Economic theory and philosophy

Im Mittelpunkt steht ein (spiel-)theoretisch wie auch experimentell untersuchter Finanzmarkt, dessen Preisbildungsmechanismus wohl erstmalig unter vollständiger Endogenisierung der zugrundeliegenden Fundamentalwerte geschlossen modelliert wird.

This book contains a selection of the Wincott lectures, given by eminent economists (including four Nobel laureates).

Exit from Globalization moves from theory to practice: from questions of where incorrigible knowledge of substantive economic life derives and how that knowledge is put towards making a progressive, redistributive, eco-sustainable future of human flourishing.

Annually, the government commits significant expenditure to a type of public contracts which are known as Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) or the Private Finance Initiative (PFI).

Risk has become one of the main topics in fields as diverse as engineering, medicine and economics, and it is also studied by social scientists, psychologists and legal scholars.

Economic policymakers use various macroeconomic models, but how reliable are they in real-world conditions?

This book provides a broad picture of solution concepts that are highly applicable to operations and supply chain settings and to explicate these concepts with some of the relevant problems in operations management in multi-agent settings.

Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) is a promising approach to understanding our complex world and addressing contemporary social issues.

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

Wage policy can be broadly defined as a set of institutions designed to bolster the wages of workers, especially for those workers who lack negotiating power.

A study of "economic imperialism" based on a theoretical inquiry into the most important research frontier in the scholarly field: the analysis of constitutions.

Quantitative Methods for Finance and Investments ensures that readers come away from reading it with a reasonable degree of comfort and proficiency in applying elementary mathematics to several types of financial analysis.

Der renommierte US-amerikanische Wirtschaftsprofessor James K.

The Ottoman Empire (1299-1923) existed at the crossroads of the East and the West.

A very commonly observed phenomenon in developing and emerging market economies is the use of another country's currency (whether the US dollar or another currency) in lieu or in addition to the local currency.

Wang proposes and applies an innovative analytical framework to study the institutional continuity and changes in China.

This book is a collection of 20 chapters on chosen topics from cross-section and panel data econometrics.

In a globalizing, knowledge-based economy, innovation and creative capacity lead to economic prosperity.

In An Engine, Not a Camera, Donald MacKenzie argues that the emergence of modern economic theories of finance affected financial markets in fundamental ways.

As he did so brilliantly in his bestselling book, jewish literacy,Joseph Teluslikin once again mines a subject of, Jewish history and religion so richly that his book becomes an inspiring companion and a fundamental reference.

New technology arguably provided the greatest challenge to industrial relations since the formation of unions.

This book argues for the abolition of the employment system in favor of workplace democracy and thus escapes the usual capitalism-versus-socialism binary choice by reframing the basic issue as the employment contract, not private property or a market economy.

This book takes a new look at the golden age in neoclassical growth theory and explores in detail sustainability and optimum growth in China, the US and Europe.

Industrial Policies after 2000 investigates industrial policy during a time of deregulation, privatization and a growing interest in small government.

Smith's Wealth of Nations, Marx's Capital, and Keynes's General Theory are three paradigmatic texts which are foundational to any study of economics or political economy.

Henry A.

This unique volume combines chapters containing a multidisciplinary academic analysis of the causes of the continued existence of contemporary forms of slavery, such as globalization, poverty and migration with empirical chapters on trafficking, domestic migrant workers, bonded labour and child labour in Asia, Latin America and Africa.

The key to achieving mass flourishing is culture - not genes, geography, institutions, or policies.

No region in the world has seen so much development activity in the last ten years as the Gulf area.

Max Weber (1864-1920) has long been considered a founding figure of sociology.

Entscheidungen unter Unsicherheit können mit dem üblichen Erwartungsnutzenkonzept häufig nicht angemessen modelliert werden, da die zugrunde liegenden Informationen den wahrscheinlichkeitstheoretischen Anforderungen nicht genügen.

Reprinting the second edition (which included a new introduction explaining developments which had emerged since first publication) this book discusses explorations in the fundamental theory of a monetary economy, a theoretical critique of the 'Phillips Curve' approach to the theory of inflation and the theory of the term structure of interest rates in terms of the theory of forward markets pioneered by David Meiselman.

In the twentieth century there were two great political and social paradigms, the liberal-democratic and the libertarian (in its various socialist, anarchist, and communist delineations).

This accessible textbook introduces the foundations of applied econometrics and statistics for undergraduate students.

In line with the development of political theology and economic theology in contemporary European thought, Credit and Faith offers a critical account of the faith structures within economic life and institutions.

Both a grounding in the origins and development of Keynesian economics, this study also looks at the ongoing significance of his work.