02912nam 2200577 450 991045273310332120200520144314.090-272-7105-4(CKB)2550000001114984(EBL)1375109(SSID)ssj0000984228(PQKBManifestationID)11543042(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000984228(PQKBWorkID)11013753(PQKB)10007164(MiAaPQ)EBC1375109(Au-PeEL)EBL1375109(CaPaEBR)ebr10755528(CaONFJC)MIL514716(OCoLC)858941697(EXLCZ)99255000000111498420130828h20132013 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe book of fortune and prudence /Bernat Metge ; translated into English and Spanish with an introduction and notes by Antonio Cortijo Ocaña and Vicent MartinesAmsterdam ;Philadelphia :John Benjamins Publishing Company,[2013]©20131 online resource (122 p.)IVITRA research in linguistics and literature : studies, editions and translations ;volume 6Description based upon print version of record.90-272-4012-4 1-299-83465-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.The Book of Fortune and Prudence; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction; Bernat Metge (1340/1346-1413); Bernat Metge's works; Lo Somni; Llibre de Fortuna e Prudència (MSS copies and Summary of Content); Literary sources; Final considerations; Selected bibliography; Translators note; El Llibre de Fortuna e Prudència / Book of Fortune and Prudence; IndexThese new translations of Bernat Metge's Libre de Fortuna e Prudència (1381) into Spanish (verse) and English (prose) make this key early work by 14th-century Catalonia's most challenging writer available to the wider audience it has longed deserved. As with Metge's masterwork, Lo somni (The Dream), recently translated by Cortijo Ocaña and Elisabeth Lagresa (Benjamins, 2013), the writing of The Book of Fortune and Prudence seems to have been precipitated by a larger crisis in Catalan society, in this case, an all-too-familiar-sounding banking crisis. Drawing on sources ranging frIVITRA research in linguistics and literature ;v. 6.Electronic books.849/.912Metge Bernatapproximately 1350-approximately 1410.859606Cortijo Ocaña Antonio388974Martines Vicent1965-164316MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452733103321The book of fortune and prudence2072314UNINA04990nam 22006013u 450 991079017130332120230721014858.0(CKB)2670000000169198(EBL)876180(OCoLC)244017283(MiAaPQ)EBC876180(MiAaPQ)EBC350902(Au-PeEL)EBL350902(EXLCZ)99267000000016919820131014d2008|||| u|| |engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierA Course in Monetary Economics[electronic resource] Sequential Trade, Money, and Uncertainty1st ed.Hoboken Wiley20081 online resource (424 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-631-21566-2 A COURSE IN MONETARY ECONOMICS; Contents; Preface; Part I: Introduction to Monetary Economics; 1 Overview; 1.1 Money, Inflation, and Output: Some Empirical Evidence; 1.2 The Policy Debate; 1.3 Modeling Issues; 1.4 Background Material; 1.4.1 The Fisherian diagram; 1.4.2 Efficiency and distortive taxes; 1.4.3 Asset pricing; 2 Money in the Utility Function; 2.1 Motivating the Money in the Utility Function Approach: The Single-period, Single-agent Problem; 2.2 The Multi-period, Single-agent Problem; 2.3 Equilibrium with Constant Money Supply2.4 The Social and Private Cost for Accumulating Real Balances 2.5 Administrative Ways of Getting to the Optimum; 2.6 Once and for All Changes in M; 2.7 Change in the Rate of Money Supply Change: Technical Aspects; 2.8 Change in the Rate of Money Supply Change: Economics; 2.9 Steady-state Equilibrium (SSE); 2.10 Transition from One Steady State to Another; 2.11 Regime Changes; 2.12 Introducing Physical Capital and Bonds; 2.13 The Golden Rule and the Modified Golden Rule; Appendix 2A A dynamic programming example; 3 The Welfare Cost of Inflation in a Growing Economy3.1 Steady-state Equilibrium in a Growing Economy 3.2 Generalizing the Model in Chapter 2 to the Case of Growth; 3.3 Money Substitutes; Appendix 3A A dynamic programming formulation; 4 Government; 4.1 The Revenues from Printing Money; 4.1.1 Steady-state revenues; 4.1.2 Out of the steady-state revenues; 4.1.3 The present value of revenues; Appendix 4A Non-steady-state equilibrium; 4.2 The Government's "Budget Constraint"; 4.2.1 Monetary and fiscal policy: Who moves first?; 4.2.2 The fiscal approach to the price level4.3 Policy in the Absence of Perfect Commitment: A Positive Theory of Inflation5 More Explicit Models of Money; 5.1 A Cash-in-advance Model; 5.1.1 A two-goods model; 5.1.2 An analogous real economy; 5.1.3 Money super-neutrality in a one-good model; 5.2 An Overlapping Generations Model; 5.3 A Baumol-Tobin Type Model; Appendix 5A; 6 Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy; 6.1 The Second-best Allocation; 6.2 The Second Best and the Friedman Rule; 6.3 Smoothing Tax Distortions; 6.4 A Shopping Time Model; 7 Money and the Business Cycle: Does Money Matter?7.1 VAR and Impulse Response Functions: An Example7.2 Using VAR Impulse Response Analysis to Assess the Money-Output Relationship; 7.3 Specification Search; 7.4 Variance Decomposition; 8 Sticky Prices in a Demand-satisfying Model; 9 Sticky Prices with Optimal Quantity Choices; 9.1 The Production to Order Case; 9.2 The Production to Market Case; 10 Flexible Prices; 10.1 Lucas' Confusion Hypothesis; 10.2 Limited Participation; Part II: An Introduction to the Economics of Uncertainty; 11 Preliminaries; 11.1 Trade in Contingent Commodities; 11.2 Effficient Risk Allocation12 Does Insurance Require Risk Aversion?Monetary Economics and Sequential Trade is an insightful introduction to the advanced topics in monetary economics. Accessible to students who have mastered the diagrammatic tools of economics, it discusses real issues with a variety of modeling alternatives, allowing for a direct comparison of the implications of the different models. The exposition is clear and logical, providing a solid foundation in monetary theory and the techniques of economic modeling. The text is rooted in the author's years of teaching and research, and will be highly suitable for monetary economics courses in bothMonetary policyMoney - Mathematical modelsMoneyUncertainty - Mathematical modelsMonetary policy.Money - Mathematical models.Money.Uncertainty - Mathematical models.332.4332.4/6332.40151332.46Eden Benjamin918225AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910790171303321A Course in Monetary Economics2058857UNINA