Economics category: 26433 books
by Milton Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Economics is sometimes divided into two parts: positive economics and normative economics. The former deals with how the economic problem is solved, while the latter deals with how the economic problem should be solved. The effects of price or rent control on the distribution of income are problems...
Zombie Economics
How Dead Ideas Still Walk among Us (New in Paper)
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
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...
by Susheng Wang
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
This textbook concisely covers math knowledge and tools useful for business and economics studies, including matrix analysis, basic math concepts, general optimization, dynamic optimization, and ordinary differential equations. Basic math tools, particularly optimization tools, are essential for students...
Ecological Economics for the Anthropocene
An Emerging Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Ecological Economics for the Anthropocene provides an urgently needed alternative to the long-dominant neoclassical economic paradigm of the free market, which has focused myopically—even fatally—on the boundless production and consumption of goods and services without heed to environmental consequences....
Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
A Contemporary Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Environmental issues are of fundamental importance, and a broad approach to understanding the relationship of the human economy and the natural world is essential. In a rapidly changing policy and scientific context, this new edition of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics reflects an updated...
How the Economy Works
Confidence, Crashes and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2010
"Of all the economic bubbles that have been pricked," the editors of The Economist recently observed, "few have burst more spectacularly than the reputation of economics itself." Indeed, the financial crisis that crested in 2008 destroyed the credibility of the economic thinking...
Buddhist Economics
An Enlightened Approach to the Dismal Science
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
In the tradition of E. F. Schumacher's Small Is Beautiful, renowned economist Clair Brown argues persuasively for a new economics built upon equality, sustainability, and right living.
"Buddhist Economics will give guidance to all those who seek peace, fairness, and environmental sustainability."...
Social Fairness and Economics
Economic Essays in the Spirit of Duncan Foley
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
This volume brings together papers inspired by the work of Duncan Foley, an extraordinarily productive economist who has made seminal contributions to a wide variety of areas. Foley’s work cannot be easily classified, but one thread that runs through it is a critical examination (along both ethical...
Global Economics
A Holistic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2018
Global Economics looks beyond the mere interaction of national economies as is implied by the term 'international economics.' It examines the integration of national economies into the emerging global economy. In keeping with the subtitle A Holistic Approach, the book considers the roles of technology,...
The Methodology of Economics
Or, How Economists Explain
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 1992
This book is an examination of the nature of economic explanation. The opening chapters introduce current thinking in the philosophy of science and review the literature on methodology. Professor Blaug then turns to the troublesome question of the logical status of welfare economics, giving the reader...
The Knowledge We Have Lost in Information
The History of Information in Modern Economics
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Information is a central concept in economics, and The Knowledge We Have Lost in Information explores its treatment in modern economics. The study of information, far from offering enlightenment, resulted in all matter of confusion for economists and the public. Philip Mirowski and Edward Nik-Khah...
by Morris Altman
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
A guide to the study of how and why you really make financial decisions
While classical economics is based on the notion that people act with rational self-interest, many key money decisions—like splurging on an expensive watch—can seem far from rational. The field of behavioral economics...
Policy Analysis and Economics
Developments, Tensions, Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Long before policy analysis emerged as a separate profession with its own graduate schools, economists offered advice about government policies. Positive economics provides the tools for predicting the impacts of prop osed policies; normative economics, especially welfare theory, offers a framework...
A History of American Economic Thought
Mainstream and Crosscurrents
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
This vital addition to the Routledge History of Economic Thought series surveys arguably the most important country in the development of economics as we know it today – the United States of America.
A History of American Economic Thought is a comprehensive study of American economics as...