Economics category: 26433 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
In the last decade, behavioral economics, borrowing from psychology and sociology to explain decisions inconsistent with traditional economics, has revolutionized the way economists view the world. But despite this general success, behavioral thinking has fundamentally transformed only one field of...
From Economics Imperialism to Freakonomics
The Shifting Boundaries between Economics and other Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
Is or has economics ever been the imperial social science? Could or should it ever be so? These are the central concerns of this book. It involves a critical reflection on the process of how economics became the way it is, in terms of a narrow and intolerant orthodoxy, that has, nonetheless, increasingly...
by Manuel Couret Branco
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2008
Human rights and economics are the concepts that have contributed the most to free human kind, the former from fear and the latter from need. Consequently, they should be complementing rather competing. Unfortunately it does not seem to be the case. In this book Manuel Couret Branco shows how mainstream...
How Economics Professors Can Stop Failing Us
The Discipline at a Crossroads
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
This book provides an eye-opening exposé on economics professors that will surely shock anyone who is not familiar with the topic, and even some of those who are familiar with it. It is critical of the behavior of economics professors, but is not critical of the field of economics itself. In fact,...
Popular Economics
What the Rolling Stones, Downton Abbey, and LeBron James Can Teach You about Economics
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
“John Tamny is a one-man antidote to economic obfuscation and mystification.” —George Will, Nationally Syndicated Columnist
“In spirit, Tamny does for economics what the Gutenberg printing press did for the Bible, making a previously inaccessible subject open to all. Equally important,...
Objective Economics
How Ayn Rand's Philosophy Changes Everything about Economics
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
Every price is set by someone; this is where economics begins. Building on that fundamental idea and on Ayn Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism, Objective Economics transforms economics. The thesis of this book is that Ayn Rand’s concept of “objective” is the indispensible base of valid economic...
How to Improve Our Standard of Living by Understanding Basic Economics
This book makes common sense of economics and explains it in plain and simple terms that everyone can understand so we will be better off creating our well-being and become wealthier.
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Need to Improve Our Standard of Living – Then Reading This Book
Our standard of living has a lot to do with economics, especially our family’s financial situation. We must understand basic economics and use it to create our well-being and become wealthier.
The reader, either...
Behavioural Economics and Policy Design
Examples from Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Analysts of government have frequently noted how Singapore's policies are grounded in rigorous economics thinking. Policies are designed to be economically efficient even if they are not always popular. This pioneering book takes a different approach. It aims to demonstrate how successful policies...
The Oxford Handbook of Law and Economics
Volume 1: Methodology and Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Covering over one-hundred topics on issues ranging from Law and Neuroeconomics to European Union Law and Economics to Feminist Theory and Law and Economics, The Oxford Handbook of Law and Economics is the definitive work in the field of law and economics. The book gathers together scholars and experts...
Law and Economics: Alternative Economic Approaches to Legal and Regulatory Issues
Alternative Economic Approaches to Legal and Regulatory Issues
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
The economic analysis of legal and regulatory issues need not be limited to the neoclassical economic approach. The expert contributors to this work employ a variety of heterodox legal-economic theories to address a broad range of legal issues. They demonstrate how these various approaches can lead...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
It is increasingly recognized that the economic value of forests is not merely the production of timber. Forests provide other key ecosystem services, such as being sinks for greenhouse gases, hotspots of biodiversity, tourism and recreation. They are also vitally important in preventing soil erosion...
The Changing Face of Economics
Conversations with Cutting Edge Economists
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
The Changing Face of Economics gives the reader a sense of the modern economics profession and how it is changing. The volume does so with a set of nine interviews with cutting edge economists, followed by interviews with two Nobel Prize winners, Paul Samuelson and Kenneth Arrow, reflecting on the...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Until the end of the early 1970s, from a history of economic thought perspective, the mainstream in economics was pluralist, but once neoclassical economics became totally dominant it claimed the mainstream as its own. Since then, alternative views and schools of economics increasingly became minorities...
The Artful Economist
A New Look at Cultural Economics
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
This book reassesses central topics in cultural economics: Public finance and public choice theory as the basis for decision-making in cultural and media policy, the role of welfare economics in cultural policy, the economics of creative industries, the application of empirical testing to the performing...