Economic theory and philosophy

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.

Corruption has been part of our economic and political life since ancient times.

This book explores the renewal of forms of capital accumulation and the institutions that shape it.

The growth of digital technologies and Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to increase global wealth and tackle some of the world's most serious problems, including economic marginalization.

First published in 1997, this volume is an attempt to study the patterns of social support among Chinese working mothers in a Beijing neighbourhood with the aim of developing a beginning understanding of the Chinese conception of social support.

This book is the very first book-length study devoted to the advances in technological development and systems research in cooperative economics.

This vital addition to the Routledge History of Economic Thought series surveys arguably the most important country in the development of economics as we know it today - the United States of America.

Most books on happiness are concerned with answering, in their diverse ways, a basic question: how should I live?

This book offers a new account of David Ricardo's political economy that is both scholarly and accessible.

An updated look at global trade and why it remains as controversial as everFree trade is always under attack, more than ever in recent years.

This book discusses contemporary banking and monetary policy issues from the perspective of the Austrian School of Economics.

Die Idee der Freiheit wirkt integral in alle Lebensbereiche, insbesondere in die Ökonomie: Ob als Grundlage moderner Wirtschafts-, Arbeits- und Organisationsformen, ob als Konsumentensouveränität, ob als Gestaltungsproblem bei der (Selbst-)Organisation, der "Traum vom freien Leben" bewegt die Menschen.

This volume examines central questions about the nature of economic theory, its historical development and its explanatory power.

This book focuses on how neoliberal market practices engender new forms of religiosity, and how religiosity shapes economic actions.

This book is at the cutting edge of the ongoing research in bioeconomy and encompasses both technological and economic strategies to master the transformation towards a knowledge- and bio-based production system.

This is a revised and updated edition of a classic work on the methodology of economics.

Research in Experimental Economics focuses on laboratory experimental economics, but welcomes work from authors of theoretical, empirical, or field economic research if it would be of interest to the broader experimental economics community.

While liberal democracies are the best systems of self-governance for societies, they rarely invoke great enthusiasm.

This book brings together key players in the current debate on positive and normative science and philosophy and value judgements in economics.

The field of spatial econometrics, which is concerned with statistical and econo- metric techniques to be used to handle spatial effects in multiregional models, was first touched upon in the 1950s.

Today, the most pressing challenges for public economics are of macroeconomic nature: pensions, debt, income distribution, and fiscal sustainability.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Grundriss der Sozialethik" verfügbar.

Monetary Policy and the Economy in South Africa covers both modern theories and empirical analysis, linking monetary policy with relating house wealth, drivers of current account based on asset approach, expenditure switching and income absorption effects of monetary policy on trade balance, effects of inflation uncertainty on output growth and international spill overs.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of Brazilian economic thought ranging from colonial times through to the early 21st century.

Aging populations are a major consideration for socio-economic development in the early 21st century.

Alongside other types of mass atrocities, genocide has received extensive scholarly, policy, and practitioner attention.

Friedrich List (1789-1846) was a prophet of social market economy, national economy and the infant-industry theory.

Since the days of Adam Smith, ethics and economics have been closely intertwined, and were nominally separated only with the advent of neoclassical economics in the beginning of the last century.

I started to deal with genetic algorithms in 1993 when I was working on a project on learning and rational behavior in economic systems.

Noch vor wenigen Jahrzehnten galten Märkte als Institutionen, mit denen sich Probleme in nahezu allen gesellschaftlichen Bereichen effizient und zum Vorteil aller Bürgerinnen und Bürger lösen lassen.

This book provides a theoretical and historical examination of the evolution of money.

In this book, originally published in 1918, the Leonard S.

The purpose of this contributed volume is to consider how global consumption patterns will develop in the next few decades, and what the consequences of that development will be for the economy, policymakers, and society at large.

In diesem Buch wird die Soziale Marktwirtschaft erstmals aus der Sicht ihres Begründers, Ludwig Erhard, beschrieben.

This trilogy deals with an epistemology of economics, arguing for a radical overturning of conventional analysis and providing an alternative to political economy and social sciences, based not on positivism, but on a normative and programming paradigm.

Microfinance began with the noble aim of alleviating poverty through the extension of small loans to poor borrowers, and has grown to now serve approximately 200,000,000 people-the majority of whom are female.

The volume examines macroeconomic policies for developing countries.

The 'classical' approach to economic problems, which can be traced back to Adam Smith and David Ricardo, has seen a remarkable revival in recent years.

This second volume on the political and social economy of financialization in the US focuses on the consequences of the rise of finance for the American macroeconomy, household inequality, and the management of nonfinancial business enterprises.

Industrial policy has long been regarded as a strategy to encourage sector-, industry-, or economy-wide development by the state.

This book provides an evaluation of 18 voting procedures in terms of the most important monotonicity-related criteria in fixed and variable electorates.

This book illuminates the work of Werner Sombart, a key contemporary of Max Weber, showing how his writing and thinking laid the groundwork for concepts of modern capitalism.

This book considers a range of problems in operations research, which are formulated through various mathematical models such as complementarity, variational inequalities, multiobjective optimization, fixed point problems, noncooperative games and inverse optimization.