Theory Of Economics category: 2484 books
Remaking Market Society
A Critique of Social Theory and Political Economy in Neoliberal Times
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Neoliberalism has been one of the most hotly contested themes in academic and political debate over the last 30 years. Given the global and persistent influence of neoliberal ideas on contemporary styles of governance, social-service provision, and public policy, this intensive interest is understandable....
The Economics of Addictive Behaviours Volume I
The Private and Social Costs of Smoking and Their Remedies
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
This title discusses the phenomenon of smoking as a behavioural disease and the associated costs. The author details the consequences of smoking, in addition to the detrimental effects caused by second-hand tobacco smoke exposure as a health risk to children as well as to the general public. The central...
The Fama Portfolio
Selected Papers of Eugene F. Fama
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Few scholars have been as influential in finance and economics as University of Chicago professor Eugene F. Fama. Over the course of a brilliant and productive career, Fama has published more than one hundred papers, filled with diverse, highly innovative contributions.
Published soon after...
by Victor Chapela, Regino Criado, Santiago Moral
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
This book combines game theory and complex networks to examine intentional technological risk through modeling. As information security risks are in constant evolution, the methodologies and tools to manage them must evolve to an ever-changing environment. A formal global methodology is explained...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
This book collects together the basic documents of an approach to the theory and policy of the balance of payments developed in the 1970s. The approach marked a return to the historical traditions of international monetary theory after some thirty years of departure from them – a departure occasioned...
by Åke E. Andersson, David Emanuel Andersson
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
In this challenging book, the authors demonstrate that economists tend to misunderstand capital. Frank Knight was an exception, as he argued that because all resources are more or less durable and have uncertain future uses they can consequently be classed as capital. Thus, capital rather than labor...
by Martin O'Donoghue
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
This book examines the economic issues of education from an unusually systematic and broad perspective. Although the book is soundly based in economic theory, it is not heavily mathematical.
Economic Dimensions in Education is designed to provide an introductory analysis of economic issues...
Modern Fiscal Issues
Essays in Honour of Carl S. Shoup
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1972
The contributors to this work, all leading economists in their own right, are a few of the many colleagues, former students, and friends of Carl Shoup who have benefitted from his many years as a leading teacher and scholar of public finance. They dedicate this book to their mentor on the occasion...
by Nanda K. Choudhry, Yehuda Kotowitz, John A. Sawyer
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1972
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1972
The TRACE (Toronto annual Canadian econometric) model is an annual, non-linear econometric model of the Canadian economy designed primarily to forecast the statistics which appear in the principal tables of the Canadian National Income and Expenditure Accounts. TRACE is the first Canadian econometric...
Economics and Social Conflict
Evil Actions and Evil Social Institutions in Virtual Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
This book brings to life the classic thought experiment of a natural state. Provides data on the economic aspects of social conflict of 400.000 people living in a virtual anarchy; showing evil actions and rules exist from an economic perspective. Non-instrumental violence has economic effects and inciting people to fight are not overcome in time.
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Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
Originally published in 1993, this book contains 4 studies on Asia: Bangladesh, India, South Korea and Sri Lanka. The studies reflect 4 different patterns of technological transformation. India, with its large populaiton has made considerable progress but its overall development has been slow until...
Studies in Labor Market Dynamics
Proceedings of a Workshop on Labor Market Dynamics Held at Sandbjerg, Denmark August 24 – 28, 1982
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This volume consists of papers presented at a conference on labor mar ket theory held in August 1982 at Sandbjerg - a manor house situated in S0nderjylland owned by University of Aarhus. The conference was ar ranged to mark the start of a labor market research project utilizing the first Danish...
Inequality and Power
The Economics of Class
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
This book is about the causes and consequences of economic inequality in the advanced market economies of today. It is common that in market systems people choose their own individual economic destinies, but of course the choices people make are importantly determined by the alternatives available...
Institutional Foundations of Impersonal Exchange
Theory and Policy of Contractual Registries
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Governments and development agencies spend considerable resources building property and company registries to protect property rights. When these efforts succeed, owners feel secure enough to invest in their property and banks are able use it as collateral for credit. Similarly, firms prosper when...