tax reforms, including the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the wage-increasing effects of progressive income taxes in a highly unionized labor market. Finally, the contributors analyze the effects of employment protection and tax penalties on the growth of the underground economy. The insights offered in these studies will be valuable to the policy analyst as well as to the academic theorist.

The Fundamental Principles of EEA Law: EEA-ities By Carl Baudenbacher
English | EPUB | 2017 | 260 Pages | ISBN : 331945188X | 684.04 KB
This book features eleven contributions on the fundamental principles of EEA law: legislative and judicial homogeneity, reciprocity, prosperity, priority, authority, loyalty, proportionality, equality, liability and sovereignty. Written by EFTA Court and national judges, high EFTA officials, private practitioners and scholars, it raises awareness of EEA law and provides insights for EEA and EU law practitioners and researchers.
It focuses on the principles at the core of EEA law, some of which are common to EU and EEA law, while others have a specific place in EEA law and some ensure consistency between the EEA Agreement and the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. It is the only book to focus on the fundamental principles of EEA law.