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"C. Douglas Dillon--heir to a vast investment banking fortune, and one of the richest men in America during his political career--was a Republican who served in a Democratic administration, and became one of the greatest modern treasury secretaries. He believed in bipartisanship and public duty, a sensibility that has all but faded from the current political climate. With exclusive access to the family's archive, in The Dillon Era Richard Aldous sets fresh eyes on a well-documented period in recent American history, unfolding a deeply influential but somewhat overlooked political career. In 1953 President Eisenhower appointed Dillon as ambassador to Paris and promoted him to second in command in the State Department. Tapped by Presidents Kennedy and Johnson for treasury secretary to reassure Wall Street that the nation's finances were in safe hands, Dillon would become one of President Kennedy's closest advisors, and perhaps the only cabinet member who was a personal friend. His impact on the Kennedy and Johnson administrations was immense, not least in delivering the most comprehensive income tax cuts the nation had ever seen. Overseas, he worked to sustain political cooperation as the Bretton Woods system threatened to unravel. By the time he left office in 1965, the Washington Post recognized Dillon as "by far the best Secretary of the Treasury of the postwar period," and European Community president Walter Hallstein hailed a new "Dillon era." Dillon advocated for evolution and reform over radicalism, and he placed the national interest above party interest. The Dillon Era throws new light on the postwar period, identifying Dillon as a pivotal figure in American policymaking during these crucial years in the Cold War."-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• Origins
• New Deal Washington
• The second Chicago School
• Conscience of a conservative
• The great inflation
• The age of monetarism
• Epilogue: Helicopter drop.

"A biography of the American economist Milton Friedman"-- Provided by publisher.
Milton Friedman's work was instrumental in the turn toward free markets that defined the 1980's, and his defenses of capitalism and freedom resonated with audiences around the world. Burns tells his extraordinary story, providing context for his groundbreaking work on everything from why dentists earn less than doctors, to the causes of the Great Depression, to the vital importance of the money supply, to inflation and the limits of government planning and stimulus. In exploring Friedman's key role in creating a new economic vision and a modern American conservatism, she provides a revelatory biography of an architect of our times. -- adapted from jacket

• François Quesnay : social classes in a "rich agricultural kingdom"
• Adam Smith : "progress of opulence" and an implicit theory of income distribution
• The Ricardian Windfall : David Ricardo and the absence of the equity-efficiency trade-off
• Karl Marx : the decreasing rate of profit, but constant pressure on labor incomes
• Vilfredo Pareto : from classes to individuals
• Simon Kuznets : inequality during modernization
• The long eclipse of inequality studies during the Cold War.

"Today's inequality discourse has a fascinating and illuminating 300-year history. Branko Milanovic describes the evolution of the idea of inequality through portraits of six key economists, from Quesnay to Kuznets. In their work and lives, we see the rise and consolidation of the theory of social class, followed by its twentieth-century eclipse"-- Provided by publisher.

• Cover
• Contents
• Preface
• 1. Introduction: Structural Econometric Modeling
• 1.1 Model
• 1.1.1 Scientific Model and Economic Model
• 1.1.2 Predictive Model and Causal Model
• 1.2 Econometrics
• 1.3 Structure
• 1.4 Debate around the Structural Econometric Modeling Approach
• 1.5 Outline of This Book
• 2. Static and Dynamic Discrete Choice
• 2.1 Binary Choice
• 2.1.1 Motivation: Linear Probability Model
• 2.1.2 Binary Logit and Binary Probit Model
• 2.1.3 Marginal Effects
• 2.2 Multiple Choice: Random Utility Maximization Framework

• 2.2.1 Preliminary Results: Type I Extreme Value Distribution and Its Properties
• 2.2.2 The Simple Logit Model
• 2.2.3 Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives and the Nested Logit Model
• 2.2.4 Discussion
• 2.3 Single-Agent Dynamic Discrete Choice
• 2.3.1 Full-Solution Method with Fixed-Point Iteration
• 2.3.2 Estimation with Conditional Choice Probability Inversion
• 2.3.3 Nested Pseudo-Likelihood Estimation
• 2.3.4 Extension to Incorporate Unobserved State Variables
• 2.3.5 (Non)-identification of the Discount Factor
• 3. Demand Estimation Using Market-Level Data

• 3.1 Product-Space Approach
• 3.1.1 Linear and Log-Linear Demand Model
• 3.1.2 The Almost Ideal Demand System
• 3.1.3 Further Discussion of the Product-Space Approach
• 3.2 Characteristics-Space Approach I: Static Logit Demand Models
• 3.2.1 Microfoundation: Discrete-Choice Random Utility Maximization
• 3.2.2 Logit Demand Models with Aggregate Market Data
• 3.2.3 Further Discussion of the Static Logit Demand Models
• 3.3 Characteristics-Space Approach II: Extensions of the Static Logit Demand Models
• 3.3.1 Accommodating Zero Market Shares

