Economic theory and philosophy

This book presents the mathematical economic theory of price determination and resource allocation from elementary to advanced levels.

International Federation of Classification Societies The International Federation of Classification Societies (lFCS) is an agency for the dissemination of technical and scientific information concerning classification and multivariate data analysis in the broad sense and in as wide a range of applications as possible; founded in 1985 in Cambridge (UK) by the following Scientific Societies and Groups: - British Classification Society - BCS - Classification Society of North America - CSNA - Gesellschaft fUr Klassification - GfKI - Japanese Classification Society - JCS - Classification Group ofItalian Statistical Society - CGSIS - Societe Francophone de Classification - SFC Now the IFCS includes also the following Societies: - Dutch-Belgian Classification Society - VOC - Polish Classification Section - SKAD - Portuguese Classification Association - CLAD - Group at Large - Korean Classification Society - KCS IFCS-98, the Sixth Conference of the International Federation of Classification Societies, was held in Rome, from July 21 to 24, 1998.

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Adam Smith and the Classics analyses the influence of classical culture---the work of Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, and the Stoics---on Adam Smith's thought.

This volume, along with its companion volume, Methodology, Microeconomics and Keynes is published in honour of Victoria Chick, inspired by her own contributions to knowledge in all of these areas and their interconnections.

A book which covers the key period in the history of actuarial science from the mid-17th century to the early 19th century.

First published in 1904, this important economic work explores some of the leading principles underlining the development of international trade.

Liquidate: How Money is Dissolving the World examines the emergence of money and its social and ecological repercussions.

Mapping Mainstream Economics: Genealogical Foundations of Alternativity seeks to establish a definition of the mainstream economics, and by extension the alternatives to it, by adopting a genealogical approach: tracing the methodological development of the economic mainstream through its ancestry, which allows for a definition of the mainstream that is separate from politically charged categories or gridlocked academic arguments between received schools of thought.

This book, originally published in 1951, is a theoretical study inspired by some central economic problems which have appeared during and after the Second World War in many countries, including Scandinavia.

Provides a view of the different types of capitalist economic systems based on an empirical analysis of twenty-one OECD nations.

This book provides an evaluation of 18 voting procedures in terms of the most important monotonicity-related criteria in fixed and variable electorates.

In line with the development of political theology and economic theology in contemporary European thought, Credit and Faith offers a critical account of the faith structures within economic life and institutions.

Economics and moral philosophy have in recent years been considered to be distinct and separate fields.

Wendy Motooka contends that 'the Age of Reason' was actually an Age of Reasons.

The primary purpose of this handbook is to clearly describe the current state of theories of systems sciences and to support their use and practice.

Explores the failure of Romantic critiques of political economy, and the diminishing importance of aesthetic consciousness across the nineteenth century.

The Marginal Productivity Theory of Distribution (MPTD) claims that in a free-market economy the demand for a factor of production will depend upon its marginal product - where "e;marginal product"e; is defined as the change in total product that is caused by, or that follows, the addition or subtraction of the marginal unit of the factor used in the production process, with all other inputs held constant.

This is the first outcome of our effort in ASIAN LINK PROJECT to construct the econometric models of Asian developing countries and analyze their inter-dependence with major trading partners, the United States and Japan.

This book, originally published in 1981, is a major reassessment of the strengths and weaknesses of incomes policies.

Basierend auf einem kompetenztheoretischen Ansatz und qualitativer Empirie untersucht Matthis Schneegaß grundlegende Ursache-Wirkungs-Zusammenhänge der De-Internationalisierung in mittelständischen deutschen Familienunternehmen.

The authors of this book argue that post-war fiscal and monetary policies in the U.

This major study brings to light Thoreau's relation to the complex economic discourse of his time and place.

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries own 30 percent of the world's proven oil reserves and largely depend on oil for their income.

Crises have been studied in many disciplines and from diverse perspectives for at least 150 years.

In this volume fourteen senior economists describe their early introduction to the study of economics and their contribution to the development of academic economics in Britain.

Some goods are freely traded as commodities without question or controversy.

When John Kenneth Galbraith passed away on April 29, 2006, the economics profession lost one of its true giants.

Exploring Polanyi's lesser-known works as well as The Great Transformation, Baum provides a more complete and nuanced understanding of Polanyi's thought.

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

Agent-based Computational Economics (ACE) is a new discipline of economics, largely grounded on concepts like evolution, auto-organisation and emergence: it intensively uses computer simulations as well as artificial intelligence, mostly based on multi-agents systems.

Mathematische Modelle und Methoden sind in weiten Teilen der Wirtschaftswissenschaften unverzichtbar; dabei dient die Mathematik einerseits als Sprache zur Modellierung komplexer wirtschaftlicher Zusammenhänge, andererseits als Werkzeug zur Analyse wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Modelle.

Lacan and Marx: The Invention of the Symptom provides an incisive commentary on Lacan's reading of Marx, mapping the relations between these two vastly influential thinkers.

The book responds to the need for greater clarity regarding the relationship between descriptive, evaluative and prescriptive approaches within positive and normative economics.

Der Klimawandel gefährdet die Existenzgrundlage zukünftiger Generationen.

Until the end of the early 1970s, from a history of economic thought perspective, the mainstream in economics was pluralist, but once neoclassical economics became totally dominant it claimed the mainstream as its own.

The fertility of Adam Smith's work stems from a paradoxical structure where the pursuit of economic self-interest and wealth accumulation serve wider social objectives.

This volume uses historical epistemology in order to address several topics in the history of economic thought, with special emphasis on ecological economics, environmental metaphors of scarcity, and mathematical ecology.

Traditionally, Sociology has identified its subject matter as a distinct set - social phenomena - that can be taken as quite different and largely disconnected from potentially relevant disciplines such as Psychology, Economics or Planetary Ecology.

When we first invited the group of distinguished scholars represented here to contribute to a new volume on Austrian economics, four themes were stressed: tensions, new directions, selectivity, and criticism.

Handbook of Economic Expectations discusses the state-of-the-art in the collection, study and use of expectations data in economics, including the modelling of expectations formation and updating, as well as open questions and directions for future research.

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

Nonviolent Political Economy offers a set of theoretical solutions and practical guidelines to build an economy of nonviolence which implies a social state of peacefulness, involving minimal violence and minimal destruction of nature.

This edited collection uses a history of economic thought perspective to explore the evolving role of Latin America within the context of globalization.

This textbook looks at decisions how we make them, and what makes them good or bad.