Economic theory and philosophy

Scapegoats are innocent victims who have experienced blame and violence at the hands of society.

Game Theory - the formal modelling of conflict and cooperation - first emerged as a recognized field with a publication of John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern's Theory of Games and Economic Behaviour in 1944.

This volume contains the post-proceedings of the 8th Doctoral Workshop on Mathematical and Engineering Methods in Computer Science, MEMICS 2012, held in Znojmo, Czech Republic, in October, 2012.

Over the past few years, Marx's Capital has received renewed academic and popular attention.

This book, based on in-depth field research at the local level, assesses the different factors that are contributing to the transition to a market economy and the growth of networks in rural China.

From the field's leading authority, the most authoritative and comprehensive advanced-level textbook on asset pricingIn Financial Decisions and Markets, John Campbell, one of the field's most respected authorities, provides a broad graduate-level overview of asset pricing.

This book analyzes the revenues from the creation of currency by a central government.

There has been an increasing interest in financial markets across sociology, history, anthropology, cultural studies, and related disciplines over the past decades, with particular intensity since the 2007-2008 crisis which prompted new analyses of the workings of financial markets and how "e;scandals of Wall Street"e; might have huge societal ramifications.

This book aims to develop an institutional approach to general economic equi- librium.

Is neuroeconomics a flimsy fad likely to pass without leaving a discernible trace in economics?

First published in 1987, Alfred Marshall: Progress and Politics provides an enlightening insight into Marshall's thoughts on social improvement, adaptive upgrading, policy and polity.

This book uses economic theory to argue that labor-managed firms are rare due to market failures rather than any inherent organizational defects.

The book focuses on different practices of associated labor in Brazil and Argentina, in the case of the workers' recuperated factories, over the past 40 years.

This book provides an overview of the evolution and theories of the Austrian School of Economics and develops answers to current economic questions and the pressing problems of the 21st century from the Austrian perspective.

The financial crisis of 2008 has revived interest in economic scholarship from a historical perspective.

Macroeconomic Principles and Problems: A Pluralist Introduction offers a comprehensive overview of the major topics in modern macroeconomics, from mainstream and heterodox perspectives.

The spillover effect of multinational companies has, historically, been subject to much debate.

In order to fully understand the evolution and future growth of economic systems, we must draw on the lessons of economic history.

Lichtenberg argues for a practical and moral approach to reducing poverty, exploring concepts such as altruism and aid.

This book, the second of two volumes, explores the impact of Jesus Huerta de Soto and his role in the modern revival of the Austrian School of Economics.

The 1930s, characterised by repercussions from World War I and the Great Depression, was an era of populism, nationalism, protectionism, government intervention and attempts to create planned economies.

This book offers a sociological analysis of globalised capitalist markets, advancing the notion of 'disembedded markets' to challenge the idea of 'social embeddedness' common in economic sociology.

This three volume series of intellectual biography considers the life, work and impact on economic, social and political theory of the Italian economist, sociologist and political scientist Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923).

This book, set out over three-volumes, provides a comprehensive history of economic thought in the 20th century with special attention to the cultural and historical background in the development of theories, to the leading or the peripheral research communities and their interactions, and finally to an assessment and critical appreciation of economic theories.

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This book presents the results of a collective and original empirical investigation of the institutional systems underlying the capitalisms that are coming to the fore in developing nations.

The book introduces the New Keynesian framework, historically through a literature overview and through a step-by-step derivation of a New Keynesian Phillips curve, an intertemporal IS curve, and a targeting rule for the central bank.

If the global economy seems unfair, how should we understand what a fair global economy would be?

This book provides an elaboration upon the concept of knowledge from an economic viewpoint.

What is the role of human agency in Friedrich Hayek's thought?

The Foundations of Positive and Normative Economics: A Handbook is the first book in a new series by Andrew Caplin and Andrew Schotter.

This book, originally published in 1975, deals with the sources of economic growth, inflation and the prospects of bringing it under control, floating exchange rates and restrictions on international capital movements.

Dieses verständliche Einsteigerbuch stellt grundlegend die Theorie der stochastischen Prozesse vor.

In this 37th issue of the Research in Political Economy series, Jan Toporowski and leading experts offer a unique and insightful overview of Polish Marxism after Luxemburg, serving as an introduction to some key themes and the ideas of several Polish political economists.

This book is the result of my doctoral dissertation research at the Department of Econometrics of the University of Geneva, Switzerland.

Institutional economics has been a major part of economic thought for the whole of the twentieth century, and today remains crucial to an understanding of the development of heterodox economics.

From humans to hermit crabs to deep water plankton, all living things compete for locally limiting resources.

This book aims to make the nature of input-output analysis in economics clearly accessible and, contrary to the opinion of many commentators, shows that this type of analysis can be compatible with the doctrines of neoclassical economics.