Theory Of Economics category: 2484 books

First published in 1896, this seminal work considers the Question of the Unemployed at the height of imperialist capitalism. Hobson proposes a controversial theory of social progress, which argues that unemployment is a natural and necessary result of the mal-distribution of consumption power. In...

Complexity science—made possible by modern analytical and computational advances—is changing the way we think about social systems and social theory. Unfortunately, economists' policy models have not kept up and are stuck in either a market fundamentalist or government control narrative. While...

Theories of the Labour Market and Employment: A Review This is a detailed and wide-ranging study of theory, research and methods of analyzing labour markets and employment. Free and flexible labour markets can automatically end both labour surpluses (unemployment) and labour shortages...

The book has an active table of contents for readers to access each chapter. The book had a considerable impact on the history of social psychology, psychopathology, and investment method. The book also produced important impact on the research topics of economic bubbles, pseudoscience,...

A common set of mathematical tools underlies dynamic optimization, dynamic estimation, and filtering. In Recursive Models of Dynamic Linear Economies, Lars Peter Hansen and Thomas Sargent use these tools to create a class of econometrically tractable models of prices and quantities. They present examples...

The book has an active table of contents for easy access to each chapter of the following titles: 1. DRAUGHT OF A NEW PLAN FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE JUDICIAL ESTABLISHMENT IN FRANCE – JEREMY BENTHAM 2. DRAUGHT FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF JUDICIAL ESTABLISHMENTS, COMPARED WITH THAT...

The book has an active table of contents for easy access to each chapter. Jeremy Bentham was a British philosopher, jurist, social reformer and the founder of modern utilitarianism. He is in the row with the greatest thinkers Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, John Keynes, John Locke, and Alfred...

A century after his birth, this volume presents a re-assessment of the life and work of Piero Sraffa, one of the great economists of the twentieth century. From his anti-Marshallian articles of 1925 and 1926 to his classic work on the theory of capital, Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities, Sraffa's contribution to the study of economi

The book has an active table of contents for easy access to each chapter of the following titles: 1. Letters of David Hume to William Strahan – David Hume 2. My Own Life – David Hume David Hume was a Scottish historian, philosopher, and economist in the row with the greatest...

Theories of Industrial Modernization and Development: A Review This is a detailed and wide-ranging study of theory, research, and methods of analyzing industrial-economic modernization and development. The book covers social, cultural, and behavioural models, enterprise growth, and developments...

The Wealth of Nations explains financial productivity (and barriers) for individuals, companies and nations, using clear descriptions and classical examples. It has long been heralded as the conceptual building material for capitalism and the “free-trade” economy, and also as a key contributor...

This book analyzes privatization in Ireland, a European economy that has experienced rapidly changing fortunes over the last thirty years. It examines the effects of privatization in terms of corporate performance, public finances and the distributional aspects of privatization including the impact on employment and share ownership.

This book advocates domestic free trade, because many countries do not have it. This book describes how a country first resists foreign free trade, then resists domestic free trade. This book proves that the absence of domestic free trade is more disastrous than the absence of foreign free trade.

First published in 1952, this work is a systematic exposition of Professor Meade’s geometric method, bringing together into a single coherent account the modern geometrical analysis of the theory of international trade. The work makes a number of original contributions, notably in the geometrical...