Evolutionary Social Theory and Political Economy traces the origins, extension, marginalization and revival of evolutionary approaches to social theory from the Enlightenment through the beginning of the 21st century.
Evolutionary Social Theory and Political Economy traces the origins, extension, marginalization and revival of evolutionary approaches to social theory from the Enlightenment through the beginning of the 21st century.
El objetivo central de este trabajo es el de contribuir a que los lectores avancen en entendimientos disciplinados sobre el devenir de las bases productivas e institucionales de la economia ecuatoriana a lo largo de una primera bonanza petrolera (1965-1981), de dos decadas perdidas (1982-1999), de una segunda bonanza petrolera (2000-2014) y de un epilogo (2015-2017), en el cual la caida de los precios del crudo, al tiempo que la ha puesto en crisis, ha suscitado tambien una proliferacion de iniciativas encaminadas a ver como es que la patria sale del atolladero.
This book offers a novel treatment of one of the most important and long-standing research agendas in critical political economy: the theorizing of stages of capitalist development.
This book covers the main topics of welfare economics - general equilibrium models of exchange and production, Pareto optimality, un- certainty, externalities and public goods - and some of the major topics of social choice theory - compensation criteria, fairness, voting.
Soviet Agriculture in Perspective (1969) examines the framework within which Soviet agriculture had to operate from the start: the dilemma of a revolutionary regime in a backward peasant country, the straightjacket of a bureaucratic system inherited from Tsarism, made even more rigid by the internal tensions of the new society, and the imperative needs of economic development.
Is the United States "e;the land of equal opportunity"e; or is the playing field tilted in favor of those whose parents are wealthy, well educated, and white?
Wrecking Activities at Power Stations in the Soviet Union (1933) is a valuable historical document that presents a verbatim report of the trials of various Soviet and British engineers and workers accused of acts of sabotage against the Soviet energy infrastructure.
Based on an intimate knowledge of the subject and his environment, this biography of the most influential economist of the twentieth century traces Keynes' career on all its many levels.
The Communist Economic Challenge (1965) examines the substantial industrial development in the Soviet Union, and its European satellites, and China, looking at Khrushchev's boast that by 1970 the USSR's industrial output would surpass that of the USA.
For two decades thinking on economic policy has been dominated by the idea of economic liberalization in general and financial deregulation in particular.
Revolutionary ideas on how to use markets to achieve fairness and prosperity for allMany blame today's economic inequality, stagnation, and political instability on the free market.
Why economics needs to focus on fairness and not just efficiencyOne of the central tenets of mainstream economics is Adam Smith's proposition that, given certain conditions, self-interested behavior by individuals leads them to the social good, almost as if orchestrated by an invisible hand.
Marx's Capital has of course been widely read; this revival of a systematic study by Geoffrey Pilling, originally published in 1980, argues powerfully that, in order to understand Capital fully, it is necessary to have read and understood Hegel's Logic.
Revealing the human side of economic lifeOver the past three decades, economic sociology has been revealing how culture shapes economic life even while economic facts affect social relationships.
This reissued work, originally published in 1985, is a uniquely broad and original survey of theories and beliefs about the growth, behaviour, performance and reform of the governments of modern Western democracies.
Modes of Explanation is the first book in decades to attempt to bring these conflicting approaches together and to offer a compelling narrative to explore how the paradox of 'explanation' can converge.
The ideal review for your intro to mathematical economics courseMore than 40 million students have trusted Schaum s Outlines for their expert knowledge and helpful solved problems.
Luigi Einaudi (1874-1961) was a leading liberal Italian economist, economic historian and political figure: Governor of the Bank of Italy, Minister for the Budget and President of the Italian Republic.
Volume 41A of Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology features a symposium on "e;Religion, the Scottish Enlightenment, and the Rise of Liberalism,"e; a new research essay by Syed Mohib Ali, and a roundtable on the institutionalist economics of Geoffrey Hodgson.
This book details very simply and for even the most novice of potential analysts not only how to perform analytics which describe what is happening, predict what is going to happen, and optimize responses, but also places these analytics in the context of proactive strategy development.
This collection brings together significant new contributions to the Sraffa--based theories of production and distribution, from post-Keynesian arguments concerning monetary and macro economics to the history of thought and methodology.
