Economic theory and philosophy

The Theory of Taxation and Public Economics presents a unified conceptual framework for analyzing taxation--the first to be systematically developed in several decades.

Economic Methodology explores the status and character of economics as a social science and introduces students to philosophical issues underlying modern science.

The financial crisis that started in 2007 is a concern for the world.

The Political Economy of Diet and Health continues the exploration of food systems theory begun in the author's previous publications.

This book takes a radical approach to ecological economics, proposing a new paradigm based on earth systems science.

Success in today's business environment may seem difficult or elusive for those who desire to conduct themselves with integrity.

A lot of economic problems can be formulated as constrained optimizations and equilibration of their solutions.

The term "e;human economics"e; is sometimes used within economic theory with the hope of repositioning economic discipline as a human and social science, but with scarce success.

This textbook introduces graduate and upper undergraduate students to Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) models.

This book is a textual criticism of modern ideas about the work of Adam Smith that offers a new perspective on many of his famous contributions to economic thought.

This book brings together a collection of essays by progressive global activists in response to Samir Amin's call for a new global organization of progressive workers and peoples.

The primary goal of the book is to present the ideas and research findings of active researchers from various communities (physicists, economists, mathematicians, financial engineers) working in the field of "e;Econophysics"e;, who have undertaken the task of modelling and analyzing order-driven markets.

From the bestselling author of Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism: John Shelby Spong's original groundbreaking classic, now newly revised, reveals the Jesus "e;behind the language of myth, magic, and superstition.

In the global economy, linguistic diversity influences economic and political development as well as public policies in positive and negative ways.

Dieses Buch unterstützt Studierende bei der Anfertigung wissenschaftlicher Arbeiten mit einem quantitativen Fokus.

The development of European unification has reached a critical stage.

This book represents the second of three volumes offering a complete reinterpretation and restructuring of Keynesian macroeconomics and a detailed investigation of the disequilibrium adjustment processes characterizing the financial, the goods and the labour markets and their interaction.

Policy scientists have long been concerned with understanding the basic tools, or instruments, that governments can use to accomplish their goals.

Redistribution is one of the most fundamental issues in welfare economics.

This book presents the main ideas on shifting the economy, finance, and banking sectors among ASEAN countries into a new paradigm.

German industry in particular is a central focus for studying technical and organizational changes in industry due to its pivotal position in international markets, its technological sophistication and its well-established training systems.

Alongside other types of mass atrocities, genocide has received extensive scholarly, policy, and practitioner attention.

Much ink has been spilled in attempts to prove that humans are only animals and are, like other species, only aggressive.

Though Cannan, in his early years as an economist, was a critic of classical economics and an ally of interventionists, he moved sharply to the side of classical liberalism in the early 20th century.

Macroeconomics has undergone profound changes since the Keynesian consensus broke down in the mid-60s.

In this wide ranging exposition of the various economic theories of technological change, Stanislaw Gomulka relates them to rates of growth experienced by different economies in both the short and the long term.

This sweeping sociological analysis traces the emergence of intellectual property as a new type of legal property.

John Grieve Smith traces the origins of postwar full employment policies in the experience of the interwar years and the work of Keynes and Beveridge.

Economics has always been nicknamed the “dismal science,” but today the field seems a little more dismal than usual as governments, social movements, and even students complain that the discipline is failing to make sense of the major economic problems of the day.

This book is a series of vignettes about changes to Australian institutions, organisations and systems that have significantly improved economic and social well-being for Australians.

The nature of the economic cycle has been a long-standing problem for economists, given much attention by especially Malthus, Marx and Keynes.

Economic Modeling Using Artificial Intelligence Methods examines the application of artificial intelligence methods to model economic data.

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This book addresses two-person zero-sum finite games in which the payoffs in any situation are expressed with fuzzy numbers.

Milton Friedman (1912-2006) was one of the most important 20th century advocates of libertarian and conservative ideas in academia and amongst the wider public.

As the real world is rapidly becoming more and more complicated, economists need to venture beyond the boundaries of mainstream economics and integrate philosophical thought and complexity into their analytical frameworks.

This is a book about the discovery of macroeconomic ideas and concepts long before the term macroeconomics had been coined.

This succinct overview of Marshall's life and work as an economist sets his major economic contributions in perspective, by looking at his education, his travel, his teaching at Cambridge, Oxford and Bristol, his policy views as presented to government inquiries and his political and social opinions.

This book provides an accessible introduction to causal inference and data analysis with R, specifically for a public policy audience.

An argument that conceiving of economic value as a social force makes it possible to develop a new and more powerful theory of market behavior.

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.