Economic theory and philosophy

This concise primer (based on lectures given at summer schools on complex systems and on a masters degree course in complex systems modeling) will provide graduate students and newcomers to the field with the basic knowledge of the concepts and methods of statistical physics and its potential for application to interdisciplinary topics.

The theory of the firm did not exist, in any serious manner, until around 1970.

In the years following its publication, F.

Originally published in 1992 and now with an updated Preface this book analyses the development of innovations using a network perspective.

Although historians usually trace its origins to the Haitian Revolution of the late 18th Century, Latin American political, economic and cultural emancipation is still very much a work in progress.

How do managers of a firm choose between alternative finan- cial policies?

People live by ideas which help them to make sense of their experiences.

General equilibrium In this book we try to cope with the challenging task of reviewing the so called general equilibrium model and of discussing one specific aspect of the approach underlying it, namely, market completeness.

This book examines the relationship between the property market and urban economy.

First published in English in 1929, this is a reissue of Otto Ruhle's comprehensive biography of Karl Marx.

In 1989 the federal government spent $1197 billion, a mind-boggling sum that is almost impossible to visualize.

This textbook offers a practical and engaging introduction to spatial econometric modelling, detailing the key models, methodologies and tools required to successfully apply a spatial approach.

For most of the vast span of human history, economic growth was all but nonexistent.

Austrian economist, Ludwig von Mises, was one of the most original and controversial economists of the 20th century, both as a defender of free-market liberalism and a leading opponent of socialism and the interventionist-welfare state.

First published in 1914 and reissued with a new introduction in 1992, Work and Wealth is a seminal vision of Hobson's liberal utopian ideals, which desired to demonstrate how economic and social reform could transform existing society into one in which the majority of the population, as opposed to a small elite, could find fulfillment.

Originally published in 1973, the aim of this work was to discuss the various factors governing the rate of growth of the British economy since the First World War.

The third book in the Great Minds in Finance series examines the pricing of securities and the risk/reward trade off through the legends, contribution, and legacies of Jacob Marschak, William Sharpe, Fischer Black and Myron Scholes, and Robert Merton, influencing both theory and practice, answering the question 'how do we measure risk?

An important feature of this book is its analysis of various contemporary issues in applied economics, distinguished by advanced theoretical research and empirical analysis focusing on Japan and Korea.

The first work to seriously and successfully bridge twentieth century economics and philosophy.

Since the mid-1960s, citizens' rights in the United States have improved across many areas, including race, gender, sexuality, physical disabilities, age, consumption of goods, voting, and more.

Since 2007, central banks of industrialized countries have counteracted financial instability, recession, and deflationary risks with unprecedented monetary policy operations.

This book provides an introductory treatment of time series econometrics, a subject that is of key importance to both students and practitioners of economics.

This book shows that research contributions from different fields-finance, economics, computer sciences, and physics-can provide useful insights into key issues in financial and cryptocurrency markets.

After unification large amounts of money were spent to retrain the East Germany labour force in order to ease the transition to the new market economy.

This is an introduction to the foundations of economic property rights t- ory (EPRT).

This book shows how the Keynesian approach to business cycles can be used to explain and understand the current financial crisis.

This book describes the classical axiomatic theories of decision under uncertainty, as well as critiques thereof and alternative theories.

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This book is a sequel to our first report of ASIAN LINK PROJECT in 1985: Econometric Models of Asian LINK, Springer-Verlag, Tokyo - Berlin - New York.

This book offers the first intellectual biography of the Anglo Australian economist, Colin Clark.

The global economy has witnessed important changes in recent years.

The New Keynesian Economics has been the most significant development in economics in recent years.

The book examines problems associated with green growth and sustainable development on the basis of recent contributions in economics, natural sciences and applied mathematics, especially optimal control theory.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Grundlegende Zusammenhänge zwischen ökonomischer und sozialer Effektivität im entwickelten Sozialismus" verfügbar.

This monograph examines the domain of classical political economy using the methodologies developed in recent years both by the new discipline of econo-physics and by computing science.

Adam Smith's contribution to economics is well recognised, but scholars have recently been exploring anew the multidisciplinary nature of his works.

The purpose of this book is to bring together, for the first time, a description and examples of the main methods used in microsimulation modelling used in the field of income distribution analysis.

This book brings together the work of scholars who have written for it independent essays in their areas of particular expertise in the general field of income distribution.

This book examines macroeconomic theory from an analytical framework provided by theories of complex systems, in contrast to conventional theories founded on aggregation.

The material contained in this book originated in interrogations about modern practice in time series analysis.

In recent decades normative reasons-considerations that count in favor of one thing or another-have come to the theoretical fore in ethics and epistemology.