Economic theory and philosophy

This book approaches economic problems from a systems thinking and feedback perspective.

This book explores the origins of Arthur Laffer's economic theories and how they became a part of mainstream economic policy.

How would Plato have responded if his student Aristotle had ever challenged his idea that our senses perceive nothing more than the shadows cast upon a wall by a true world of perfect ideals?

This book proposes a new capital asset pricing model dubbed the ZCAPM that outperforms other popular models in empirical tests using US stock returns.

This book paints a portrait of social life in America by providing an accessible discussion of empirical economics research on issues such as illegal immigration, health care and climate change.

This book on counting statistics presents a novel copula-based approach to counting dependent random events.

This book provides a methodology for the analysis of oligopolistic markets from an equilibrium viewpoint, considering competition within and between groups of firms.

This book consists of a dialogue between two interlocutors, Pablo and a student, who discuss a great range of issues in social philosophy and political theory, and in particular, the emergence, working properties and economic effects of institutions.

This textbook explains comprehensively and in rigorous detail not only mainstream microeconomics, but also why many economists are dissatisfied with major aspects of it, and the alternative that they are exploring in response: the Classical-Keynesian-Kaleckian approach.

This volume presents interviews that have been conducted from the 1980s to the present with important scholars of social choice and welfare theory.

This book argues for the abolition of the employment system in favor of workplace democracy and thus escapes the usual capitalism-versus-socialism binary choice by reframing the basic issue as the employment contract, not private property or a market economy.

Dynamic programming (DP) has a relevant history as a powerful and flexible optimization principle, but has a bad reputation as a computationally impractical tool.

This book examines the relationship that prevails between the state and freedom in the works of Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek, as well as those of some of their peers, including Gary Becker, James Buchanan, and George Stigler.

This handbook provides an overview on major developments that occurred in the field of economic sociology after its rebirth since the 1980s in the US.

Economic, social, political, and cultural institutions, and institutional change reflect shared journeys of humanity throughout history.

This book is devoted to the study of a class of optimal control problems arising in mathematical economics, related to the Robinson-Solow-Srinivasan (RSS) model.

This book explores the question of whether and how meme theory or "e;memetics"e; can be fruitfully utilized in evolutionary economics and proposes an approach known as "e;economemetics"e; which is a combination of meme theory and complexity theory that has the potential to combat the fragmentation of evolutionary economics while re-connecting the field with cultural evolutionary theory.

This book is an exploration of the ubiquity of ambiguity in decision-making under uncertainty.

The University of Oxford has been and continues to be one of the most important global centres for economics.

This book deals with the effect of public and semi-public companies on economy.

This book addresses the comparative history of economic thought in Central European countries where there is a notable common historic heritage and political traits.

This book gathers several important texts to offer an overview of the institutionalist approach to money developed in France since the 1980s.

This book explores an alternative approach to the conventional, market-based, view of economic theory and economic policy, at theoretical, numerical and applicable levels.

This book is the very first book-length study devoted to the advances in technological development and systems research in cooperative economics.

This volume of intellectual biography takes the Italian economist, sociologist, political scientist Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923) from his disillusionment with liberal and pacifist activism, to the original development of pure economics and the composition of his Treatise on General Sociology and the test of this latter on the war and post-war events.

This book explores the neglected contribution of the American and English "e;psychological"e; school to economic theory, especially to the development and refinement of the Austrian school of economics.

This contributed volume collects talks originally given at the 18th International Symposium on Dynamic Games and Applications, held in Grenoble, France from July 9-12, 2018.

How should we address today's big problems, and what we can take from icons of economics past?

This book presents a selection of peer-reviewed contributions on the latest advances in time series analysis, presented at the International Conference on Time Series and Forecasting (ITISE 2019), held in Granada, Spain, on September 25-27, 2019.

This book develops a general economic theory that integrates various economic theories and ideas and establishes important relationships between economic variables that are not formally recognized in the economic literature.

This book demonstrates the continuing relevance of Marx's critique of the capitalist system, in which value is simply equated with market price.

In a series of conversational essays, this textbook discusses the manner in which economic thought addresses a broad array of everyday issues beyond classical textbook treatments.

This book presents the state of the art in the relatively new field of dynamic economic modelling with regime switches.

This book discloses the economic foundations of European fiscal and monetary policies by introducing readers to an array of alternative approaches in economics.

This handbook presents emerging research exploring the theoretical and practical aspects of econometric techniques for the financial sector and their applications in economics.

This textbook offers a comprehensive introduction to panel data econometrics, an area that has enjoyed considerable growth over the last two decades.

This Palgrave Pivot presents theoretical models that explain common historical sequences, such as wars of secession, the rise and fall of empires, and international war.

This tutorial is the first comprehensive introduction to (possibly infinite) linear systems containing strict inequalities and evenly convex sets.

Reflecting the diverse and profound changes triggered by the latest wave of economic globalization, this book highlights various governance responses at national, regional and global levels.

Tiziano Raffaelli (Pisa 1950) was a widely esteemed scholar in the field of the history and methodology of economics, who died suddenly in January 2016 while still in the midst of working and of developing projects for new lines of research.

This book analyses decision-making in dynamic economic environments.

This book analyses ancient Greek federalism by focusing on one of the most organised and advanced Greek federal states, the Achaean Federation Sympoliteia.

This book hinges upon ideas and discourses variously known under labels such as "e;Mercantilism"e; and "e;Cameralism"e;.

The book shows the ideological underpinning of the economist's work, and the ideological perspectives are those that have largely prevailed in the last couple of centuries: liberalism, nationalism and socialism.

This book presents the best papers from the 2nd International Conference on Mathematical Research for Blockchain Economy (MARBLE) 2020, held in Vilamoura, Portugal.

This volume gathers peer-reviewed contributions on data analysis, classification and related areas presented at the 28th Conference of the Section on Classification and Data Analysis of the Polish Statistical Association, SKAD 2019, held in Szczecin, Poland, on September 18-20, 2019.

This book aims to define comparative economics and to illustrate the breadth and depth of its contribution.

This book applies game theory to the phenomenon of terrorism and investigates how the competition for support can influence the attack behavior of terror organizations.

This book provides the theoretical and analytical background critical to understand the process of economic development and growth at the beginning of the 21st century.

This book discusses Samuel Pufendorf and his contributions to the development of the European Enlightenment and the emergence of economics as a social science.