• 3.3.2 Characteristics-Space Approach without Random Utility Shocks
• 4. Estimation of Discrete-Game Models
• 4.1 Estimation of Discrete-Game Models with Cross-Sectional Data
• 4.1.1 Static Discrete Games with Complete Information
• 4.1.2 Static Discrete Games with Incomplete Information
• 4.1.3 Further Discussion of the Estimation of Game Models with Cross-Sectional Data
• 4.2 Estimation of Dynamic Discrete-Game Models
• 4.2.1 Industry Dynamics in an Oligopolistic Market and the Markov Perfect Equilibrium
• 4.2.2 Estimation Frameworks of Dynamic Discrete Games

• 4.2.3 Further Issues and Discussion of Dynamic Game Models Estimation
• 5. Empirical Frameworks of Consumer Search
• 5.1 Utility Specification and Some Preliminary Results
• 5.1.1 Utility Specification in Consumer Search Models
• 5.1.2 Some Preliminary Results on Stochastic Dominance
• 5.2 Classical Search-Theoretic Models: Sequential Search and Simultaneous Search
• 5.2.1 Sequential Search
• 5.2.2 Simultaneous Search
• 5.3 Price Dispersion in the Market Equilibrium and Search Cost Identification with Price Data

"The widespread view that risk is highly relevant in late modern societies has also meant that the very study of risk has become central in many areas of social studies. The key aim of this book is to establish Risk Discourse as a field of research of its own in language studies. Risk Discourse is introduced as a field that not only targets elements of risk, safety and security, but crucially requires aspects of responsibility for in-depth analysis. Providing a rich illustration of ways in which risk and responsibility can serve as analytical tools, the volume brings together scholars from different disciplines within the study of language. An Introduction and an Epilogue highlight the intricate relationship between risk and responsibility. Part 1 deals with expert and lay perspectives on risk; Part 2 with emerging genres for risk discourse; Part 3 with risk and technology and Part 4 with ways of managing risk. The topics covered-such as COVID-19, nuclear energy, machine translation, terrorism-are socially pertinent and timely"-- Provided by publisher.

• L'économie : objet de la modernité, catégorie des sciences sociales et lieu d'intervention de l'État
• Les économistes font-ils la réalité économique ?
• La mise en forme des entités collectives
• Démocratie et nécessité
• Allier transformation historique et approche microsociologique
• Comment enquêter sur une entité émergente ?
• Suivre l'économie française à la trace
• 1. L'économie a-t-elle une date de naissance ?
• L'économie : un objet du XVIIIe ou du XXe siècle ?
• L'autonomisation des sphères
• La nationalisation des sphères
• À chaque sphère ses savoirs
• Économie agissante, économie agie : un modèle analytique
• 2. Les laboratoires de l'économie française
• L'économie nationale : une instabilité institutionnelle
• Cartographie de la France et approche sectorielle : la composition de l'économie
• Penser le cycle des affaires : la dynamique de l'économie
• Les estimations du revenu national : la mesure de l'économie
• Le planisme et la crise des années 1930 : la politique de l'économie
• La représentation des intérêts : l'économie représentée
• L'économie française, un amas hétérogène
• 3. Structure et grandeur de l'économie
• Structure de l'économie française
• Grandeur de l'économie française
• La circulation du concept d'économie française
• La consistance de l'économie française
• 4. La mise en causes
• Une petite équipe d'ingénieurs
• Pratiques de l'économie
• Sélection et qualification
• Une politique de laboratoire
• Interdépendance et événements extérieurs
• Politique économique, politique de l'économie
• 5. Dans quoi le chiffre est-il pris ?
• Discuter de l'économie... ou discuter d'un modèle ?
• Y avait-il d'autres "options" ?
• L'économie française par ses dispositifs
• 6. La crise de la prévision
• Prévoir en période de crise : la multiplication des lieux de prévision
• Un ethos professionnel civique et descriptif
• La transformation de l'expertise économique d'État
• Le retournement de l'économie française
• D'un arrangement historique à un autre
• Le désencastrement de l'expertise économique
• L'émergence des économies nationales, un processus transnational et continu
• Lignes de fuite.

"Comment se porte l'économie française ? Est-elle grippée ? En forme ? Des analystes saluent ses élans de croissance, auscultent ses ralentissements, relèvent les signes avant-coureurs de crise. Des indicateurs devenus familiers, tel le PIB, lui donnent sa consistance. La notion d'économie nationale n'a pourtant rien de naturel. Elle est le produit d'un lent travail d'institutionnalisation entrepris durant l'entre-deux-guerres dans l'espoir de redonner à l'État une marge de manœuvre, de lui fournir de nouveaux terrains d'intervention. L'auteur explore le travail des économistes, statisticiens, représentants patronaux et syndicaux, responsables politiques et administratifs qui ont accumulé les preuves de l'existence d'une entité économique dont on peut mesurer les variations. Après avoir servi de cadre privilégié à la planification, l'objet primordial ainsi créé a aussi révélé sa face contraignante, lorsqu'en période de crise l'État subit l'économie plus qu'il n'agit sur elle."--Page 4 of cover.

