The US twin deficit, Western European economic integration, Eastern Europe's transition towards a market economy, the debt burden of the Less Developed Countries, the growing and deepening discrimination against the rest of the world by new homogeneous areas such as the North America free trade area, the new Europe, and Japan are the issues at the heart of global disequilibrium in the world economy.
2010 marks the hundredth anniversary of the death of Leon Walras, the brilliant originator and first formaliser of general equilibrium theory - one of the pillars of modern economic theory.
The Essay on the Nature of Trade in General was written in the early 1730s by Richard Cantillon, a speculator and banker who had made a vast fortune during the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles of 1719-20.
The Friedman-Lucas Transition in Macroeconomics: A Structuralist Approach considers how and to what extent monetarist and new classical theories of the business-cycle can be regarded as approximately true descriptions of a cycle's causal structure or whether they can be no more than useful predictive instruments.
Developing a contemporary account of political friendship and synthesizing it with the radical movement of degrowth, this book provides the ethical grounding and the rationale of an alternative economy which serves human flourishing.
Das vorliegende Arbeitsbuch ist ein Versuch, bereits vorhandene pädagogische und lernpsychologische Erkenntnisse systematisch zur praktischen Anwendung zu bringen.
This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the first conference of the Society for Computational Economics held at ICC Institute, Austin, Texas, May 21-24, 1995.
Issues relating to the emergence, persistence, and stability of cooperation among social agents of every type are widely recognized to be of paramount importance.
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.
Although Otto Neurath left his mark across an array of fields in the first half of the twentieth century, he was trained as an economist and wrote extensively about economics.
This book describes a laboratory experiment designed to test the causes and properties of bubbles in financial markets and explores the question whether it is possible to design markets which avoid such bubbles and crashes.
Economic Policy in a Demographically Divided World containsthe economic analysis of the consequences of demographicchange and the diverging population developments in aninterdependent world economy in particular.
Herbert Scarf is a distinguished economist and has made a number of extraordinarily significant contributions to economics, game theory and operations research.
Studenten in den Fächern Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Technik, Naturwissenschaften und Informatik benötigen zu Studienbeginn bestimmte Grundkenntnisse in der Mathematik, die im vorliegenden Buch dargestellt werden.
Die "klassische" Analysis wird so breit behandelt, wie dies der spätere Anwender benötigt: Integralrechnung, unendliche Reihen (speziell: Fourier-Reihen) und gewöhnliche Differentialgleichungen einschließlich der Laplace-Transformationen.
This edited collection uses a history of economic thought perspective to explore the evolving role of Latin America within the context of globalization.
Analyzing Sraffa, one of the key figures in the history of economics, this book explores his legacy and the relevance of his thought for modern economics.
The mechanisms of protest and revolution have been the subject of theoretical research for over a century, yet the lack of data has hindered the empirical validation of conflicting theories.
Commemorating the 250th anniversary of James Mill's birth and the 150th of John Stuart Mill's death, this volume analyses the Mills' discussions on topics such as environment, cultivation, education, utilitarianism, socialism, international relations, international trade, and living standard.
Nonlinear Time Series Analysis of Economic and Financial Data provides an examination of the flourishing interest that has developed in this area over the past decade.
Optimal Control of Credit Risk presents an alternative methodology to deal with a financial problem that has not been well analyzed yet: the control of credit risk.
2017 marked the seventy-fifth anniversary of Schumpeter's Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, a work acknowledged as one of the most insightful books written in the twentieth century.
Experimental Business Research includes papers that were presented at the First Asian Conference on Experimental Business Research held at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), on December 7-10, 1999.
How identity influences the economic choices we makeIdentity Economics provides an important and compelling new way to understand human behavior, revealing how our identities-and not just economic incentives-influence our decisions.
