Economic theory and philosophy

This book reviews and develops Bayesian non-parametric and semi-parametric methods for applications in microeconometrics and quantitative marketing.

China is currently the front-runner on the global crowdfunding market, even though this form of financing originated in the USA.

Someone once said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.

Hayek's philosophical psychology as set out in his The Sensory Order (1952) has, for the most part, been neglected.

Why are America and Britain wealthier than ever but millions of children live in poverty, neighbourhoods want for basic amenities and the middle classes fear for their families, jobs and futures?

A lot of economic problems can formulated as constrained optimizations and equilibration of their solutions.

Selected essays from the eminent economist, Wynne Godley, tracing the development of his work and illuminating the key theories and models that made his name.

This is a history-though, intentionally, a brief history-of the rise of law and economics as a field of thought in the U.

Through the lens of multi- and interdisciplinarity, this book highlights the potential of progress in cloud computing technologies, metaverse development, and digital transformation in charting a path to economic and social recovery, governance process and societal evolution  enabling to tackle the global polycrises  triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.

The concept of economic democracy is traditionally identified with workplace democracy and participation at the enterprise level.

Social protection systems in Latin America developed in a fragmented manner, offering varying access to benefits and benefit levels to population groups.

This book brings together leading contributors to explore the development of political economy in eighteenth century France from an interdisciplinary perspective, in particular the ideas for social reform proposed before the Revolution.

Marx claims that unselfishness is a child of (workplace) culture, whereas the gene is selfish.

This work aims to provide unique insights into the multidisciplinary research on spatial disparities from an unconventional point of view.

This book offers an intellectual history of the libertarian case for markets in education.

Optimal tax design attempts to resolve a well-known trade-off: namely, that high taxes are bad insofar as they discourage people from working, but good to the degree that, by redistributing wealth, they help insure people against productivity shocks.

There is no inevitable logic of capitalism.

Behavioural Economics and Experiments addresses key topics within behavioural economics, exploring vital questions around decision-making and human nature.

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

This book provides an introductory and sympathetic discussion of John Kenneth Galbraith''s theoretical contributions to economic thought.

This book paints a portrait of social life in America by providing an accessible discussion of empirical economics research on issues such as illegal immigration, health care and climate change.

Today it appears that we understand more about the universe than about our interconnected socio-economic world.

This book applies finance to the field of capital theory.

Adam Smiths Theorie der ethischen Gefühle (1759) erfährt seit einigen Jahren zunehmende Beachtung.

Olof Dahlback's book breaks new ground for the analysis of crime from a rationality perspective by presenting models and methods that go far beyond those with which researchers have hitherto been equipped.

This book constitutes a thorough analysis of the phenomenon of corruption, as seen from the perspective of New Institutional Economics - one of the most influential new schools of thought in the social sciences of the past decade.

Modern economics makes much of its claim to be impartial, objective and value-free but it is unable to address our most immediate problems such as widespread environmental degradation and persistent poverty.

Anti-economics is described as the opposition to the main stream of economic thought that has existed from the Eighteenth-century to the present day.

People who put the public good before their own self interest have been admired throughout history.

Computationally-intensive tools play an increasingly important role in financial decisions.

This book places knowledge, learning and innovation at the heart of cross-sector collaborations.

Dieses Lehrbuch befasst sich eingehend mit den Grundlagen der Wirtschaftspolitik.

Packed with examples, this book offers a clear and engaging overview of ethical issues in business.

For a century now Marxists have been searching for a 'rational kernel' of Hegelian 'dialectics' inside the 'mystical shell' of the Hegelian system.

Economic Policy provides a unique combination of facts-based analysis, state-of-the art economic theory, and insights from first-hand policy experience at the national and international levels to shed light on current domestic and international policy challenges.

This book is about accounting in an alternative libertarian socialist economic system.

The Theory of the Firm presents an innovative general analysis of the economics of the firm.

This book considers the treatment of equilibrium by several of the most important schools of thought in economics, including:* neoclassical economics,* the neo-Ricardian economics,* Post-Keynesian economics - both those who follow Joan Robinson in denying any interpretative role to equilibrium in economic theorizing and those who use the notion of equilibrium, but re-defined from a Classical or Keynesian perspective.

Dynamic tools of analysis and modelling are increasingly used in Economics and Biology and have become more and more sophisticated in recent years, to the point where the general students without training in Dynamic Systems (DS) would be at a loss.

This brief presents a detailed look at the entrepreneurial ecosystem of nations around the world by combining individual data with institutional components.