Appropriate as a stand alone or as a supplemental book, Finanical Planning with Quicken® deluxe 99 for Windows covers the basics of personal financial planning using Quicken®, the most popular personal finance software in use today. This book provides the tools necessary to embark upon the lifelong process of determining personal financial goals and objectives. It is uniquely designed to guide the student, step-by-step, through the financial planning process. Three different case scenarios throughout...

Rent-seeking is about buying influence, which can range from lobbying to corruption. The concepts of rents and rent-seeking are central to any discussion of the processes of economic development. Yet conventional models of rent-seeking are unable to explain how it can drive decades of rapid growth in some countries, and at other times be associated with spectacular economic crises. This book argues that the rent-seeking framework has to be radically extended if it is to explain the anomalous role...

This book stands out amid the many works critical of mainstream economics for its author’s reader-friendly intention to make accessible the problems of how countries in the South can develop successfully, what to do about social injustice and poverty, and the global environmental destruction that is proceeding apace. Klaus Nürnberger has transcended his background as an economist to present a holistic analysis of the human and environmental failings of our current market economy. He draws on recent...

“Environmental Economics” is an introduction to the basic principles of environmental economics as they have been developed in the past and as they continue to evolve. The examples discussed in this textbook represent only a sample of the full range of issues that actually exists. For this reason, the Fifth Edition sticks to the basic ideas and ways that environmental economists have found to make the basic concepts and models more specific and relevant to concrete environmental issues....

Introduces environmental and natural resource policy problems of today through the integrated discussion of economic theory and empirical evidence. Designed for students with in introductory economics or intermediate microeconomics course. DLC: Environmental economics.