This study examines five decades of Italian economists who studied or researched at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge between the years 1950 and 2000.
This is an original and controversial reflection on the course of human history and a remarkable attempt to develop a scientific model of laws for the social sciences.
This book provides an analysis of the two concepts of power and crime and posits that criminologists can learn more about these concepts by incorporating ideas from disciplines outside of criminology.
Several contemporary economic theories revolve around different concepts: market failures, institutions, transaction costs, information asymmetries, motivational diversity, cognitive limitations, strategic behaviors and evolutionary stability.
While there had been much radical thought before John Stuart Mill, Joseph Persky argues it was Mill, as he moved to the left, who provided the radical wing of liberalism with its first serious analytical foundation, a political economy of progress that still echoes today.
This study, first published in 1997, examines the relationship between the style of management used and the level of productivity, measured in terms of the organization's financial stability.
This book assembles main contributions to an alternative explanation of globalisation and the political economic structures of the international system.
These proceedings gather the best papers presented at the "e;10th International Scientific and Practical Conference - the 21st Century from the Positions of Modern Science: Intellectual, Digital and Innovative Aspects,"e; which was organized by the non-profit organization "e;Institute of Scientific Communications.
As the current capitalist system has been increasingly struggling to respond to the problems and uncertainties in the global economy, this book aims to identify the main economic, social, and ecological problems and discusses solutions for a more inclusive and sustainable economic system.
Jeff Diamanti describes the destructive relationship between climate and capital through the exponential growth of the petroleum industry over the last 40 years.
Volume 40C of Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology features a symposium on the work of the controversial French economist Francois Perroux, edited by Katia Caldari and Alexandre Mendes Cunha, and a collection of book reviews of David M.
Western society moved from a period in which Christianity was the dominant spiritual force to one of nationalism and then to making the economy the object of public devotion.
First published in 1976, this book traces the development of the Yugoslav economy from the end of the Second World War to the beginning of 1975, which the author argues was a highly productive era of social innovation.
Neben umfangreichen Studien, die ihn als Theoretiker ausweisen, publizierte Nikolaj Bucharin, seit der Gründung der Kommunistischen Internationale Mitglied des Exekutivkomitees, Chefredakteur der "Prawda", der Regierungszeitung "Iswestija" und Mitglied der Kommunistischen Akademie und der Akademie der Wissenschaften der UdSSR, regelmäßig in der Tagespresse.
First published in 1986, this title argues that the successful development of a new microeconomics requires a deeper understanding of methodological individualism and its role in stability analysis.
This textbook offers a comprehensive guide to the systematic structure of capitalism, while at the same time introducing readers to all three volumes of Marx's Capital.
The purpose of this study is to better understand the essential interdependencies between the world economy and the global ecosystem, including human populations.
The Cambridge philosopher Frank Ramsey (1903-1930) died tragically young, but had already established himself as one of the most brilliant minds of the twentieth century.
This book explores the early work and activities of Joan Robinson that focused on economic development within underdeveloped countries, in particular India before independence.