Economics category: 26433 books
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Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Economic Theory, academic policy analysis and public policy design are becoming more interdependent. Hence, the demands for close interactions between the policy community and the research community have been rising significantly. This book assesses how recent economic thinking has advanced under...
Economics, Ethics and the Market
Introduction and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2006
The primary aim of the text is to introduce the reader to the relationship between economics and ethics and to the application of economic ethics in the evaluation of the market. The reader will gain insight into:
The ethical and methodological strategy of economics and criticism of the core...
Economics as Religion
From Samuelson to Chicago and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2001
In this study, Robert H. Nelson explores the genesis, the prophets, the prophesies, and the tenets of what he sees as a religion of economics that has come into full blossom in latter-day America. Nelson does not see "theology" as a bad word, and his examination of the theology underlying...
Radical Economics and Labour
Essays inspired by the IWW Centennial
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
To celebrate the centenary of the most radical union in North America - The Industrial Workers of the World - this collection examines radical economics and the labor movement in the 20th Century. The union advocates direct action to raise wages and increase job control, and it envisions the eventual...
Can We Afford the Future?
The Economics of a Warming World
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
According to many scientists, climate change is a growing threat to life as we know it, requiring a large-scale, immediate response. According to many economists, climate change is a moderately important problem; the best policy is a slow, gradual start, to avoid spending too much. They can't both...
Green Economics
An Introduction to Theory, Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
The world as we know it needs a new economics. Climate change, financial crisis and out-of-control globalization - all the major problems facing the world have their root in the dominant economic system. The globalised marketplace is the prevailing force in our lives, undermining the real importance...
by Victor A. Ginsburgh, David Throsby
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
This volume emphasizes the economic aspects of art and culture, a relatively new field that poses inherent problems for economics, with its quantitative concepts and tools. Building bridges across disciplines such as management, art history, art philosophy, sociology, and law, editors Victor Ginsburgh...
Renaissance in Behavioral Economics
Essays in Honour of Harvey Leibenstein
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2007
Economists working on behavioral economics have been awarded the Nobel Prize four times in recent years. This book explores this innovative area and in particular focuses on the work of Harvey Leibenstein, one of the pioneers of the discipline.
The topics covered in the book include agency...
Epistemic Economics and Organization
Forms of Rationality and Governance for a Wiser Economy
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
This book proposes a new approach to economics, management and organization that should help in making economic organization ‘wise’, ‘innovative’ and ‘robust’ in an uncertain and risky world. Although the modern economy and society is ‘knowledge intensive’, Anna Grandori argues that...
by John Keynes
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
The book has an active table of contents for easy access to each chapter.
John Keyes made essential contributions to classical economics and has been called the most influential classical economist along with Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus, John Stuart Mill, and Karl Marx.
The General...
by John Keynes, Thomas Malthus
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
The book has an active table of contents for easy access to each chapter of the following titles:
1) THE GENERAL THEORY OF EMPLOYMENT, INTEREST AND MONEY - JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
2) AN ESSAY ON THE PRINCIPLE OF POPULATION – THOMAS MALTHUS
This book contains the two most important...
by Robert L. Heilbroner
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 1989
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 1989
"[These essays] are rich in argument, in clear and provocative presentation of complicated issues, and are often delightfully quotable. Behind the Veil of Economics makes instructive, disturbing, and lively reading." —Elizabeth Wolgast, New York Times Book Review
What lies behind...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Introduction to Agent-Based Economics describes the principal elements of agent-based computational economics (ACE). It illustrates ACE’s theoretical foundations, which are rooted in the application of the concept of complexity to the social sciences, and it depicts its growth and development from...
Policy and Choice
Public Finance through the Lens of Behavioral Economics
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Traditional public finance provides a powerful framework for policy analysis, but it relies on a model of human behavior that the new science of behavioral economics increasingly calls into question. In Policy and Choice economists William Congdon, Jeffrey Kling, and Sendhil Mullainathan argue that...