Economic theory and philosophy

The key to achieving mass flourishing is culture - not genes, geography, institutions, or policies.

The most fundamental questions of economics are often philosophical in nature, and philosophers have, since the very beginning of Western philosophy, asked many questions that current observers would identify as economic.

This timely book argues that no major movement has ever been successful without counterpower, or the power that the "e;have-nots"e; can use to remove the power of the "e;haves.

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Solving nonsmooth optimization (NSO) problems is critical in many practical applications and real-world modeling systems.

This book focuses on economic inequality, its measurement, and its relationship with economic growth and development.

No region in the world has seen so much development activity in the last ten years as the Gulf area.

John Rawls (1921-2002) was one of the 20th century's most important philosophers and continues to be among the most widely discussed of contemporary thinkers.

This book covers the proceedings from the 2016 International Symposium on Chaos, Complexity and Leadership, and reflects current research results of chaos and complexity studies and their applications in various fields.

Paul the apostle is usually imagined as a man of prestige and power - comfortably conversing with philosophers, seeking an audience with the emperor, and composing compelling letters for Christians throughout the Mediterranean.

This book was written mainly during the Spring periods of 2008 and 2009, when the ?

Drawing on years of research, Gerald Steele delves into the diverse ideas of Henry Simons, a neglected economist whose work in the 1930s on monetary and financial instability is extremely relevant to today's debates about commercial bank credit, the interdependence of fiscal and monetary policy, and financial regulation.

In this book, the author argues that a new form of capitalism is emerging at the threshold of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Terence Hutchison has made a unique contribution to debates in the history of economic thought and in economic methodology.

Wariboko offers a critical-philosophical perspective on the logics and dynamics of finance capital in the twenty-first century in order to craft a model of the care of the soul that will enable citizens to not only better negotiate their economic existences and moral evaluations within it, but also resist its negative impact on social life.

A masterful introduction to the key ideas behind the successes-and failures-of free-market economicsSince 1946, Henry Hazlitt's bestselling Economics in One Lesson has popularized the belief that economics can be boiled down to one simple lesson: market prices represent the true cost of everything.

What does it mean to do public policy ethics today?

This textbook offers a unique approach to macroeconomic theory built on microeconomic foundations of monetary macroeconomics within a unified framework of an intertemporal general equilibrium model extended to a sequential and dynamic analysis.

This second volume contains essays which relate to developments in Keynes' scholarship and theorizing in the years since his death and demonstrates the ongoing validity of the Keynesian tradition.

US President Barack Obama has called economic inequality the “defining issue of our time.

Raised and educated in Rome, Juba II (48 BC- AD 23) was sent to uphold Roman interests in northwest Africa as ruler of the cliet kingdom of Mauretania.

The present 'Introductory Lectures on Arbitrage-based Financial Asset Pricing' are a first attempt to give a comprehensive presentation of Arbitrage Theory in a discrete time framework (by the way: all the re- sults given in these lectures apply to a continuous time framework but, probably, in continuous time we could achieve stronger results - of course at the price of stronger assumptions).

It is widely held that Bayesian decision theory is the final word on how a rational person should make decisions.

This book, the second of two volumes, provides a comprehensive overview of the core topics within Austrian economics.

Economics is too important to be left to the economists.

Drawing on the middle chapters from the first edition of J.

Originally published in 1981, this book considers one particular area of econometrics- the linear model- where significant recent advances have been made.

Optimality and stability are two important notions in applied mathematics.

This interdisciplinary volume points the way toward the modernization of regulatory theory.

Over eleven years have passed since the last NATO sponsored meeting on Fishing which took the form of a Conference held in Trondheim in 1979.

With the expansion of globalization, international trade has played an increasingly significant role, especially for developing countries.

This book provides an impressive account of the pioneering technical achievements of the German economic theorist Friedrich List (1789-1846) during his exile in the USA.

The Routledge Handbook of Heterodox Economics presents a comprehensive overview of the latest work on economic theory and policy from a 'pluralistic' heterodox perspective.

Takahashi reconstructs the key blocks of one of the founders of the institutional school, John R.

This collection of formulas constitutes a compendium of mathematics for eco- nomics and business.

This volume is a general survey of pure value and distribution theory written for students who have completed a more discursive elementary course, or, perhaps, for a select group of students entering on a series of courses in economics.

All human beings develop a certain view on the world.

The common understanding of physiocracy - the school of eighteenth-century political economy associated with thinkers such as Boisguillebert and Quesnay - is often confined to the view that it considered agriculture the only source of wealth, and manufacture, trade and export as unproductive.

While standard accounts of the 1930s debates surrounding economic thought pit John Maynard Keynes against Friedrich von Hayek in a clash of ideology, this reflexive dichotomy is in many respects superficial.

This book contains some of the results from the research project "e;Demand for Food in the Nordic Countries"e;, which was initiated in 1988 by Professor Olof Bolin of the Agricultural University in Ultuna, Sweden and by Professor Karl Iohan Weckman, of the University of Helsinki, Finland.

This book covers the main topics of welfare economics - general equilibrium models of exchange and production, Pareto optimality, un- certainty, externalities and public goods - and some of the major topics of social choice theory - compensation criteria, fairness, voting.

Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century reached the top of most best-seller lists last year shortly after it was released.

Crawford Brough Macpherson has been teaching at the University of Toronto for some forty years, building an international reputation through his identification and critique of possessive individualism as a core concept in Western liberal democratic theory.

This collection brings together leading economists from around the world to explore key issues in economic analysis and the history of economic thought.