[PDF] Hot Stove Economics eBook

Author : J.C. Bradbury
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 32,75 MB
Release : 2010-09-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1441962697

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The final out of the World Series marks the beginning of baseball's second season, when teams court free agents and orchestrate trades with the hope of building a championship contender. The real and anticipated transactions generate excitement among fans who discuss the merit of moves in the arena informally known as the “hot stove league.” In Hot Stove Economics, economist J.C. Bradbury answers the hot stove league's most important question: what are baseball players worth? With in-depth analysis, Bradbury identifies the game’s best and worst contracts—revealing the bargains, duds, and players who are worth every penny they receive. From minor-league prospects to major-league MVPs, Bradbury examines how factors such as revenue growth, labor rules, and aging— even down to the month in which players are born—shape players' worth and evaluates how well franchises manage their rosters. He broadly applies the principles of economics to baseball in a way that is both interesting and understandable to sports fanatics, team managers, armchair economists and students alike.

Author : J.C. Bradbury
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 30,94 MB
Release : 2008-02-26
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1440635838

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Freakonomics meets Moneyball in this provocative exposé of baseball’s most fiercely debated controversies and some of its oldest, most dearly held myths. Providing far more than a mere collection of numbers, economics professor and popular blogger J.C. Bradbury shines the light of his economic thinking on baseball, exposing the power of tradeoffs, competition, and incentives. Utilizing his own “sabernomic” approach, Bradbury dissects baseball topics such as: • Did steroids have nothing to do with the recent homerun records? Incredibly, Bradbury’s research reveals steroids probably had little impact. • Which players are ridiculously overvalued? Bradbury lists all players by team with their revenue value to the team listed in dollars—including a dishonor role of those players with negative values—updated in paperback to include the 2007 season. • Does it help to lobby for balls and strikes? Statistics alone aren’t enough anymore. This is a refreshing, lucid, and powerful read for fans, fantasy buffs, and players—as well as coaches at all levels—who want to know what is really happening on the field.

Author : Laura Schenone
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 31,65 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780393326277

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Filled with classic recipes and inspirational stories, this stunningly illustrated book celebrates the power of food throughout American history and in women's lives.

Author : Daniel M. Hausman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 42,85 MB
Release : 1994-02-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521459297

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Expanded and updated coverage of such key areas as positivism and economic methodology as well as special methodological problems and perspectives enhances this new edition of twenty-two classic and more recent pivotal investigations into the philosophy of economics.

Author : John Roscoe Turner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 25,6 MB
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1000696731

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Originally published in 1919, this book is an outgrowth of classroom discussions. It contains in substance the talks on economics which have been made, for the past eleven years, to the author's classes in Cornell and New York Universities. The time has long since passed when a single volume can treat exhaustively the whole field of economics; designed as an introduction, this book will servce as a means to the end of a more intelligent study of economic questions and prepares the mind of the student for the thought contained in the more advanced and specialized works on the subject and the practical applications they reveal.

Author : John H. Kagel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 33,56 MB
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1400883172

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An indispensable survey of new developments and results in experimental economics When The Handbook of Experimental Economics first came out in 1995, the notion of economists conducting lab experiments to generate data was relatively new. Since then, the field has exploded. This second volume of the Handbook covers some of the most exciting new growth areas in experimental economics, presents the latest results and experimental methods, and identifies promising new directions for future research. Featuring contributions by leading practitioners, the Handbook describes experiments in macroeconomics, charitable giving, neuroeconomics, other-regarding preferences, market design, political economy, subject population effects, gender effects, auctions, and learning and the economics of small decisions. Contributors focus on key developments and report on experiments, highlighting the dialogue between experimenters and theorists. While most of the experiments consist of laboratory studies, the book also includes several chapters that report extensively on field experiments related to the subject area studied. Covers exciting new growth areas in experimental economics Features contributions by leading experts Describes experiments in macroeconomics, charitable giving, neuroeconomics, market design, political economy, gender effects, auctions, and more Highlights the dialogue by experimenters with theorists and each other Includes several chapters covering field experiments related to the subject area studied

Author : Julian Reiss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 36,40 MB
Release : 2013-07-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1136763325

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Philosophy of Economics: A Contemporary Introduction is the first systematic textbook in the philosophy of economics. It introduces the epistemological, metaphysical and ethical problems that arise in economics, and presents detailed discussions of the solutions that have been offered. Throughout, philosophical issues are illustrated by and analysed in the context of concrete cases drawn from contemporary economics, the history of economic ideas, and actual economic events. This demonstrates the relevance of philosophy of economics both for the science of economics and for the economy. This text will provide an excellent introduction to the philosophy of economics for students and interested general readers alike.