Economic theory and philosophy

The third volume of edited papers from the Tenth World Congress of the Econometric Society 2010.

The first book to use the world's most popular sport to test economic theories and document novel human behaviorA wealth of research in recent decades has seen the economic approach to human behavior extended over many areas previously considered to belong to sociology, political science, law, and other fields.

This book focuses on taxation and economic policy making.

Since the publication of the first edition of Network Economics: A Variational Inequality Approach in 1993, there have been many ad- vances in both methodological developments, as well as, applications in this field.

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

Based on the observation of economic reality, this book provides for the foundations of a new structure of national payment systems.

In characterising the Japanese way of business, Professor Okumura has made one of the most significant contributions to the study of economics.

William Stanley Jevons occupies a pivotal position in the history of economic thought, spanning the transition from classical to neo-classical economics and playing a key role in the Marginal Revolution.

A pervasive force that evades easy analysis, globalization has come to represent the export and import of culture, the speed and intensity of which has increased to unprecedented levels in recent years.

The twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall saw many reflect on the political, economic and social changes of recent years.

This book provides tips to teachers for moving toward active learning by using simulation and gaming.

The dominant neoliberal approach presents politics and political economy as nuisances which disturb the smooth operation of self-regulating markets.

First published in 1913, this Routledge Revivals title reissues J.

Modern institutional economics was created to study the institutions of pre-digital economies and is based on reductionist approaches.

Despite his achievements, David Ricardo's views on money have often been misunderstood and underappreciated.

The classics heavily influenced many aspects of European modern culture, yet it is not easy to trace their intellectual power on any author.

Since the first Congress in Zurich in 1897, the ICM has been an eagerly- awaited event every four years.

This book explores recent developments and exciting challenges in operations research and mathematical optimization.

Technological, economic, and regulatory changes are some of the driving forces in the modern world of finance.

How should Europe cope with the negative and still unfolding economic consequences of the current economic crisis?

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.

Die frühen, erstmals 1932 aus dem Nachlass publizierten »Ökonomisch-philosophischen Manuskripte« (auch: Pariser Manuskripte) bieten einen Schlüsseltext für das philosophische Verständnis des Marxschen Gesamtwerks, der Antrieb und Zielpunkt seines Denkens offenlegt, also das benennt, was in den ökonomischen Analysen der späteren Zeit vorausgesetzt, aber nicht mehr ausgesprochen wird.

This timely volume tells the fascinating story of how an almost forgotten classical liberalism resuscitated itself in America.

Research on the spatial aspects of economic activity has flourished over the past decade due to the emergence of new theory, new data, and an intense interest on the part of policymakers, especially in Europe but increasingly in North America and elsewhere as well.

Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology (RHETM) is a book series dedicated to an interdisciplinary approach to a broad range of topics related to the history and methodology of economics.

Under the impressive editorship of Warren Samuels et al, this book addresses the state of the history of economic thought today.

The papers assembled in this book were presented at the biannual symposium of Inter- national Association for Statistical Computing in Neuchcitel, Switzerland, in August of 1992.

The general assumption that social policy should be utilitarian--that society should be organized to yield the greatest level of welfare--leads inexorably to increased government interventions.

Edmond Malinvaud This book provides a most welcome survey of what statisticians and economists know about an aspect of production that is difficult to precisely characterize but matters a lot for both its importance on economic performance and its social implications.

Values-based organizations are institutions, communities and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) which are inspired by a mission or a vocation - for these groups it is their ideals which are most important to them and economics does not have a way to incorporate that into its analysis.

The history of European economic thought has long been written by those seeking to prove or disprove the truth-value of the theories they describe.

Most organizations spend much of their effort on the start of the value creation process: namely, creating a strategy, developing new products or services, and analyzing the market.

This book develops a new political economy, enabling us to see, understand and advocate a diverse economy beyond capitalism and socialism.

Those familiar with input-output analysis know well that compilation of input-output tables is a difficult statistical work.

Ben Bernanke's history of the Federal Reserve and its response to the 2008 financial crisisIn 2012, Ben Bernanke, chairman of the U.

Aggregation is the conjunction of information, aimed at its compact represen- tation.

In this landmark work of economic sociology, Lucien Karpik introduces the theory and practical tools needed to analyze markets for singularities.

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.

In an era of globalization, private markets are expected to dominate the distribution of goods worldwide.

This Palgrave Pivot reviews the history of the UK's Retail Prices Index (RPI) from its origins just after the Second World War to its controversial position today.

A book which covers the key period in the history of actuarial science from the mid-17th century to the early 19th century.

Ein KlassikerErschienen 1776, also vor rund 240 Jahren, gilt ›Der Wohlstand der Nationen‹ nach wie vor als einer der einflussreichsten Texte der Neuzeit, als Geburtsstunde der Volkswirtschaftslehre.