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by Léon Walras
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Elements of Pure Economics was one of the most influential works in the history of economics, and the single most important contribution to the marginal revolution. Walras' theory of general equilibrium remains one of the cornerstones of economic theory more than 100 years after it was first published.
by Brendan Brown
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
First published in 1989, The Economics of the Swap Market looks at how the swap has become a commonplace tool for corporations throughout the OECD world to ‘lock-in’ interest rates on their borrowing. The aim of The Economics of the Swap Market, is to contribute to a redressing of the balance....
Economic Complexity and Equilibrium Illusion
Essays on Market Instability and Macro Vitality
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
The Principle of Large Numbers indicates that macro fluctuations have weak microfoundations; persistent business cycles and interrupted technologies can be better characterized by macro vitality and meso foundations. Economic growth is limited by market extent and ecological constraints. The trade-off...
Economics Without Laws
Towards a New Philosophy of Economics
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
This book offers a vision of economics in which there is no place for universal laws of nature, and even for laws of a more probabilistic character. The author avoids interpreting the practice of economics as something that leads to the formulation of universal laws or laws of nature. Instead, chapters...
Castles, Battles, and Bombs
How Economics Explains Military History
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
Castles, Battles, and Bombs reconsiders key episodes of military history from the point of view of economics—with dramatically insightful results. For example, when looked at as a question of sheer cost, the building of castles in the High Middle Ages seems almost inevitable: though stunningly...
Cartesian Economics
The Bearing of Physical Science Upon State Stewardship
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Cartesian Economics, The Bearing of Physical Science upon State Stewardship is a compilation of two lectures given by Frederick Soddy to the student unions of Birbeck College and the London School of Economics. The lectures were the first of four works written between 1921 and 1934 that applied the concepts...
by James Mill
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
The book has an active table of contents for easy access to each chapter.
James Mill made essential contributions to social theory, political theory and political economy as a Scottish historian, economist, political theorist, and philosopher. He was a founder of classical economics along...
by James Mill
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
The book has an active table of contents for easy access to each chapter.
James Mill made essential contributions to social theory, political theory and political economy as a Scottish historian, economist, political theorist, and philosopher. He was a founder of classical economics along...
Economic Evolution
An Inquiry into the Foundations of the New Institutional Economics
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 1995
The new institutional economics offers one of the most exciting research agendas in economics today. Yet can it really explain processes of economic change? Economic Evolution explores three of the main approaches within the new institutional economics:* the new theory of the firm,* Nelson and Winter's evolutionary economics * game theoretic accoun
by Hak Choi
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
Labor should be the ultimate caring object of Economics. Whom else is Economics for? The main contents of Karl Marx’s capitalism were devoted to criticizing capitalists or factory owners for their negligence of workers’ welfare. When workers are well taken care of, bosses can earn more money....
The Environmental Consequences of Growth
Steady-State Economics as an Alternative to Ecological Decline
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2006
This book presents a new perspective on the link between economic growth and environmental change. All the key issues in environmental economics are covered, including:
* industry, creation and environmental change
* air, water and toxic pollution
* economic growth and the limits of environmental...
The Open Society and its Enemies in East Asia
The Relevance of the Popperian Framework
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
The ideas contained in Karl Popper’s The Open Society and Its Enemies—one of the most important tracts in political philosophy in the twentieth century—are relevant to anyone seeking to understand the recent history of the East Asian economies. Even though Popper wrote his tract to provide an...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2018
This book presents original research articles addressing various aspects of economics, management and optimization. The topics discussed include economics, finance, marketing, resource allocation strategies, fuzzy logic, and network-based techniques for the analysis of economics, management and mathematical...
Applied Analysis of Growth, Trade, and Public Policy
Ten Years of International Academic Exchanges Between JAAE and KEBA
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
This book analyzes the various problems of growth, trade and public policy from the perspective of applied economics, based on research in areas such as public policies, trade and regulation, and development economics. Part 1 investigates the broad problems of growth and regional economy, focusing...