Theory Of Economics category: 2484 books
by Hak Choi
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2018
What is bargaining? What is game theory? These two topics were initiated by John Nash. But did he solve the the bargaining problem? Did he love playing games? This book will give you three surprising answers. His distribution solution is unfair, and does not reach the vertex of social welfare. His way of playing game or war is not only self-defeating, but also laughable.
by A. Thirlwall
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
This volume of essays contains 16 papers the author has written over the last 40 years on various aspects of the life and work of John Maynard Keynes and Nicholas Kaldor. It covers both theoretical and applied topics and highlight the continued relevance of Keynesian and Kaldorian ideas for understanding the functioning of capitalist economies.
Recent Advances and Future Directions in Causality, Prediction, and Specification Analysis
Essays in Honor of Halbert L. White Jr
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
This book is a collection of articles that present the most recent cutting edge results on specification and estimation of economic models written by a number of the world’s foremost leaders in the fields of theoretical and methodological econometrics. Recent advances in asymptotic approximation...
The History of Economic Thought
A Reader; Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
From the ancients to the moderns, questions of economic theory and policy have been an important part of intellectual and public debate, engaging the attention of some of history’s greatest minds. This book brings together readings from more than two thousand years of writings on economic subjects....
Beyond Capitalism & Socialism
A New Statement of an Old Ideal
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
Explaining the socio-economic theory of distributism, this anthology argues that political, economic, and social liberties and freedom are penalized under both socialism and capitalism. With distributism-and other "third way" alternatives to capitalism-the human person, the family, and...
Co-Designing Economies in Transition
Radical Approaches in Dialogue with Contemplative Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
This transdisciplinary volume puts forward proposals for wiser, socially just and sustainable socio-economic systems in transition. There is growing support for the view that the end of capitalism is around the corner, but on which conceptual and ethical basis can we interpret these times? With investigations...
Brand Society
How Brands Transform Management and Lifestyle
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
Brands are a fait accompli: they represent a mountain range of evidence in search of a theory. They are much exploited, but little explored. In this book, Martin Kornberger sets out to rectify the ratio between exploiting and exploring through sketching out a theory of the Brand Society. Most attempts...
The Economics of Addictive Behaviours Volume II
The Private and Social Costs of the Abuse of Alcohol and Their Remedies
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
This title discusses the phenomenon of alcohol abuse as a behavioural disease and the associated costs. The author details alcohol’s status as a psychoactive drug; he notes, however, that in contrast to other psychoactive drugs, alcohol has been widely culturally accepted in Western countries and...
Signaling Goodness
Social Rules and Public Choice
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Political, intellectual, and academic discourse in the United States has been awash in political correctness, which has itself been berated and defended -- yet little understood. As a corrective, Nelson and Greene look at a more general process: adopting political positions to enhance one's reputation...
Bearing Society in Mind
Theories and Politics of the Social Formation
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Political and economic models of society often operate at a level of abstraction so high that the connections between them, and their links to culture, are beyond reach. Bearing Society in Mind challenges these disciplinary boundaries and proposes an alternative framework—the social formation.
The...
Book Review: Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen
A new approach to development
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
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Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen advocates a new outlook on development: whereas orthodox development thinking has a one-sided focus on economic...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
The Research in the History of Economic Methodology (RHETM) 34A, includes original research from preeminent scholars in the field. RHETM is one of the oldest and most respected publications in the field, and the Vol 34A is crucial for economists, methodologists, and historians of the social sciences.
Radical, Religious, and Violent
The New Economics of Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Applying fresh tools from economics to explain puzzling behaviors of religious radicals: Muslim, Christian, and Jewish; violent and benign.
How do radical religious sects run such deadly terrorist organizations? Hezbollah, Hamas, Lashkar-e-Taiba, and the Taliban all began as religious groups...
The Legal-Economic Nexus
Fundamental Processes
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2007
Providing another key contribution to the immensely popular field of law and economics, this book, written by the doyen of the history of economic thought in the US, explores the dynamic relationship between economics, law and polity.Combining a selection of old and new essays by Warren J. Samuels that chart a number of key themes, it provides an i