"The innovative investor's guide to an entirely new asset class--from two experts on the cutting edge, one of the fastest growing investment opportunities in the world today, blockchain assets such as bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are changing the way investors think, use, and grow their money. This clear, concise, and accessible guide from two industry experts is the first book of its kind to explain this brave new world to investors who want to explore the potential of blockchain assets in their portfolios. It gives readers an understanding of how this new asset class has evolved over the last decade, as well as an actionable framework with which to evaluate new blockchain assets and position investment portfolios in the coming wave of blockchain asset innovation. Investors will learn how to securitize these assets in familiar investment vehicles and leverage multiple platforms to achieve their financial goals. This is the future of money."

"Economists have long based their forecasts on financial aggregates such as price-earnings ratios, asset prices, and exchange rate fluctuations, and used them to produce statistically informed speculations about the future--with limited success. Robert Shiller employs such aggregates in his own forecasts, but has famously complemented them with observations about the influence of mass psychology on certain events. This approach has come to be known as behavioral economics. How can economists effectively capture the effects of psychology and its influence on economic events and change? Shiller attempts to help us better understand how psychology affects events by explaining how popular economic stories arise, how they grow viral, and ultimately how they drive economic developments. After defining narrative economics in the book's preface with allusions to the advent of both the Great Depression and to World War II, Shiller presents an example of a recent economic narrative gone viral in the story of Bitcoin. Next, he explains how narrative economics works with reference to how other disciplines incorporate narrative into their analyses and also to how epidemiology explains how disease goes viral. He then presents accounts of recurring economic narratives, including the gold standard, real estate booms, war and depression, and stock market booms and crashes. He ends his book with a blueprint for future research by economists on narrative economics"--

Balance of payments crises and resort to IMF borrowing is a recurrent feature of Pakistan’s economy. In the last three decades, there were few years when Pakistan was not in an IMF program. Fiscal mismanagement has played an oversized role in this, requiring prolonged periods of austerity and macroeconomic adjustment. A major objective of this book is to understand what drives the large and persistent fiscal deficits that lie at the heart of our economic malaise and how this may be addressed. Any charter for economic revival requires an agreement on prudent fiscal management among the main political parties and other power centers. To that end, this book, reviews a vast body of empirical research and policy documents to focus on three aspects of Pakistan’s fiscal deficits. Firstly, it examines the macro-economic consequences of the persistent fiscal deficits and assesses efforts to stabilize the economy under the IMF tutelage. Secondly, it examines the scope for: reducing public expenditure, reform of SOEs, alternatives to public provision of public goods, and achieving better expenditure outcomes. Thirdly, the book identifies the reasons Pakistan is unable to achieve its tax potential, and how the tax system can be reformed and its scope extended to individuals and activities that are either not in the tax net, grossly undertaxed or are able to evade their taxes, thereby levelling the playing field across individuals and economic activity. These critical aspects of economic management need to be addressed to align fiscal policy with the objectives of sustainable export led growth and meeting the challenges of global warming.

In the last 20 years, econometric theory on panel data has developed rapidly, particularly for analyzing common behaviors among individuals over time. Meanwhile, the statistical methods employed by applied researchers have not kept up-to-date. This book attempts to fill in this gap by teaching researchers how to use the latest panel estimation methods correctly. Almost all applied economics articles use panel data or panel regressions. However, many empirical results from typical panel data analyses are not correctly executed. This book aims to help applied researchers to run panel regressions correctly and avoid common mistakes. The book explains how to model cross-sectional dependence, how to estimate a few key common variables, and how to identify them. It also provides guidance on how to separate out the long-run relationship and common dynamic and idiosyncratic dynamic relationships from a set of panel data. Aimed at applied researchers who want to learn about panel data econometrics by running statistical software, this book provides clear guidance and is supported by a full range of online teaching and learning materials. It includes practice sections on MATLAB, STATA, and GAUSS throughout, along with short and simple econometric theories on basic panel regressions for those who are unfamiliar with econometric theory on traditional panel regressions.

Today's economic system premised on the sale of physical goods does not fit the information age we live in. The capitalist order requires the maintenance of an artificial scarcity in goods that have the potential for near infinite and almost free replication. The sharing of informational goods through distributed global networks digital libraries, file-sharing, live-streaming, free software, free-access publishing, the free-sharing of scientific knowledge, and open-source pharmaceuticals not only challenges the dominance of a scarcity-based economic system, but also enables a more efficient, innovative, just and free culture. In a series of seven explorations of contemporary sharing, Matthew David shows that these surpass markets, private ownership and intellectual property rights in fostering motivation, creativity, innovation, production, distribution and reward. In transforming the idea of an information economy into an information society, they connect struggles against inequality and poverty in developed and developing countries.0Challenging taken-for-granted justifications of the status quo, Sharing debunks the 'tragedy of the commons' and makes the case for digital network sharing as a viable mode of economic counterpower, prefiguring a post-capitalist society.

There's so much more to investing in property than having a double-digit portfolio. Whether you're a first-home buyer or a seasoned investor, this timely book will give you creative, hands-on strategies for getting the keys to your first or next property sooner. In Sort Your Property Out, John Pidgeon - podcast host, property investor and investing coach - will show you how to adopt an investor mindset. You'll discover actionable, step-by-step guidance on how to build a strategic portfolio, case studies from real investors and a range of worksheets and resources for every stage in your property journey. Start planning ahead and build your property portfolio in a relaxed, sustainable way

"Western Marxism: How It Was Born, How It Died, How It Can Be Reborn is a paradigm-shifting book that provides a trenchant critique of the Western left intelligentsia. It reveals how its dominant ideological orientation-characterized by defeatism, utopianism, and anti-communism-is rooted in the political economy of imperialism. Internationally acclaimed theorist Domenico Losurdo thus provides a fresh and challenging perspective on purportedly radical thinkers who have been widely promoted in the imperial core, including those affiliated with the Frankfurt School, French Theory, and operaismo, as well as Hannah Arendt, Giorgio Agamben, Michael Hardt, and Slavoj Z¿iz¿ek, among others. His critique also has wide-reaching implications for trend-setting discourses inspired by this coterie of intellectuals, from postcolonial and decolonial theory to subaltern studies and beyond. Far from being a negative undertaking, however, this book is grounded in the positive project of reigniting anti-imperialist Marxism"--