Economics category: 26433 books
Transforming Economics
Perspectives on the Critical Realist Project
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Economics has become polarised. On the one hand there is a body of economists who concern themselves with progressing their discipline via an increasing use of mathematical modelling. On the other hand, there are economists who believe passionately that in order for economics to be useful it needs...
by Peter M. Lichtenstein
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
International economic theories emerged within particular social, economic and political frameworks and were developed as solutions to the problems of contemporary economics. In order to understand the increasingly complex and interdependent state of today’s international economy, we need to realise...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
More than any other area of regulation, antitrust economics shapes law and policy in the United States, the Americas, Europe, and Asia. In a number of different areas of antitrust, advances in theory and empirical work have caused a fundamental reevaluation and shift of some of the assumptions behind...
Economics for Business
A Guide to Decision Making in a Complex Global Macroeconomy
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Economics for Business enables the reader to develop a clear understanding of the economic environment in which business takes place. This comprehensive book covers: the process of globalization and its implications for business; the role of the market and supply and demand; the impact of demand on...
Contemporary Meanings of John R. Commons’s Institutional Economics
An Analysis Using a Newly Discovered Manuscript
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
This book is the first to reinterpret John R. Commons's Institutional Economics with a newly discovered manuscript written in 1927 in order to find its contemporary meanings in economic theories. Commons aimed to establish institutional economics to understand capitalism in the USA of that time, when...
Integral Economics
Releasing the Economic Genius of Your Society
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Why on earth is economics perceived to come in only one or at best two different a-cultural if not a-moral guises? There are real, and many, alternatives to the economic mainstream. The trouble is, of course, that they are hidden from us. In Integral Economics Ronnie Lessem and Alexander Schieffer...
by Riccardo Faucci
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
This book provides the non-Italian scholar with an extensive picture of the development of Italian economics, from the Sixteenth century to the present. The thread of the narrative is the dialectics between economic theory and political action, where the former attempts to enlighten the latter, but...
by John Quiggin
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
In the graveyard of economic ideology, dead ideas still stalk the land. The recent financial crisis laid bare many of the assumptions behind market liberalism--the theory that market-based solutions are always best, regardless of the problem. For decades, their advocates dominated mainstream...
Economics in Action
An Easy Guide for Development Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
This book is a compendium on economics specially designed for development practitioners and civil-society activists who do not have formal training in the subject. It provides an understanding of microeconomics, knowledge of the macroeconomic environment and insights from the specialized area called...
Late Neoclassical Economics
The restoration of theoretical humanism in contemporary economic theory
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Several contemporary economic theories revolve around different concepts: market failures, institutions, transaction costs, information asymmetries, motivational diversity, cognitive limitations, strategic behaviors and evolutionary stability. In recent years, many economists have argued that the...
Positional Analysis for Sustainable Development
Reconsidering Policy, Economics and Accounting
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution of land and water, land-use changes, lack of equality and other problems at local, national and global levels represent a challenge for economics as a social science. Mainstream neoclassical economics may be able to contribute to a more sustainable society...
by Bernard Hodgson
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Economics as Moral Science investigates the problem of the ethical neutrality of "mainstream" economic theory within the context of the methodology of economics as a science. Against the conventional wisdom, the author argues that there are serious moral presuppositions to the theory, but...
by Marshall Sahlins
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Since its first publication over forty years ago Marshall Sahlins's Stone Age Economics has established itself as a classic of modern anthropology and arguably one of the founding works of anthropological economics. Ambitiously tackling the nature of economic life and how to study it comparatively,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2019
The London School of Economics (LSE) has been and continues to be one of the most important global centres for economics. With six chapters on themes in LSE economics and 29 chapters on the lives and work of LSE economists, this volume shows how economics became established at the School, how it produced...