Economic theory and philosophy

This book utilizes structural models to provide a better understanding of how commodities'' prices behave and what drives them.

This book introduces the theory of stochastic processes with applications taken from physics and finance.

Many philosophers today take the empiricist or rationalist stance that mainstream economics is self-centered and naive.

Harold Innis was one of the most profound thinkers that Canada ever produced.

This study, first published in 1983, is primarily concerned with what the British economists over the period 1860 to 1914 wrote on a range of economic and non-economic aspects of the British Empire, and the reasons for their conclusions.

Negotiations are of increasing importance in highly regulated sectors, particularly in the network industries such as telecommunications and transport.

In recent years there has been a spectacular revival of interest in the economics of the Austrian school.

Though the Epistle to the Romans repeatedly mentions the issue of evil, suffering, and oppression (Rom 5, 8, 12, etc), one rarely finds studies of its contribution to this issue.

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

This book originated from a 2010 conference marking the fortieth anniversary of the publication of the landmark "e;Phelps volume,"e; Microeconomic Foundations of Employment and Inflation Theory, a book that is often credited with pioneering the currently dominant approach to macroeconomic analysis.

Statistics for Lawyers presents the science of statistics in action at the cutting edge of legal problems.

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Alexis de Tocqueville's work touched upon an exceptionally broad range of social scientific disciplines, from economics to religion, and from education to international affairs.

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall we have been told that no alternative to Western capitalism is possible or desirable.

This book contains a collection of original and state-of-the-art contributions in rational choice and general equilibrium theory.

This book, originally published in 1977, is a comparative study of worker participation in France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Britain.

Now in its sixth edition, this textbook presents the tools and concepts used in multivariate data analysis in a style accessible for non-mathematicians and practitioners.

Cost Analysis is an emerging sub-discipline of Economics and Operations Research.

Conventional economic theory assumes that consumers are fully rational, that they have well-defined preferences and easily understand the market environment.

While the dynamics of market attachments have been extensively analyzed, the implied other to this - market detachments - have not.

Rejects the perception of Engels as perpetuator of a ''tragic deception'' of Marx, and the body of opinion treating him as ''his master''s voice''.

Trade is the lifeblood of the global economy, but few would consider it a social good.

To date, the record of economic transition has decidedly been mixed.

This is the third corrected and extended edition of a book on deterministic and stochastic Growth Theory and the computational methods needed to produce numerical solutions.

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New approach to the economic theory of resources, showing the positive role that scarcities can play in triggering economic growth.

This critical exposition of Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments, first published in 1971, gives an appreciation of Smith's conception of scientific method as applied to the study of social phenomena.

The disappearance of central planned economies left politicians, researchers, consultants, and academics with an interest in economies in transition in vagueness about the actual state of the economy and its short and medium term prospects.

Otto Neurath (1882-1945) was a highly unorthodox thinker both in philosophy and economics.

Human genetics has changed little over the past 20,000 years, but human economic behaviour has changed a lot.

The literature surveys presented in this edited volume provide readers with up-to-date reviews on eleven contemporary topics in finance.

This book identifies what is living and what is dead in Max Weber''s analyses of China, India and Ancient Israel.

This volume will present experimental economics research focusing on issues of environmental quality and sustainability.

Emerging in the late 1970s, the Amsterdam School's (AS) most distinctive contribution to international political economy was the systematic incorporation of the Marxian concept of capital fractions into the study of international politics.

While ethics has been an integral part of economics since the days of Adam Smith (if not Aristotle), many modern economists dismiss ethical concerns in favor of increasing formal mathematical and computational methods.

This book analyses the processes of commodification and decommodification which have wrought changes in Polish society since 1945.

What were all those diplomats and bureaucrats from all over the world doing at the United Nations over the past half century when they were not debating how to prevent countries from tearing at each other or how to feed and shelter victims of natural or man-made disasters around the globe?

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Research in Health Economics has developed into a separate discipline for the last 25 years.

This volume addresses fundamental issues in the philosophy of science in the context of two most intriguing fields: biology and economics.

This book aims to answer two questions that are fundamental to the study of agent-based economic models: what is agent-based computational economics and why do we need agent-based economic modelling of economy?