Economic theory and philosophy

The Inland Revenue (1965) examines the organization and functions of the UK's Inland Revenue Department as they stood at the beginning of 1965.

Why are some countries rich and others poor?

Handbook of the Economics of Marketing, Volume One: Marketing and Economics mixes empirical work in industrial organization with quantitative marketing tools, presenting tactics that help researchers tackle problems with a balance of intuition and skepticism.

First published in 1930, this book endeavours to trace and express the relations between economic and human values, between wealth and life.

With clarity and verve, Mark Allen Powell introduces the beginning student to the contents and structure of the Gospels, their distinctive characteristics, and their major themes.

A conceptual and historical inquiry into the concept of self-interest before Adam Smith.

Econophysics and Financial Economics provides the first extensive analytic comparison between models and results from econophysics and financial economics in an accessible and common vocabulary.

Commentaries on Early Jewish Literature is a new series in English dealing with early Jewish literature between the third century BC and the middle of the second century AD; it is scheduled to encompass a total of 58 volumes.

The oft-used phrase ‘Money makes the world go round’ not only highlights the purely economic nature of money but also underscores its significant implications for politics, society, and humanity.

Traditional economics treats the defining subjective properties of economic agents (tastes, preferences, demands, goals and perceptions) as if they are determined independently of individual and collective relations with other agents.

From acclaimed economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller, the case for why government is needed to restore confidence in the economyThe global financial crisis has made it painfully clear that powerful psychological forces are imperiling the wealth of nations today.

The intellectual trajectory of Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish Nobel Laureate economist, sociologist, and politician, brings us through many of the major issues in the world economy and politics of the 20th century.

The contemporary orthodox view of world trade has centred, generally unchallenged, on the ideas of free trade, based on the theoretical construct of comparative advantage.

This book explores how Islam can impact the structures and performance of firms, financial institutions and capital markets across a range of countries and industries.

Economists increasingly recognise that engagement with social ontology - the study of the basic subject matter and constitution of social reality - can facilitate more relevant analysis.

This book reflects the state of the art on nonlinear economic dynamics, financial market modelling and quantitative finance.

A wide range of contributors explain the links between Keynes''s philosophy and his economics.

This book provides deep insight into the emergent Chinese innovation economy, as we head towards the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Economic Biology and Behavioral Economics: The Prophesy of Alfred Marshall explores the prophesy of Alfred Marshall, the grand synthesizer of neoclassical economics, that the "e;Mecca of the economist lies in economic biology"e;.

As a book on public policy, this book is unique in addressing explicitly the role of human nature.

This is the first book to comprehensively examine the asymptotic behavior of dynamic monopolies, duopolies, and oligopolies where firms face information and implementation delays.

This book collects all the papers that appeared in 2005 in Kno- edge, Rationality and Action (KRA), a journal published as a s- cial section of Synthese, which addresses contemporary issues in epistemic logic, belief revision, game and decision theory, rational agency, planning and theories of action.

This book provides readers with a snapshot of the state-of-the art in fuzzy logic.

Independently commissioned by IAI, the three studies comprising this book examine inter-Arab industrial and economic cooperation.

In this book the author reflects on the philosophical and ethical bases of the financial crisis 2007-08 and the subsequent recession.

A comprehensive overview of theoretical economics, its distinctive modeling strategy, applicability, and empirical support.

In Soviet Economy and the War the author presents a concise factual record of Soviet economic developments during a short period.

For nearly ten years, readers of the Sunday Boston Globe and newspapers around America have delighted in David Warsh's column, "e;Economic Principals.

Distinctively tying history with theory, political economist Joseph A.

Bitcoin isn't just for criminals, speculators, or wealthy Silicon Valley entrepreneurs - despite what the headlines say.

First published in 1940, this book suggested the basic principles upon which a new international economic order should be built at the end of the Second World War.

My interest in microsimulation started to develop when I was exposed to the works of Guy Orcutt and his associates on microsimulation of households in the USA, and those of Gunnar Eliasson and his associates on simulatio~ of Swedish firms.

Der Arbeitsbegriff Hegels ist mehrdeutig: Er umfasst den Bereich der ökonomischen Arbeit ebenso wie die Arbeit, die den Geist der Menschheit in der Geschichte, der Kunst und der Gesellschaft hervorbringt und entwickelt.

IS-LM is perhaps the prime example of `cognitive dissonance' in economics, and is problematic to many economists.

This book investigates the relationship between our present and future selves.

Although the Arab states of the Persian Gulf are leaders in many of the measures of absolute wealth that have traditionally defined success in the global economy, they have had a much harder time becoming accepted in the equally fractured and hierarchal realm of the cultural economy, where practices, signs, and perceptions of propriety matter.

Computational and numerical methods are used in a number of ways across the field of finance.