Economics category: 26433 books
Quantitative Economics in China
A Thirty-Year Review
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the fruitful achievement of China's Quantitative Economics during the past 30 years, assembling pioneering contributions of prominent quantitative economists in China. It chronicles significant events and the detailed evolution of Quantitative Economics...
Case Method and Pluralist Economics
Philosophy, Methodology and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2017
This book discusses the relationship between pluralist economics and the case study method of teaching, advocating the complimentary use of both to advance economics education. Using a multi-paradigmatic philosophical frame of analysis, the book discusses the philosophical, methodological, and practical...
by Hemanta Saikia
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
This book has been divided into Four Chapters. The Very Short Introductions series of Economics provides concise introductions to more subjects than a person can reasonably hope to know. We offer a brief, pointed look at Economics in this earlier volume in the series. A little learning is a dangerous...
Applied Approaches to Societal Institutions and Economics
Essays in Honor of Moriki Hosoe
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
This book gives readers the theoretical and empirical methods to analyze applied economics. They are institutional economics, information economics, environmental economics, international economics, financial economics, industrial organization, public economics, law and economics, and spatial economics....
Resource and Environmental Economics
Modern Issues and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2009
This important book deals with the essential principles of resource and environmental economics, provides applications to contemporary issues in this field, and outlines and assesses policies being used or proposed for managing the use of environmental and natural resources. Covering specific contemporary...
by Tom Bender
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
The Economics of True Sustainability
Here they are - the elements of truly sustainable economics that have been purposefully hidden from us. Happily, the principles of this new economics are simple, and understandable in plain English, and profoundly more beneficial than what we've had.
The...
Rethinking Economics
An Introduction to Pluralist Economics
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Economics is a broad and diverse discipline, but most economics textbooks only cover one way of thinking about the economy. This book provides an accessible introduction to nine different approaches to economics: from feminist to ecological and Marxist to behavioural. Each chapter is written by a...
A History of Heterodox Economics
Challenging the mainstream in the twentieth century
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Economics is a contested academic discipline between neoclassical economics and a collection of alternative approaches, such as Marxism-radical economics, Institutional economics, Post Keynesian economics, and others, that can collectively be called heterodox economics. Because of the dominance of...
The Morality of Radical Economics
Ghost Curve Ideology and the Value Neutral Aspect of Neoclassical Economics
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
This book is in equal parts a treatise on morality and economics, a critique of neoclassical orthodoxy, a brief for replacing mainstream economics with a radical political economics, and an argument for the abandonment of neoliberal capitalism in favor of democratic socialism. It includes a detailed...
by Anthony Anamgba
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Economics is a social science that deals with production, distribution, exchange and consumption of goods and services.
Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.
It is in this lucid manner that...
Terms of Trade
Glossary of International Economics
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Have you ever wondered what a term in international economics means? This useful reference book offers a glossary of terms in both international trade and international finance, with emphasis on economic issues. It is intended for students getting their first exposure to international economics, although...
From Economics to Political Economy
The problems, promises and solutions of pluralist economics
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
The discipline of economics has been increasingly criticized for its inability to illuminate the workings of the real world and to provide reliable policy guidance for the major economic and social challenges of our time.
A central problem in contemporary economics, and a problem from which...
Economics in Three Lessons and One Hundred Economics Laws
Two Works in One Volume
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Economics in Three LessonsHenry Hazlitt's 1946 book Economics in One Lesson sold more than a million copies. It is perhaps the best selling economics book of all time. In this volume, Hunter Lewis, a Hazlitt admirer and student, provides a sequel and update. The central lesson of Hazlitt's seminal work...
by Michael H. Turk
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
How scientific is economics? This question has often been framed by analogies and correspondences made between economics and other, seemingly more well-established scientific disciplines, starting with classical mechanics. At the same time economics is likely to be seen in opposition to or in contrast...