Economic theory and philosophy

What is the exact nature of the consumption function?

This unique study into the roots of Max Weber's Political Economy, is an intriguing read and a valuable contribution to the Weberian literature.

This book studies the economic history of India and traces the Indian path of development from a Latin American framework and perspective.

This book discusses the philosophy and educational reforms initiated by Wilhelm von Humboldt as well as their legacy in the modern university system.

This edited collection seeks to advance thinking on money and the monetary nature of the economy, macroeconomic analysis and economic policy, setting it within the context of current scholarship and global socioeconomic concerns, and the crisis in the economics discipline.

This book presents an integrated jurisprudential critique of neoclassical microeconomic theory.

In the mid-1960's I had the pleasure of attending a talk by Lotfi Zadeh at which he presented some of his basic (and at the time, recent) work on fuzzy sets.

This book presents recent research on probabilistic methods in economics, from machine learning to statistical analysis.

A comprehensive introduction to the statistical and econometric methods for analyzing high-frequency financial dataHigh-frequency trading is an algorithm-based computerized trading practice that allows firms to trade stocks in milliseconds.

This is part of a two-volume work intended to map the theoretical heartland of the institutionalist perspective on political economy.

First published in 1981, this book concerns itself with the different ways in which money is used, the relationships which then arise, and the institutions concerned in maintaining its various functions.

This volume comprises twelve papers written by Chinese scholars on various aspects of the history of ancient Chinese economic thought.

This book examines the role of experts and expertise in the dynamics of globalisation since the mid-nineteenth century.

Michael Oakeshott on Authority, Governance, and the State presents contributions on one of the most important British philosophers of the 20th century.

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 defends and articulates an "e;Engaged Buddhist"e; approach to economics as a response to the destructive effects of global capitalism.

Portfolio theory and much of asset pricing, as well as many empirical applications, depend on the use of multivariate probability distributions to describe asset returns.

Entrepreneurship is the engine of economic progress, but mainstream economic models of economic growth tend to leave out the entrepreneurial elements of the economy.

In his latest book, scholar-historian Murray G.

This interdisciplinary collection examines the significance of constitutions in setting the terms and conditions upon which market economies operate.

In the post-war period, spending on social security, health and education has grown continuously in the leading industrialized countries.

This book describes and refutes thirteen ideas involving free market principles and the US economic system, arguing that these (mostly familiar) ideas are myths.

Why are house prices in many advanced economies rising faster than incomes?

Comparative Economic Theory: Occidental and Islamic Perspectives seeks first to elucidate the nature and methodology of Islamic political economy as a process-oriented social economy guided by its cardinal epistemology of Oneness of God (Divine Unity).

As everyone knows, intuition is warm and fuzzy, qualitative, not measurable.

General Equilibrium Analysis is a systematic exposition of the Walrasian model of economic equilibrium with a finite number of agents, as formalized by Arrow, Debreu and McKenzie at the beginning of the fifties and since then extensively used, worked and studied.

This book addresses the functioning of financial markets, in particular the financial market model, and modelling.

Sir Austin Robinson had a career unique among economists.

While not evident immediately, social norms and values play a crucial role in the theory of social choice.

First Published in 1998.

Covers the key issues required for students wishing to understand and analyse the core empirical issues in economics.

From Nobel Prize-winning economist Michael Kremer and fellow leading development economist Rachel Glennerster, an innovative solution for providing vaccines in poor countriesMillions of people in the third world die from diseases that are rare in the first world-diseases like malaria, tuberculosis, and schistosomiasis.

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

The first volume to integrate life''s biological, cognitive, social, and ecological dimensions into a single, coherent framework.

Have you ever wondered what Adam Smith would have to say about you playing the lottery?

Volume 40C of Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology features a symposium on the work of the controversial French economist Francois Perroux, edited by Katia Caldari and Alexandre Mendes Cunha, and a collection of book reviews of David M.

Thomas Hodgskin (1787-1869) is today a largely unknown figure, sometimes considered to be a forerunner of Karl Marx.

This important new book charts the economic and social rise and fall of a small, but intriguing part of the American South: Charleston and the surrounding South Carolina low country.

Demonstrates the importance of social norms to firms and markets through historical context and theoretical and empirical evidence.

This report is a partial result of the China's Quarterly Macroeconometric Model (CQMM), a project developed and maintained by the Center for Macroeconomic Research (CMR) at Xiamen University.

Economics has paid little attention to the psychology of economic behaviour, leading to somewhat simplistic assumptions about human nature.

This report provides a detailed overview of the market position and outlook in these two closely related metals, looking at supply and demand trends in each individually and addressing key issues for the future, including the impact of developments in the environmental arena and the recycling marketplace.

In this new volume it is argued that network effects are much more common than usually assumed, and that they have a profound impact on many aspects of economic systems, especially technological change and economic growth.