Economics category: 26433 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
Most of the existing research on economic history relies either solely or ultimately on calculations of material interest to explain the major events of the modern world. However, care must be taken not to rely too heavily on materialism, with its associated confidence in perfectly rational actors...
On Economic Knowledge
Toward a Science of Political Economics
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This book, first published in 1965 with a revised edition in 1977, examines the subject matter and the method of the science of economics. On Economic Knowledge explores the historical trends of economics, the logic of economic science, and whether or not economics can be viewed in itself as a science. This title will be of interest to students of economics.
by Maurice Lagueux
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2010
Economical questions indisputably occupy a central place in everyday life. In order to clarify these questions, people generally turn to those who are familiar with economics. In answering such legitimate questions, economists propose explanations which rest on a few principles among which the rationality...
Robinson Crusoe's Economic Man
A Construction and Deconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
In this book, economists and literary scholars examine the uses to which the Robinson Crusoe figure has been put by the economics discipline since the publication of Defoe’s novel in 1719. The authors’ critical readings of two centuries of texts that have made use of Robinson Crusoe undermine...
THORSTEIN VEBLEN Ultimate Collection: 8 Books & 50+ Business Essays and Articles in Warfare and Economics
The Theory of the Leisure Class, The Theory of Business Enterprise, The Higher Learning In America, Panem et Circenses, The Vested Interests and the Common Man, The Use of Loan Credit in Business…
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
This carefully crafted ebook: “THORSTEIN VEBLEN Ultimate Collection: 8 Books & 50+ Business Essays and Articles in Warfare and Economics” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) was an American economist and sociologist....
by S. Charusheela, Eiman Zein-Elabdin
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
In the last half century, economics has taken over from anthropology the role of drawing the powerful conceptual worldviews that organize knowledge and inform policy in both domestic and international contexts. Until now however, the colonial roots of economic theory have remained relatively unstudied....
Structural Economics
Measuring Change in Technology, Lifestyles, and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
In all societies, the main causes of environmental degradation are resource extraction and the generation of waste by households and industries. Realistic strategies for mitigating these impacts require an understanding of both the technologies by which resources are transformed into products, and...
by Malcolm Sawyer
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2011
This volume deals with both a new theoretical framework and the capability of new economics to tackle a number of economic problems. It offers detailed analysis and informed comment on the type of new economics emerging in the aftermath of the financial crisis and the 'great recession'.
The Common Sense behind Basic Economics
A Guide for Budding Economists, Students, and Voters
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Although it may sometimes seem like studying trigonometry in Latin, basic economics really is just plain common sense. But, it’s become so complicated in its presentation that very few are able to learn the basics. Whether academics, researchers, pundits, or legislators, few seem to have the skills...
by Sayyid Abul A'la Mawdudi
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Abul A'la Mawdudi laid down the foundations of modern Islamic economics. Drawing upon Islamic sources, Mawdudi spelled out a new paradigm for economic analysis and policy, wherein economic pursuits take place in the context of moral values and are directed towards the achievement of personal and social...
by Leighton Vaughan-Williams
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2005
Against a background of extraordinary growth in the popularity of betting and gaming across many countries of the world, there has never been a greater need for a study into gambling's most important factor - its economics.
This collection of original contributions drawn from such leading experts...
Islam and «Scientific» Economics
In the Pursuit of a New Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
In an Islamic society, it is ethics that dominates and determines all behavior, including economic behavior. The Holy Koran emerges as the main source of all economic behavior and practices which are subject to the commands of Allah as stated in the Koran. Since Islam is a universal religion, the...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
R. H. Coase Duncan Black was a close and dear friend. A man of great simplicity, un worldly, modest, diffident, with no pretensions, he was devoted to scholarship. In his single-minded search for the truth, he is an example to us all. Black's first degree at the University of Glasgow was in mathematics...
International Economics
A Heterodox Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Now in its third edition, Hendrik Van den Berg’s International Economics: A Heterodox Approach covers all of the standard topics taught in undergraduate international economics courses. Writtenin a friendly and approachable style, this new edition is unique in that it presents the key orthodoxneoclassical...