Theory Of Economics category: 2484 books
Cultural Economics and Theory
The Evolutionary Economics of David Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
David Hamilton is a leader in the American institutionalist school of heterodox economics that emerged after WWII. This volume includes 25 articles written by Hamilton over a period of nearly half a century. In these articles he examines the philosophical foundations and practical problems of economics....
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Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Most developed economies are characterized by high levels of inequality and an inability to provide stability or opportunity for many of their citizens. Mainstream economics has proven to be of little assistance in addressing these systemic failures, and this has led both scholars and students to...
Economics, Sustainability, and Democracy
Economics in the Era of Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
How should we conduct economics in an era of climate change, natural resource depletion and population increase? These issues are systemic, and involve great uncertainties and long time horizons. This book contends that the free-market economics that has dominated capitalist democracies in recent...
The Economics of Immigration
Theory and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
The Economics of Immigration is written as a both a reference for researchers and as a textbook on the economics of immigration. It is aimed at two audiences: (1) researchers who are interested in learning more about how economists approach the study of human migration flows; and (2) graduate students...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2018
This volume examines important topical issues in normative trade theory and welfare economics. In particular, it seeks to investigate how far the potential gainfulness of international trade can be extended in an increasingly globalized world. The first section focuses on the gains from trade in the...
by Vincent Crawford
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Essays in Economic Theory, first published in 1983, combines two essays on game theory and its applications in economics. The first, "Learning Behavior and the Noncooperative Equilibrium", considers whether an adaptive justification, like those commonly available for the optimization models frequently...
Rethinking Economics
From Analogies to the Real World
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
This brief responds to the criticism that mainstream economics is currently facing due to its heavy reliance on models and narrow range of quantitative research techniques. It takes a broader view, identifying issues that are also relevant for heterodox and pluralist approaches to economics. By acknowledging...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
The past twenty years have witnessed a surge in behavioral studies of law and law-related issues. These studies have challenged the application of the rational-choice model to legal analysis and introduced a more accurate and empirically grounded model of human behavior. This integration of economics,...
Selected Issues in Experimental Economics
Proceedings of the 2015 Computational Methods in Experimental Economics (CMEE) Conference
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
The aim of this volume is to provide deep insights and the latest scientific developments and trends in experimental economics. Derived from the 2015 Computational Methods in Experimental Economics (CMEE) conference, this book features papers containing research and analysis of economic experiments...
by Cristiano Antonelli
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
The ongoing process of revising and rethinking the foundations of economic theory leads to great complexities and contradictions at the heart of economics. ‘Economics of innovation’ provides a fertile challenge to standard economics, and one that can help it overcome its many criticisms.
This...
by Ulrich Schwalbe
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
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by James Mill
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
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James Mill made essential contributions to social theory, political theory and political economy as a Scottish historian, economist, political theorist, and philosopher. He was a founder of classical economics along...
Elements of an Evolutionary Theory of Welfare
Assessing Welfare When Preferences Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
It has always been an important task of economics to assess individual and social welfare. The traditional approach has assumed that the measuring rod for welfare is the satisfaction of the individual’s given and unchanging preferences, but recent work in behavioural economics has called this into...
The Three Economies
The hidden financial revolution changing economics, politics and investment forever
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
What is really going on in the economy? What are you not being told? What has changed since the 2008 financial crisis? What is the real purpose of QE? How does this impact ordinary people, and what can you do?
A THOUGHT-PROVOKING, MUST-READ BOOK
The Three...