Theory Of Economics category: 2484 books
The Civil Service in Poland
Theory and Experience
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
The book analyzes the theoretical and practical aspects of civil service in Polish public administration and discusses it in a European context. While civil service is explored from a comparative, historical and systemic perspective, the study takes a close look at the history of Polish civil service...
The Economics of Addictive Behaviours Volume IV
The Private and Social Costs of Overeating and their Remedies
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
This title offers an in-depth analysis of the psychological causes and consequences of, and proposed interventions for over-eating. The author examines the history of obesity and its distribution by social class and geography, the environmental effects of overconsumption and economic remedies such...
Understanding Mattessich and Ijiri
A Study of Accounting Thought
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Richard Mattessich’s Accounting and Analytical Methods (1964) and Yuji Ijiri’s Theory of Accounting Measurement (1975) are two classic works of American accounting literature written by eminent scholars. Mattessich’s work contributed to the debate around the role of accountants in designing...
Liberalism against Liberalism
Theoretical Analysis of the Works of Ludwig von Mises and Gary Becker
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
The defence of the market and economic freedom have been the main objectives of the investigations by liberal thinkers such as Milton Friedman, Gary Becker, F Hayek and L Von Mises. Bearing in mind that the first two economists are the maximum exponents of the Chicago School and the last two of the...
Enacting Dismal Science
New Perspectives on the Performativity of Economics
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
In this book, sociologists, philosophers, and economists investigate the conceptual issues around the performativity of economics over a variety of disciplinary contexts and provide new case studies illuminating this phenomenon. In featuring the latest contributions to the performativity debate the...
The Job Guarantee and Modern Money Theory
Realizing Keynes’s Labor Standard
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
The contributors to this edited collection argue that a flexible Job Guarantee program able to react to an economy’s fluctuating need for work would stabilize the labor standard, the value of employment in relation to money. During economic downturns, the program would expand to provide more public...
Choice
Cooperation, Enterprise, and Human Action
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Human Action—a treatise on laissez-faire capitalism by Ludwig von Mises—is a historically important and classic publication on economics, and yet it can be an intimidating work due to its length and formal style. Choice: Cooperation, Enterprise, and Human Action, however, skillfully relays the...
by Eli Ginzberg
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
In one of the foremost critiques of the widespread view that in market-based economics the fluctuations of the marketplace are essentially self-regulating, Eli Ginzberg argues the reverse. He asserts that government regulation or intervention to provide stability in the capitalist marketplace is a...
by Christopher J. Berry
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
In 1776 Adam Smith (1723-90) wrote The Wealth of Nations , a book so foundational it has led to him being called the 'father of economics'. Today he is associated with the promotion of self-interest, a defence of greed and a criticism of any governmental 'interference' in market transactions which,...
by Hak Choi
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
This volume is part of Volume 40, and concentrates on the Search & Match Theory. In any country and at any time, there must be some unemployment (u), as well as some job vacancy (v). If there is a way to match them together, it will be welcome by both workers and employers. On a labor market graph,...
by Vincenzo Ruggiero
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
This book provides an analysis of the two concepts of power and crime and posits that criminologists can learn more about these concepts by incorporating ideas from disciplines outside of criminology. Although arguably a 'rendezvous' discipline, Vincenzo Ruggiero argues that criminology can gain much...
by Horst Siebert
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
As globalization continues apace, lines of communications are shortening and the boundaries between nations are becoming increasingly blurred. A global perspective is adopted on an increasing range of issues and this is particularly true of economics - no single nation can truly exist in isolation....
The Economics of Addictive Behaviours Volume III
The Private and Social Costs of the Abuse of Illicit Drugs and Their Remedies
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
This title offers an in-depth analysis of the causes, consequences and treatments of illicit drug abuse. The author examines the effects of existing drug policies and proposes drug use legalisation within a regulated market as a viable alternative. Joshua assesses the factors that make individuals...
by Thorstein Veblen
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
This eBook edition of "THE INSTINCT OF WORKMANSHIP & THE STATE OF THE INDUSTRIAL ARTS" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. "The following work attempts an analysis of such correlation as is visible between industrial use...