Theory Of Economics category: 2484 books

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Parse of China

Gradual Reform Logic Based on Bargaining Game

by Yilun Tong
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017

This book focuses on the gradual reform of Chinese society since China’s opening up to the world, and gives a unified explanation of the process based on bargaining theory. It studies institutional changes as a non-violent bargaining process in which different parties constantly make adjustments...
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Worst-Case Economics

Extreme Events in Climate and Finance

by Frank Ackerman
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017

Worst-case scenarios are all too real, and all too common. The financial crisis of 2008 was not the first or the last to destroy jobs, homeownership and the savings of millions of people. Hurricanes clobber communities from New York to Bangladesh. How bad will the next catastrophe be, and how soon...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016

Do the languages people speak influence their economic decisions and social behavior in multilingual societies? This Handbook brings together scholars from various disciplines to examine the links and tensions between economics and language to find the delicate balance between monetary benefits and psychological costs of linguistic dynamics.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017

Adam Smith’s contribution to economics is well-recognised, but in recent years scholars have been exploring anew the multidisciplinary nature of his works. The Adam Smith Review is a refereed annual review that provides a unique forum for interdisciplinary debate on all aspects of Adam Smith’s...
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by Alfred Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014

The book has an active table of contents for easy access to each chapter. Marshall is in the row with the greatest economists Adam Smith, David Ricardo, John Keynes, John Locke, Frederic Bastiat, and John Stuart Mill. He coined the important economic concept of price elasticity of demand to...
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The Making of Experimental Economics

Witness Seminar on the Emergence of a Field

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Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015

This book is the transcript of a witness seminar on the history of experimental economics, in which eleven high-profile experimental economists participated, including Nobel Laureates Vernon Smith, Reinhard Selten and Alvin Roth. The witness seminar was constructed along four different topics: skills,...
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by Arthur Cecil Pigou
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013

First Published in 1968. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Now Utopia

A Political Philosophy for the 21st Century designed to save humanity from itself.

by Reggie Adams
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013

Now Utopia begins as a very insightful and multi-disciplined analysis of the current UK and global economic, social and environmental crisis. It provides a historic context of the human journey and examples of the emerging alternative mindset of the internet generation described as 'our technological...
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Rediscovering Social Economics

Beyond the Neoclassical Paradigm

by Roger D. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017

This book argues that economists need to reengage with societal issues, such as justice and fairness in distribution, that inevitably arise when discussing the basic economic problem of unlimited human wants and finite resources. Approaching the problem through a history of economic thought, Johnson...
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by J. E. King
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015

Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.
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Leveraging

A Political, Economic and Societal Framework

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Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014

This book considers the current domestic and global political and economic landscape and  will show that there are three different but related kinds of leverage that together have emerged as the dominant strategy in economics, politics and international relations. The economic crisis of 2008-09...
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Beyond Self

Ethical and Spiritual Dimensions of Economics

by Laszlo Zsolnai
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014

This book addresses ethical and spiritual issues in economics. The central idea advanced in the book is that the extreme focus on the self by economic actors leads to the destruction of both material and non-material values. The assumptions of self-interest in behavior represent the core of mainstream...
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by John O'Neill
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013

What is the source of our environmental problems? Why is there in modern societies a persistent tendency to environmental damage? From within neoclassical economic theory there is a straightforward answer to those questions: it is because environmental goods and harms are unpriced. They come free. This...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013

This volume concentrates on international issues that relate to economic policies and governance. It is essential reading for all postgraduates and scholars looking for expert discussion and debate of the issues surrounding the case for new economic policies at the global level.
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