Economics category: 26433 books
Positive Ethics in Economics
Volume 14, Praxiology: The International Annual of Practical Philosophy and Methodology
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Economics is often accused of being "a-ethical" - lacking a moral perspective - if not altogether immoral. Its detractors criticize economic models of pure and perfect competition, and claim that economics should be concerned with social effects and strive to be equitable. Yet, these critics...
Economics and Other Disciplines
Assessing New Economic Currents
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
During the second half of the twentieth century, economics exported its logic – utility maximization – to the analysis of several human activities or realities: a tendency that has been called “economic imperialism”. This book explores the concept termed by John Davis as “reverse imperialism”,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
This Handbook offers an up-to-date collection of research on agricultural economics. Drawing together scholarship from experts at the top of their profession and from around the world, this collection provides new insights into the area of agricultural economics.
The Routledge Handbook of Agricultural...
by Yoshinori Shiozawa, Masashi Morioka, Kazuhisa Taniguchi
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2019
This book provides for the first time the microfoundations of evolutionary economics, enabling the reader to grasp a new framework for economic analysis that is compatible with evolutionary processes. Any independent approach to economics must include a value theory (or price theory) and price and...
by Masudul Alam Choudhury
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2019
The theme of circular causation has nascent origin in the field of sociology of economics with vast development applications and with epistemological issues on modeling in the framework of the phenomenon of pervasive interconnectedness. Thus the sociological theme of epistemic unity of knowledge grounds...
Principles and Pluralist Approaches in Teaching Economics
Towards a Transformative Science
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2019
This volume is a state-of-the-art compilation of diverse and innovative perspectives, principles, and a number of practiced approaches of fields, courses, and methods of pluralist economics teaching. It fosters constructive controversy aiming to incite authors and commentators to engage in fruitful...
Sacred Economics
Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity, destroyed community, and necessitated endless growth. Today, these trends have reached their extreme—but in the...
From Political Economy to Economics
Method, the social and the historical in the evolution of economic theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Economics has become a monolithic science, variously described as formalistic and autistic with neoclassical orthodoxy reigning supreme. So argue Dimitris Milonakis and Ben Fine in this new major work of critical recollection. The authors show how economics was once rich, diverse, multidimensional...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Economics is the nexus and engine that runs society, affecting societal well-being, raising standards of living when economies prosper or lowering citizens through class structures when economies perform poorly. Our society only has to witness the booms and busts of the past decade to see how economics...
The New World of Economics
A Remake of a Classic for New Generations of Economics Students
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
The New World of Economics, 6th edition, by Richard McKenzie and Gordon Tullock, represents a revival of a classic text that, when it was first published, changed substantially the way economics would be taught at the introductory and advanced levels of economics for all time. In a very real sense,...
Real Estate Economics
A Point-to-Point Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Real Estate Economics: A point-to-point handbook introduces the main tools and concepts of real estate (RE) economics. It covers areas such as the relation between RE and the macro-economy, RE finance, investment appraisal, taxation, demand and supply, development, market dynamics and price bubbles,...
by IntroBooks
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Early traders dealt with competition on a relatively smaller scale as we do today. Most businesses were run mainly on the business acumen and knowledge of the trader without much study about the theories that ruled the world of business. While Economics has existed as a branch of knowledge since the...
by Peter Antonioni, Sean Masaki Flynn
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2010
Untangle the jargon and understand how you're involved in everyday economics
If you want to get to grips with the basics of economics and understand a subject that affects British citizens on a daily basis, then look no further than Economics For Dummies. This easy to understand guide takes...
Philosophy of Economics
A Contemporary Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Philosophy of Economics: A Contemporary Introduction is the first systematic textbook in the philosophy of economics. It introduces the epistemological, metaphysical and ethical problems that arise in economics, and presents detailed discussions of the solutions that have been offered.
Throughout,...