• Introduction
• Origins
• New Deal Washington
• The second Chicago School
• Conscience of a conservative
• The great inflation
• The age of monetarism
• Epilogue: Helicopter drop.

"A biography of the American economist Milton Friedman"-- Provided by publisher.
Milton Friedman's work was instrumental in the turn toward free markets that defined the 1980's, and his defenses of capitalism and freedom resonated with audiences around the world. Burns tells his extraordinary story, providing context for his groundbreaking work on everything from why dentists earn less than doctors, to the causes of the Great Depression, to the vital importance of the money supply, to inflation and the limits of government planning and stimulus. In exploring Friedman's key role in creating a new economic vision and a modern American conservatism, she provides a revelatory biography of an architect of our times. -- adapted from jacket

• Introduction
• Part one: Understanding youth and their demographic dividend
• Chapter 1. Demographic dynamics of South Africa's youth and the implications for harnessing the demographic dividend / Nompumelelo Nzimande
• Part two: Pandemics and youth
• Chapter 2. Youth and HIV in South Africa: Living and thriving with HIV / Nompumelelo Zungu, Warren Parker, Inbarani Naidoo, Mokhantso Makoae, and Salome Sigida
• Chapter 3. Young people, social media and exposure to STIs: A semi-ethnographic experiment / Busani Ngcaweni
• Part three: Youth transitions
• Chapter 4. Building maps of the future / Botshabelo Maja
• Chapter 5. Youth career decision making: The influence of horizon for action and navigational capacity / Lucky Maluleke and Lesley Powell
• Chapter 6. Breaking barriers, transforming lives
• Youth transitions to work and what it takes: A case study of the harambee youth employment accelerator / Sharmi Surianarain and Rob Urquhart
• Part four: Youth development and growth
• Chapter 7. Right to quality education in Africa: A critical tool for a sustainable development agenda / Rita Ozoemena
• Chapter 8. A holistic approach to personal transformation in the youth sector / Lucille Meyer and Rajendra Chetty
• Part five: Youth employment
• Chapter 9. A conceptual frame for reviewing youth employment interventions: Based on a review of opportunities for youth in South Africa / Carmel Marock, Sindile Moitse, and Josephilda Nhlapo-Hlope
• Part six: Youth participation, inclusivity, and social protection conclusion.

• Introduction
• Conditional expectation and projection
• The algebra of least squares
• Least squares regression
• Normal regression
• A review of large sample asymptotics
• Asymptotic theory for least squares
• Restricted estimation
• Hypothesis testing
• Resampling methods
• Multivariate regression
• Instrumental variables
• Generalized method of moments
• Time series
• Multivariate time series
• Nonstationary time series
• Panel data
• Difference in differences
• Nonparametric regression
• Series regression
• Regression discontinuity
• M-Estimators
• Nonlinear least squares
• Quantile regression
• Binary choice
• Multiple choice
• Censoring and selection
• Model selection, Stein shrinkage, and model averaging
• Machine learning.

"Econometrics is the quantitative language of economic theory, analysis, and empirical work, and it has become a cornerstone of graduate economics programs. 'Econometrics' provides graduate and PhD students with an essential introduction to this foundational subject in economics and serves as an invaluable reference for researchers and practitioners. This comprehensive textbook teaches fundamental concepts, emphasizes modern, real-world applications, and gives students an intuitive understanding of econometrics. Covers the full breadth of econometric theory and methods with mathematical rigor while emphasizing intuitive explanations that are accessible to students of all backgrounds ; draws on integrated, research-level datasets, provided on an accompanying website ; discusses linear econometrics, time series, panel data, nonparametric methods, nonlinear econometric models, and modern machine learning ; features hundreds of exercises that enable students to learn by doing ; includes in-depth appendices on matrix algebra and useful inequalities and a wealth of real-world examples ; can serve as a core textbook for a first-year PhD course in econometrics and as a follow-up to Bruce E. Hansen’s 'Probability and Statistics for Economists"-- Provided by publisher.

• 1. Demand for Redistribution: A Conceptual Framework
• 2. Changes in Demand for Redistribution
• Conclusion.

"What explains the public's muted response to rising inequality? To answer this question, this book carefully unpacks the interaction between fairness concerns and material self-interest. The proposed framework helps explain puzzling trends in support for redistribution in Great Britain, the United States, France and beyond"-- Provided by publisher.