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Free Download Economics of Power Systems: Fundamentals for Sustainable Energy (Springer Texts in Business and Economics) by Christoph Weber, Dominik Möst, Wolf Fichtner
English | November 15, 2022 | ISBN: 3030977692 | 447 pages | MOBI | 21 Mb
In order to manage the transition towards a sustainable future electricity system, an in-depth understanding of the key technological, economic, environmental and societal drivers for electricity markets is required. Suitable for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, this textbook provides an overview of these drivers and introduces readers to major economic models and empirical evidence for the study of electricity markets and systems.

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English | 2023 | ISBN: n/a | 217 Pages | PDF | 2 MB
Quantitative Economics with Python using JAX Book

Free Download Intermediate Quantitative Economics with Python
English | 2023 | ISBN: n/a | 1481 Pages | PDF | 27 MB
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Free Download Smart Grid Economics: A Field Experimental Approach to Demand Response by Takanori Ida , Makoto Tanaka , Koichiro Ito
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 142 Pages | ISBN : 9819985765 | 14.1 MB
This book aims to report on a cutting-edge research project of the smart grid in Japan, resting on the three pillars of field experiments, behavioral economics, and big data. The field experiments on the smart grid were conducted in four regions in Japan-Yokohama city, Toyota city, Keihanna Science City, and Kitakyushu city-over a three-year period from 2012 to 2014 after the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011, and the subsequent accident at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plants. Our focus here is on demand response in the smart grid environment, which we also discuss in the context of power system reforms. The book is intended for undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, policy makers, and business leaders.

Free Download Marginal Revolution in Economics: A Reappraisal by Toru Maruyama
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 264 Pages | ISBN : 9819943418 | 9.4 MB
This volume is devoted to a reappraisal of the Marginal Revolution on the occasion of its 150th anniversary. The year 1871 should be remembered as one of the most important turning points in the history of economics. W. S. Jevons, C. Menger, and L. Walras published epochal works at the very beginning of the 1870s. Although these works were written independently, they shared a common mathematical structure based on classical analysis. For this reason, the emergence of the trio is called the Marginal Revolution. Indeed, 1871 is the starting point of modern economics in the proper sense.

Free Download The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art by Don Thompson, Adam Verner, Tantor Audio
English | 2014 | ISBN: B01NH9Y36U | Format: MP3 / 10 hours and 29 minutes | 288 Mb
Why would a smart New York investment banker pay $12 million for the decaying, stuffed carcass of a shark? By what alchemy does Jackson Pollock’s drip painting "No. 5, 1948" sell for $140 million?
Intriguing and entertaining, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark is a Freakonomics approach to the economics and psychology of the contemporary art world. Why were record prices achieved at auction for works by 131 contemporary artists in 2006 alone, with astonishing new heights reached in 2007? Don Thompson explores the money, lust, and self-aggrandizement of the art world in an attempt to determine what makes a particular work valuable while others are ignored.
This book is the first to look at the economics and the marketing strategies that enable the modern art market to generate such astronomical prices. Drawing on interviews with both past and present executives of auction houses and art dealerships, artists, and the buyers who move the market, Thompson launches the listener on a journey of discovery through the peculiar world of modern art. Surprising, passionate, gossipy, and revelatory, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark reveals a great deal that even experienced auction purchasers do not know.

Free Download Economics in Two Lessons: Why Markets Work so Well, and Why They Can Fail so Badly by John Quiggin, Gildart Jackson, Blackstone Audio, Inc.
English | 2019 | ISBN: B07QHYXNGK | Duration: 11:01:32 | MP3@64 kbps | 298 Mb
A masterful introduction to the key ideas behind the successes – and failures – of free-market economics
Since 1946, Henry Hazlitt’s best-selling Economics in One Lesson has popularized the belief that economics can be boiled down to one simple lesson: market prices represent the true cost of everything. But one-lesson economics tells only half the story. It can explain why markets often work so well, but it can’t explain why they often fail so badly – or what we should do when they stumble. As Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Samuelson quipped, "When someone preaches ‘economics in one lesson’, I advise: go back for the second lesson." In Economics in Two Lessons, John Quiggin teaches both lessons, offering a masterful introduction to the key ideas behind the successes – and failures – of free markets.
Economics in Two Lessons explains why market prices often fail to reflect the full cost of our choices to society as a whole. For example, every time we drive a car, fly in a plane, or flick a light switch, we contribute to global warming. But, in the absence of a price on carbon emissions, the costs of our actions are borne by everyone else. In such cases, government action is needed to achieve better outcomes.

Free Download Cogs and Monsters: What Economics Is, and What It Should Be by Diane Coyle, Gina Rogers, Ascent Audio
B09HL4LJKQ | 2021 | ISBN: B09HL4LJKQ | Format: MP3 / Bitrate: 64 Kbps / 7 hours and 12 minutes | 198 Mb
Digital technology, big data, big tech, machine learning, and AI are revolutionizing both the tools of economics and the phenomena it seeks to measure, understand, and shape. In Cogs and Monsters, Diane Coyle explores the enormous problems – but also opportunities – facing economics today if it is to respond effectively to these dizzying changes and help policymakers solve the world’s crises.
Mainstream economics, Coyle says, still assumes people are "cogs" – self-interested, calculating, independent agents interacting in defined contexts. But the digital economy is much more characterized by "monsters" – untethered, snowballing, and socially influenced unknowns. What is worse, by treating people as cogs, economics is creating its own monsters, leaving itself without the tools to understand the new problems it faces. In response, Coyle asks whether economic individualism is still valid in the digital economy, whether we need to measure growth and progress in new ways, and whether economics can ever be objective, since it influences what it analyzes.
Filled with original insights, Cogs and Monsters offers a road map for how economics can adapt to the rewiring of society, including by digital technologies, and realize its potential to play a hugely positive role in the 21st century.

Free Download Small is Still Beautiful: Economics as if Families Mattered by Joseph Pearce
English | October 17th, 2023 | ISBN: 1933859040 | 350 pages | True EPUB | 0.82 MB
A third of a century ago, E. F. Schumacher rang out a timely warning against the idolatry of giantism with his book Small Is Beautiful. Schumacher, a highly respected economist and adviser to third-world governments, broke ranks with the accepted wisdom of his peers to warn of impending calamity if rampant consumerism, technological dynamism, and economic expansionism were not checked by human and environmental considerations.

Free Download Lucy Ambler, "Reclaiming economics for future generations "
English | ISBN: 1526165295 | 2022 | 392 pages | PDF | 22 MB
Today’s economies fail to recognise that we are in a rapidly worsening crisis, reproducing and often worsening vast and harmful inequalities between people and countries. The current models are unsustainable, and at a time when global temperatures are rising and divides are deepening, humanity is left in a rapidly worsening situation of its own making, the destruction of the living world, which will make large parts of the earth uninhabitable.