Maurice Thomas’ Managerial Economics teaches students how to use microeconomic theory to analyze business decisions.  In a clear and engaging writing style, the 7th edition explores the current market forces that create both opportunities and constraints for business enterprises.  The book has enjoyed success in part because of its mid-level rigor. This edition also features a stronger emphasis on international perspectives and updated examples from today’s high-tech economy.  Strategic decision making in oligopoly markets has been modernized.

Managerial Economics: Applied Microeconomics for Decision Making (Irwin Publications in Economics)

Business & Money

Smithson, Charles W.

Maurice,S. Charles

Economics

McGraw-Hill Companies

Book by Maurice, S. Charles, Smithson, Charles W.

The Doomsday Myth: 10,000 Years of Economic Crises (Hoover Institution Press Publication)

Maurice, Charles

Hoover Institution Press

In The Doomsday Myth, Charles Maurice and Charles Smithson show that although doom merchants have been predicting imminent collapse from resource shortages as long as civilization has existed, no nation has ever fallen because of the depletion of a resource. They also show that government intervention has not been the solution to these crises. Instead, freely functioning markets with individuals acting in their own self-interest have eliminated shortages, and averted doomsday. The free market theme is the same one used by Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations in 1776, but the need to restate it for new generations is urgent. The authors concluded that a resource-based doomsday will arrive only if we suspend the functioning of free markets.

The Doomsday Myth: 10,000 Years of Economic Crises (Hoover Institution Press Publication) (Volume 296)

Discusses the risks caused by exchange rates, commodity price fluctuations, interest rates, and market volatility, and suggests a variety of risk management strategies

Managing Financial Risk (Institutional Investor Series in Finance)

Smith, Clifford W.

Wilford, D. Sykes

Finance

Ballinger Pub. Co.

Book by Smith, Clifford W., Smithson, Charles W.

The Handbook of Financial Engineering: New Financial Product Innovations, Applications, and Analyses