Economic theory and philosophy

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

The so-called energy crisis that burst upon the world in 1973 was not easily understood by many people.

This study, first published in 1983, is primarily concerned with what the British economists over the period 1860 to 1914 wrote on a range of economic and non-economic aspects of the British Empire, and the reasons for their conclusions.

Rosa Luxemburg was a revolutionary socialist who fought and died for her beliefs.

Publication of the Handbook of Group Decision and Negotiation marks a milestone in the evolution of the group decision and negotiation (GDN) eld.

This book reassesses central topics in cultural economics: Public finance and public choice theory as the basis for decision-making in cultural and media policy, the role of welfare economics in cultural policy, the economics of creative industries, the application of empirical testing to the performing arts and the economics of cultural heritage.

This book is an authoritative and accessible guide to the pluralist movement threatening to revolutionise mainstream economics.

Originally published in 1991 this book brings together 9 essays which address a number of central issues relating to the nature of German industrialisation, including the role of foreign competition in fostering technological change, the importance of market integration for economic development and the response of German banks to industrialisation.

Significant, and usually unwelcome, surprises, such as floods, financial crisis, epileptic seizures, or material rupture, are the topics of Extreme Events in Nature and Society.

Approximately one in six top economic research papers draws an explicitly causal conclusion.

This book, first published in 1987, is a study of the political processes that underlie the determination of taxation - and much else - in the centuries-old government of Britain.

This book presents techniques for determining uncertainties in numerical solutions with applications in the fields of business administration, civil engineering, and economics, using Excel as a computational tool.

Begleitend zum Buch Aktien-, Zins- und Währungsderivate soll mit dieser Formelsammlung den Lesern, darunter insbesondere Studierende und Praktiker in den Bereichen Treasury, Risikocontrolling und Innenrevision von Banken und Industrieunternehmen, ein übersichtliches Nachschlagewerk der im Buch dargestellten Formeln zur Bewertung und Risikoanalyse von Derivaten in die Hand gegeben werden.

This reader is designed for use as a primary or supplementary text for courses on women's role in the economy.

Das Buch ist eine Einführung in die nicht-kooperative Spieltheorie.

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

Our elaborate market exchange system owes its existence not to our calculating brain or insatiable self-centeredness, but rather to our sophisticated and nuanced human sociality and to the inherent rationality built into our emotions.

Das Freiburger Modell ist ein makroökonometrisches Simulations- und Prognosemodell für die Wirtschaft der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.

In urban analytics, 'crowding' implies the spatiotemporal distributional unevenness of people's stays and flows in middle-scale urban spaces, and has since become an emerging keyword, attracting not only practical interests but  also research interests, especially in the current IoT devised downtown.

Summarizes the main contributions of the Austrian School of Economics and applies them to entrepreneurship, strategy, and organization.

This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of noncooperative and cooperative dynamic games involving uncertain parameter values, with the stochastic process being described by an event tree.

Entrepreneurship does not occur in a vacuum.

This book provides an authoritative resource on the topic of intelligent robots, artificial intelligence and the ethical implications of these revolutionary innovations.

An essential origin story of modern society's most influential economic doctrine.

This book explores the ideas of nine renowned economists to present the evolution of economic thought on the development and trajectory of capitalism as a system.

Economical questions indisputably occupy a central place in everyday life.

This is Volume II in a series on Studies in Applied Economics and looks at the theory of the production of social wealth in the areas of agriculture, industry, commerce banking and stock markets.

The growth of information economics has lead to a substantial re-consideration of the role of prices.

This book explains and justifies efficient general methods of making decisions and will guide practical efforts to streamline rational choice.

Social forces are important determinants of how people behave, how economies work at the macroeconomic level, and the effectiveness of economic policies.

This book provides an essential introduction to Stochastic Programming, especially intended for graduate students.

The special session on Decision Economics (DECON) is a scientific forum held annually and intended to share ideas, projects, research results, models and experiences associated with the complexity of behavioural decision processes and socio-economic phenomena.

Drawing in particular on the work of Sraffa, Smith, Ricardo and Marx, the essays in this volume explore the characteristic features of the Classical economists' approach to economic problems, and the renewal of interest in that approach in modern times.

This Fourth Edition updates the "e;Solutions Manual for Econometrics"e; to match the Sixth Edition of the Econometrics textbook.

This book contains commentaries from the series "e;Klassiker der Nationalokonomie"e; (classics of economics), which have been translated into English for the first time.

First published in 1978.

In this volume are papers written by students and co-authors of Stanley Reiter.