Economic theory and philosophy

Reading Television was the first book to push the boundaries of television studies beyond the insights offered by cultural studies and textual analysis, creating a vibrant new field of study.

Drawing on the expertise of archaeologists, historians, biblical scholars, and social-science interpreters who have devoted a significant amount of time and energy in the research of ancient Galilee, this accessible volume includes modern general studies of Galilee and of Galilean history, as well as specialized studies on taxation, ethnicity, religious practices, road systems, trade and markets, education, health, village life, houses, and the urban-rural divide.

Stigma is a corrosive social force by which individuals and communities throughout history have been systematically dehumanised, scapegoated and oppressed.

This book's premise is not only the commonly accepted cultural relativity of economic concepts, but also the observation that the current shift in the meaning of concepts like "e;market,"e; "e;currency,"e; "e;exchange,"e; and "e;money"e; suggests that culture is undergoing a change with unpredictable economic and political consequences.

Even after the experience of WWII and despite the existence of various institutions such as United Nations to avoid conflict between nations, we have not succeeded in making a world free from war.

This brief captures the contextual features of entrepreneurship by measuring entrepreneurial attitudes, abilities, and aspirations at both the individual- and country-level.

This book covers the whole system of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, dealing with Deng Xiaoping's theory, the socialist market economy, a moderately well-off (Xiaokang) society, China's practice and theory of socialist democracy, human rights, and Xi Jinping's Marxism.

The global economy has witnessed important changes in recent years.

A collection of papers on the relevance of Keynes' economic theory after 50 years.

In this book overlapping generations economies are analysedfrom a game theoretical point of view and the socialacceptability of consumption allocations is studied ininfinite horizon models of pure exchange economieswithagents with finite lifetimes who behave cooperatively.

This book is the first systematic treatment of the philosophy of science underlying evolutionary economics.

Der Autor verfolgt das Ziel, das Perspektiventableau für die Lernprozesse in der politischen Bildung zu erweitern.

The essays in this book, originally published in 1984, examine many problems within the structure of industry including wage policies, financial incentives and other economic policies.

In the economic debate, power is defined and studied mainly as an interpersonal relation occurring out of perfect competition.

This book provides both conceptual knowledge of quantitative finance and a hands-on approach to using Python.

This is an excerpt from the 4-volume dictionary of economics, a reference book which aims to define the subject of economics today.

The economic crisis is also a crisis for economic theory.

The financial crash of 2008 showed the fragility of the financial system.

Das vorliegende Lehrbuch richtet sich an alle Interessierten - ob Studenten an Universitäten, Fachhochschulen, Akademien oder dualen Ausbildungsgängen, ob Praktiker oder Wirtschaftspolitiker -, die sich mit grundlegenden einzelwirtschaftlichen und gesamtwirtschaftlichen Größen und Zusammenhängen in unserer Volkswirtschaft befassen und sie möglichst aus einem systematischen Ansatz heraus beschrieben bzw.

Originally published in 1932, this volume The World's Economic Crisis: and the Way of Escape contains six lectures delivered under the auspices of the Sir Halley Stewart Trust in 1931.

Islamic finance has emerged to meet the financial needs of people who seek a different approach to conventional banking and finance.

Dieses aus drei Einzelbänden bestehende Werk bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über das Gebiet des Operations Research (OR).

The impressive young scholar Bert Mosselmans, analyzing the theory and policy of Jevons, a major figure in the field of the history of economics, has put together a volume with broad international appeal, particularly in Europe, North America and Japan, that offers a synthetic approach to Jevons' economic theory, applied economics and economic policy.

Building upon the previous editions, this textbook is a first course in stochastic processes taken by undergraduate and graduate students (MS and PhD students from math, statistics, economics, computer science, engineering, and finance departments) who have had a course in probability theory.

Combining a statistical physics approach and rigorous econometric analysis, this new framework looks at growth and decline in business firms.

The NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) "e;Algorithms and Model Formulations in Mathematical Programming"e; was held at Chr.

Adam Smith and Friedrich Hayek saw the liberty principle as focal and accorded it strong presumption, but their wisdom invokes how little we can know.

It is uncontroversial that corporations are legal agents that can be held legally responsible, but can corporations also be moral agents that are morally responsible?

Covering the period from November 1918 to the restoration of the Gold Standard in the UK in April 1925, this book, originally published in 1947, sets out and explains the economic facts of the immediate post-war period.

This book examines corporate reform in Japan by focusing on corporate governance and the employment system.

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

The Physiology of Industry is a remarkable work which set out to challenge contemporary theory surrounding the economics of labour, supply and demand.

This book about mathematics and methodology for economics is the result of the lifelong experience of the authors.

Americans tend to believe that their country is very different from Europe.

Over the last several decades, there has been a growing interest in theoretical, empirical, and experimental work on all aspects of tax compliance and tax evasion.

'Situational Analysis' represents Karl Popper's methodological proposal for the social sciences.

Best known for reviving the tradition of classical liberalism, F.

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