Economics category: 26433 books
Bad Economics
Pestilent Economists, Profligate Governments, Debt, Dependency & Despair
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Bad Economics is a book for everyone who wants to understand why things have gone wrong rather than slavishly accepting the mainstream version of events. It takes on the illusions and delusions which regularly shape economic policy. Absolutely no knowledge of economics is needed; only common sense and...
The New Economics
A Bigger Picture
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2009
Economics sometimes seems to be stacked against social, environmental and individual well-being. But it doesn't have to be like this. A new approach to economics - deriving as much from Ruskin and Schumacher as from Keynes or Smith - has begun to emerge. Skeptical about money as a measure of success,...
Economics After the Crisis
An Introduction to Economics from a Pluralist and Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Economics After the Crisis is an introductory economics textbook, covering key topics in micro and macro economics. However, this book differs from other introductory economics textbooks in the perspective it takes, and it incorporates issues that are presently underserved by existing textbooks on...
by E. Roy Weintraub, Barbara Herrnstein Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2002
In How Economics Became a Mathematical Science E. Roy Weintraub traces the history of economics through the prism of the history of mathematics in the twentieth century. As mathematics has evolved, so has the image of mathematics, explains Weintraub, such as ideas about the standards for accepting...
by Dani Rodrik
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
“A hugely valuable contribution. . . . In setting out a defence of the best in economics, Rodrik has also provided a goal for the discipline as a whole.” —Martin Sandbu, Financial Times
In the wake of the financial crisis and the Great Recession, economics seems anything but a science....
Routledge Handbook of Ecological Economics
Nature and Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Since becoming formally established with an international academic society in the late 1980s, ecological economics has advanced understanding of the interactions between social and biophysical reality. It initially combined questioning of the basis of mainstream economics with a concern for environmental...
The Routledge Handbook of Heterodox Economics
Theorizing, Analyzing, and Transforming Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
The Routledge Handbook of Heterodox Economics presents a comprehensive overview of the latest work on economic theory and policy from a ‘pluralistic’ heterodox perspective.
Contributions throughout the Handbook explore different theoretical perspectives including: Marxian-radical political...
Economics as a Social Science
An Approach to Nonautistic Theory
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Economics as a Social Science is a highly readable critique of economic theory, based on a wide range of research, that endeavors to restore economics to its proper role as a social science. Contrary to conventional economic theory, which assumes that people have no free will, this book instead bases...
by John Yinger
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Lecture Notes in Urban Economics and Urban Policy provides a wide-ranging introduction to urban economics and urban policy by Professor John Yinger, one of the world's leading scholars in urban economics. It draws on his extensive teaching and publication record to provide detailed lecture notes for...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
There is no doubt that behavioral economics is becoming a dominant lens through which we think about economics. Behavioral economics is not a single school of thought but representative of a range of approaches, and uniquely, this volume presents an overview of them.
The wide spectrum of international...
by Graham Mallard
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Economics Nobel Laureate Herbert Simon developed the concept of bounded rationality in the 1950s. This asserts that the cognitive abilities of human decision-makers are not always sufficient to find optimal solutions to complex real-life problems, leading decision-makers to find satisfactory, sub-optimal...
The Cartoon Introduction to Economics
Volume One: Microeconomics
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2010
The award-winning illustrator Grady Klein has paired up with the world's only stand-up economist, Yoram Bauman, PhD, to take the dismal out of the dismal science. From the optimizing individual to game theory to price theory, The Cartoon Introduction to Economics is the most digestible, explicable,...
by Edward T. Dowling
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2000
The ideal review for your intro to mathematical economics course
More than 40 million students have trusted Schaum’s Outlines for their expert knowledge and helpful solved problems. Written by renowned experts in their respective fields, Schaum’s Outlines cover everything from math to science,...
The Oxford Handbook of Law and Economics
Volume 3: Public Law and Legal Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
Covering over one-hundred topics on issues ranging from Law and Neuroeconomics to European Union Law and Economics to Feminist Theory and Law and Economics, The Oxford Handbook of Law and Economics is the definitive work in the field of law and economics. The book gathers together scholars and experts...