Economic theory and philosophy

A clear and concise history of economic thought, developed from the author''s award-winning book, The Wealth of Ideas.

Applying the principles of Optimal Control Theory to the problem of regional allocation of investment can be a useful tool for demonstrating how the trade-off between regional equity and overall efficiency can be overcome.

This original book develops a systematic zero-net-profit comparative statics theory to shed new light on the microeconomics of industry equilibrium.

Statistical physics addresses the study and understanding of systems with many degrees of freedom.

First Published in 1990.

Infinite programming may be defined as the study of mathematical programming problems in which the number of variables and the number of constraints are both possibly infinite.

A central problem of prescriptive decision making is the mismatch between the elegant formal models of decision theory and the less elegant, informal thinking of decision makers, especially when dealing with ill-structured situations.

The neo-Weberian state constitutes an attempt to combine the Weberian model of administration with the principles laid down during the retreat from the bureaucratic management paradigm (new public management and public governance).

Sir John Redwood has been at the centre of the movement to speed up the growth in wealth and income around the world through the rediscovery of private enterprise.

This volume brings together eminent international scholars to discuss and analyze regional and national technology and innovation policies from an economic assessment or economic impacts perspective.

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Ian Steedman is recognised internationally as one of the leading economic theorists of his time and has made major contributions to the development of economic theory and economic thought, as substantiated by his work on Marx, Sraffa, Marshall, Jevons and Wicksteed.

In this book, Binder shows that at the heart of the most prominent arguments in favour of value-neutral approaches to overall freedom lies the value freedom has for human agency and development.

The 2007-2008 financial crisis exposed the shortcomings of mainstream economic theory with economists unprepared to deal with it.

This timely book debates the economic and political logic of the austerity policies that have been implemented in the UK and in the Eurozone since 2010 and asks whether there is any alternative for these countries in the years ahead.

The author assesses the place in world affairs of economic co-operation and integration among Atlantic countries, and the prospects for Atlantic relationships in the near future.

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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.

Adam Smith's An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations was the product of the rich tradition of the Scottish Enlightenment but the book's fame immediately spread across the whole of Europe.

This volume takes a unique and challenging look at how money has operated in Islamic society and at how Islamic theoretical frameworks have influenced perceptions of money.

This book sheds light on some of the most recent developments in monetary analysis which offer a theoretical framework for a renewed monetary approach and related policy extensions.

This is the first book that systematically considers the academic achievements of Japanese institutionalist post-Keynesian economists in the postwar period and argues that we can learn much from their intellectual heritage.

How modern economics abandoned classical liberalism and lost its wayMilton Friedman once predicted that advances in scientific economics would resolve debates about whether raising the minimum wage is good policy.

Zipf's law is one of the few quantitative reproducible regularities found in e- nomics.

Volume 16 of "e;Research on Economic"e; contains a selection of thirteen papers from the Second Biannual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, Berlin, July, 2007.

The economics of sustainability is much more complex than the neoclassical (Newtonian) economic approach to economic efficiency.

Previously published as special issues of The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought and The Review of Political Economy, this volume contains the papers devoted to the life and work of Piero Sraffa.

This book focuses on the interaction between practising economists and previous generations of economists.

Industrial Action (1976), written by an experienced active trade unionist, brings valuable real-world examples to an examination of the many facets of trade union organising.

This Edited Collection provides a rigorous and rich overview of current bargaining research in economics and related disciplines, as well as a discussion of future directions.

Joseph Alois Schumpeter is arguably the most important economist of the 20th century.

This book presents the capitalist system as a function of the interaction of the three basic classes in the capitalist social formation.

This is the first book to provide a systematic description of statistical properties of large-scale financial data.

This book articulates a unified theory of capitalism as an attempt to provide a comprehensive scientific theory of this social system.

Economics is widely regarded as a social science.

Bei der Behandlung dynamischer Systeme stellt sich dem Modellbilder immer das Problem einer adäquaten Modellformulierung.

This book contains a selection of chapters coming from For a Better World (First Conference on Hirschman Legacy - Boston 2017), A Bias for Hope (Second Conference on Hirschman Legacy- Washington-WB 2018), and A Passion for the Possible (Third Conference on Hirschman Legacy - Berlin 2019).

A wide-ranging historical account and critical analysis of the global development of economics from 1940 to the present day.