Economics

Social Security has an extremely dark and dangerous side. It determines and pays out benefits only to claw them back years or decades later, because of its own mistakes. Yes, this book is scary. But it also conveys simple ways to protect yourself from clawbacks and scams.

With insurance at the center of divisive debates about privacy, equity, and the appropriate role of government, this book offers clear explanations for some of the critical business and policy issues you’ve often wondered about, as well as for others you haven’t yet considered.

Bringing together research on incentives, social norms, and market competition, the authors argue that the healthcare system generates the wrong kinds of innovation. This book sheds new light on the trajectory of healthcare, and how to point innovation in a better direction.

Whether you're making education, career, marriage, lifestyle, housing, investment, retirement, or Social Security decisions, Kotlikoff provides a clear framework for readers of all ages and income levels to learn tricks to accomplish what you formerly dreaded: financial planning.

Examines the nature, causes, and consequences of population movements between the rural and urban sectors of developing countries.

A unified and comprehensive introduction to the analytical and numerical tools for solving dynamic economic problems; substantially revised for the second edition.

Volume 1 covers statistical methods related to unit roots, trend breaks and their interplay. Volume 2 is about statistical methods related to structural change in time series models.