Theory Of Economics category: 2484 books
Equilibrium Theory for Cournot Oligopolies and Related Games
Essays in Honour of Koji Okuguchi
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
This state-of-the-art collection of papers on the theory of Cournotian competition focuses on two main subjects: oligopolistic Cournot competition and contests. The contributors present various applications of the Cournotian Equilibrium Theory, addressing topics such as equilibrium existence and...
Science Outside the Laboratory
Measurement in Field Science and Economics
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
The conduct of most of social science occurs outside the laboratory. Such studies in field science explore phenomena that cannot for practical, technical, or ethical reasons be explored under controlled conditions. These phenomena cannot be fully isolated from their environment or investigated by...
The Evolution of Economies
Money-bargaining, economic change and industrial revolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
It is clear even to casual observation that economies evolve from year to year and over centuries. Yet mainstream economic theory assumes that economies always move towards equilibrium. One consequence of this is that mainstream theory is unable to deal with economic history.
The Evolution...
The Last Empires
Governing Ourselves, Our Nations, and Our World
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
This book is a forthright and novel examination of efforts to improve national and global governance over the last forty years. Much has changed since Michel Foucault considered, and rejected, economics and neoliberalism as a potential mechanism for individuals to govern themselves and their nations....
Economics in Two Lessons
Why Markets Work So Well, and Why They Can Fail So Badly
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
A masterful introduction to the key ideas behind the successes—and failures—of free-market economics
Since 1946, Henry Hazlitt’s bestselling Economics in One Lesson has popularized the belief that economics can be boiled down to one simple lesson: market prices represent the true cost...
by Hak Choi
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Bargaining is the theory of splitting of, say, $100 to two persons or more. Some suggest the simple 50/50 rule, some suggest splitting according to utility or marginal utility, some let the Almighty split, while some coordinate to split, etc. But none of the results satisfies the parties involved....
Experimental Economics
Volume I: Economic Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
How do humans make choices, both when facing nature and when interacting with one another? Experimental Economics Volume I seeks to answer these questions by examining individual's choices in strategic settings and predicting choices based on experimental methodology.
The Engineers & the Price System
From the Author of The Theory of the Leisure Class, The Theory of Business Enterprise, Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution & The Higher Learning in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
This eBook edition of "The Engineers & the Price System” has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The Engineers and the Price System is a compilation of a series of papers, each of which mainly analyzes and criticizes the price system,...
by Bruno Jossa
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Marx claims that unselfishness is a child of (workplace) culture, whereas the gene is selfish. If Marx is right then the prerequisite for overthrowing capitalism is a system which both leverages selfishness and creates solidarity between workers. This book illustrates and discusses the major points...
Interdisciplinary Studies of the Market Order
New Applications of Market Process Theory
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Market process theory is crucial to our knowledge and expectations of actors working toward economic coordination and cooperation. In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, there has been a renewed interested in using new applications of market process theory to better understand the global political...
by Léon Walras
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2010
Léon Walras (1834–1910) is one of the four or five most important economic theorists in the history of the science. The present book is a complete English translation of the second edition (1936) of his Études d’économie sociale (1896), in which he applies economic theory to real problems,...
Postmodern Portfolio Theory
Navigating Abnormal Markets and Investor Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
This survey of portfolio theory, from its modern origins through more sophisticated, “postmodern” incarnations, evaluates portfolio risk according to the first four moments of any statistical distribution: mean, variance, skewness, and excess kurtosis. In pursuit of financial models that more...
From Economics to Political Economy
The problems, promises and solutions of pluralist economics
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
The discipline of economics has been increasingly criticized for its inability to illuminate the workings of the real world and to provide reliable policy guidance for the major economic and social challenges of our time.
A central problem in contemporary economics, and a problem from which...
by K. William Kapp
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
This is a ground-breaking book about the foundations of institutional economics. K. William Kapp presents the economic role of institutions for economic development, capital formation and technological dynamics in an easily accessible and comprehensive manner. As a front-rank 20th century institutional...