Economics category: 26433 books
Full-Spectrum Economics
Toward an Inclusive and Emancipatory Social Science
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2010
Economics is essential in today’s world, and yet mainstream economists are increasingly under criticism for not taking into account sufficiently many dimensions of real life, such as political and moral values, human development, spirituality, and people’s widely shared aspiration to live more...
Economics as an Evolutionary Science
From Utility to Fitness
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Economics is traditionally taken to be the social science concerned with the production, consumption, exchange, and distribution of wealth and commodities. Economists carefully track the comings and goings of the human household, whether written small (microeconomics) or large (macroeconomics) and...
Welfare Economics
An Interpretive History
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
Although it was an important specialization in economics in the mid-twentieth century, welfare economics has received less attention in the twenty-first century. This book explores the history of welfare economics, with a view to explaining its rise and subsequent decline.
Drawing on both philosophy...
Economic Literacy and Money Illusion
An Experimental Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
The concept of money illusion, a recently resurrected phenomenon of behavioral economics, is a real fact of economic life, the potential role of which should no longer be dismissed. Despite money illusion being utterly suppressed by mainstream economists, small deviations from rationality, together...
by Peter Smith
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Doing Economics offers a clear and accessible guide to the nature of Economics. Unlike many other mainstream disciplines, economics is a subject that many students meet for the first time when they arrive at University to study the subject at degree level. The way economics is studied at university...
Handbook of the Economics of Wine
(In 2 Volumes) - Volume 1: Prices, Finance, and Expert Opinion; Volume 2: Reputation, Regulation, and Market Organization
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Over the last three decades, wine economics has emerged as a growing field within agricultural economics, but also in other fields such as finance, trade, growth, environmental economics and industrial organization. Wine has a few characteristics that differentiate it from other agricultural commodities,...
Selected Issues in Experimental Economics
Proceedings of the 2015 Computational Methods in Experimental Economics (CMEE) Conference
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
The aim of this volume is to provide deep insights and the latest scientific developments and trends in experimental economics. Derived from the 2015 Computational Methods in Experimental Economics (CMEE) conference, this book features papers containing research and analysis of economic experiments...
Economics of the Oceans
Rights, Rents and Resources
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
It is an unfortunate truth that our oceans offer valuable resources that are too often used unsustainably. Time and again this is due to the failure of international law to provide a framework for adequate governance. Economics of the Oceans examines this issue and provides a comprehensive study of...
A History of Economic Science in Japan
The Internationalization of Economics in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Japanese economists began publishing scientific papers in renowned journals including Econometrica in the 1950s and had made their significant contributions to the sophistication of general equilibrium analysis by intensive use of a variety of mathematical instruments. They had contributed significantly...
Advancing Pluralism in Teaching Economics
International Perspectives on a Textbook Science
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
The complex economic problems of the 21st century require a pluralist, real-world oriented and innovative discipline of economics that is capable of addressing and teaching these issues to students. This volume is a state-of-the-art compilation of diverse, innovative and international perspectives...
by W. Charles Sawyer, Richard L. Sprinkle
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Applied International Economics, 4th Edition offers a modern and accessible treatment of international economics, shifting the emphasis from pure theory to the application of theory by using some of the key tools of economic analysis. This new edition of the text formerly known as International Economics...
The Economics of Small Business
An Introductory Survey
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
This survey reviews research on the economics of small business, introducing key concepts for the understanding of the research, including some basic microeconomics, distribution functions, and concepts of entrepreneurship. Accessible to readers with elementary knowledge of economics and probability,...
Reintroducing Macroeconomics: A Critical Approach
A Critical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
This lively introduction to heterodox economics provides a balanced critique of the standard introductory macroeconomic curriculum. In clear and accessible prose, it explains many of the key principles that underlie a variety of alternative theoretical perspectives (including institutionalist economics,...
Doughnut Economics
Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
A Financial Times "Best Book of 2017: Economics”
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Economics is the mother tongue of public policy. It dominates our decision-making for the future, guides multi-billion-dollar investments, and shapes...