Economic theory and philosophy

Providing a valuable resource for government economists, academics, and research libraries, this volume contains twelve papers by Robert Pollak--four previously unpublished--that explore the theory of the cost of living index.

Modern institutional economics was created to study the institutions of pre-digital economies and is based on reductionist approaches.

For the past two centuries, the great power sitting atop the international global financial system has enjoyed outsized rewards.

Once treated as the absence of knowledge, ignorance has now become a highly influential and rapidly growing topic in its own right.

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This volume presents techniques and theories drawn from mathematics, statistics, computer science, and information science to analyze problems in business, economics, finance, insurance, and related fields.

A review of the existing literature on the China-India comparative theme conveys the distinct impression that the literature largely projects China and India as intrinsically competitive entities.

This volume, explores the nature of economics as a science, including classic texts and newer essays.

The Gospels And Christian Life reads the four canonical Gospels as handbooks for religious formation through communal practices.

The Austrian School of Economics is an intellectual tradition in economics and political economy dating back to Carl Menger in the late-19th century.

This book depicts the role of both formal and informal institutions in achieving long-term economic efficiency and development.

Since the days of Lev Pontryagin and his associates, the discipline of Optimal Control has enjoyed a tremendous upswing - not only in terms of its mathematical foundations, but also with regard to numerous fields of application, which have given rise to highly active research areas.

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Besides two hitherto unpublished papers, this collection contains 15 of Rainer Albertz' papers from the period 1978 - 2000.

Financialization is one of the most innovative concepts to emerge in the field of political economy in the last three decades, although there is no agreement on what exactly it is.

Economic Systems exhibit complex dynamics evidenced by large-amplitude and aperiodic fluctuations in economic variables, such as foreign exchange rates and stock market prices, indicating that these systems are driven far from the equilibrium.

This book gives an introduction to the mathematical theory of cooperative behavior in active systems of various origins, both natural and artificial.

This book explores the relationship between economic thought, proposals for reform of political institutions, and civil society in the period between the rise to power of Napoleon and the eve of the First World War in Italy and France - two countries with a similar cultural and political tradition and with personal mobility of the intellectual class.

The papers in this volume explore various issues relating to theories of individual and collective choice, and theories of social welfare.

With increased resilience in the financial systems, emerging Asian economies were less affected by the recent global financial crisis, recovering more quickly from the crisis than major advanced economies.

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The question of how to allocate scarce medical resources has become an important public policy issue in recent decades.

Game theory, the formalized study of strategy, began in the 1940s by asking how emotionless geniuses should play games, but ignored until recently how average people with emotions and limited foresight actually play games.

This book examines entrenched gender bias and the economic, political, and social systems that sustain patriarchy.

Why has capitalism produced economic growth that so vastly dwarfs the growth record of other economic systems, past and present?

The frontiers of physical science and technology commanded attention dur- ing the last two centuries.

Both the exponents and critics of neoliberalism assert the dominance of market forces in western nations.

This book focuses on the concepts of social capital, corporate social responsibility, and economic development in relation to economic theory of institutions and behavioural economics.

Ausgehend von der philosophischen Hermeneutik Gadamers und dessen Kerngedanken einer universalen natürlichen Verstehensfähigkeit des Menschen erörtert Jochen J.

Innovatively combining existentialist philosophy with cutting edge post-structuralist and psychoanalytic perspectives, this book boldly reconsiders market freedom.

Research in macroeconomics in the last thirty years has featured, almost exclusively on two characteristics: an emphasis on the microfoundations of macroeconomics and secondly, intertemporal economics, that is, the behavior of economic actors over time.

The Circular Economy: Case Studies about the Transition from the Linear Economy explores examples of the circular economy in action.

Climate scientists have determined that we must act now to prevent an irreversible and catastrophic climatic tipping point, beyond which neither our own nor many other species can be assumed likely to survive.

First published in 1968, this is the second part of Professor Meade's Principles of Political Economy, which presents a systematic treatment of the whole field of economic analysis in the form of a series of simplified models which are specifically designed to show the interconnections between the various specialist fields of economic theory.

This book offers a definitive and wide-ranging overview of developments in behavioral finance over the past ten years.

This book explores institutional change and economic behaviour by examining the transition process in the former socialist countries that joined the EU in 2004, looking at the growth occurring in China, offering a historical perspective on economic underdevelopment in the Middle East, and discussing the neo-classical paradigm.

The Mexico-Guatemala border has emerged as a geopolitical hotspot of illicit flows of both goods and people.