Economic theory and philosophy

The ancient Chinese scholars are fond of applying the Yin and Yang diagram to correlate almost everything.

In this book, Sidney Dekker sets out to identify the market mechanisms that explain how less government paradoxically leads to greater compliance burdens.

This book delves into the impacts and consequences of the policy of co-residence at the University of Oxford, investigating why and how women were kept at the periphery of the university and how Oxford responded to the growing demand for women's higher education.

Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht die Schriftauslegung des Hebräerbriefs im Zusammenhang seiner christologischen Argumentation.

Recent years have seen a return to high inflation that has sparked debate about the causal role of monetary policy in significant price increases, especially in the context of the quantity theory of money.

This book provides a historical narrative to tell the story of interwar German reparations - the debates, controversies and diplomacy surrounding the issue from the 1919 Paris peace conference to the abandonment of reparations at the Lausanne Conference in 1932.

A groundbreaking study that shows how countries can create innovative, production-based economies for the twenty-first centuryAchieving economic growth is one of today's key challenges.

This book offers a multidisciplinary account of the 'rule of law' as a central pillar of the classical liberal tradition.

Being oblivious to the motivational nuances behind human behavior could lead one to overlook the distinction that a good action does not always indicate a good character.

The Soviet Far East (1990) examines the largest economic region in the Soviet Union, the Far East.

This intriguing collection is designed to show how economists can play a more active role in designing and directing the nation's social institutions.

The Soviet Union Looks Ahead (1930) is the official statement of the five-year economic plan put forward by the Soviet Union, a plan involving the radical reconstruction of the entire production system of Russia.

This revised edition offers the most up-to-date advice for investors who wish to defend themselves, or even make a profit from, the blighted policies of the Federal Reserve.

Economics Nobel laureates are the pioneers of the science of economics.

Is Economics an 'objective' or 'positive' science, independent of ethical and political positions?

The crucial importance of the Gulf region today - which may be defined as comprising the states of Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, with Iran as a non-Arab onlooker - has stimulated surprisingly little interest in academic circles.

For linear optimization models that can be formulated as linear programs with the block-angular structure, i.

Originally published between 1951 and 1987, the 8 volumes in this set: Provide a wide-ranging and critical review of both first and second generation theories of inflation (and the related problem of unemployment), including the classical approach to macroeconomics.

The 2008 recession left the United States in deep trouble.

EBOOK: Economics for Business, 6e

Crises have been studied in many disciplines and from diverse perspectives for at least 150 years.

Continuing problems in the Canadian economy have been the occasion of a partisan debate between nationalists and continentalists, both of whom claim the staples thesis to be the premise of their proposed solutions.

Despite the dynamic development of the discipline of economics, the ways in which economics is taught and how it defines its basic principles have hardly changed, resulting in economics being criticised for its inability to provide relevant insights on global challenges.

This is the first book to provide a complete introduction to Post-Keynesian and other alternative theories of economics.

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The Political Economy of Bureaucracy applies Public Choice theory and a complex systems view of government institutions to analyze policy implementation as an economic process.

Adam Ferguson (1723-1816) was a major figure of the Scottish Enlightenment whose thought was, in many respects, original and distinctive.

El socialismo fiduciario también podría llamarse socialismo flexible, ya que libera al socialismo de las rigideces impuestas por la ley histórica.

In this bold, captivating and controversial book, the author combines his own intensely moving personal accounts with incisive scriptural analysis, and challenges the reader to reassess what they think they know about Judas Iscariot and suicide.

This three volume series of intellectual biography considers the life, work and impact on economic, social and political theory of the Italian economist, sociologist and political scientist Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923).

First published in 1981, Professor Mishan's Economic Efficiency and Social Welfare: Selected Essays on Fundamental Aspects of the Economic Theory of Social Welfare is a collection of 22 pioneering essays written while the author was teaching at the London School of Economics and chosen to indicate landmarks in the development of his own thought.

The new institutional economics has been one of the most influential schools of thought to emerge in the past quarter century.

Bernard Lonergan's economic writings span forty years and represent one of the most important intellectual achievements of the twentieth century.

This book examines the interrelations between Russian and European economics from the early 19th century to the present.

This book focuses on the gradual reform of Chinese society since China's opening up to the world, and gives a unified explanation of the process based on bargaining theory.

Inflation plays a central role in macroeconomic and financial policy regulation, and its dynamic formation has gradually become a popular research topic in this field.

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This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to mathematical calculus.