Economic theory and philosophy

Funded by the tobacco and fossil fuel industries, the Mises- and Hayek-inspired 'free' market has adopted 'The Slogan of Liberty' - but should their faith-based assertions be accorded the same epistemological status as a science?

This book presents an alternative approach to monetary theory that differs from the General Theory of Keynes, the Monetarism of Friedman, and the New Classicism of Lucas.

This book discloses the economic foundations of European fiscal and monetary policies by introducing readers to an array of alternative approaches in economics.

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.

This book presents a survey of the aspects of economic complexity, with a focus on foundational, interdisciplinary ideas.

This book explores the origins of Arthur Laffer's economic theories and how they became a part of mainstream economic policy.

This book analyzes the 2018 and 2019 men's and women's World Cups to understand how the use of Video Assistant Referees (VAR) affected each tournament.

This book, now in its third edition, explores how human populations grow, based on their creative abilities.

This book demonstrates the continuing relevance of economics for understanding the world, through a restatement of the importance of plurality and heterodox ideas for teaching and research.

This book explores the American freemarket economy, espoused by Alan Greenspan, the longtime chairman of the Federal Reserve, through decoding the discourse of economics.

This edited volume presents the key unresolved debates in monetary macroeconomics, covering the five topics of budget, trade, taxes, exchange rates and monetary policy.

This book deals with 18 voting procedures used or proposed for use in elections resulting in the choice of a single winner.

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.

This book provides a practical introduction to mathematics for economics using R software.

This title brings together frontier research on complex economic systems, heterogeneous interacting agents, bounded rationality, and nonlinear dynamics in economics.

Empirical laws are rare in economics.

This book presents different topics related to innovation, complexity, uncertainty, modeling and simulation, fuzzy logic, decision-making, aggregation operators, business and economic applications, among others.

This book addresses collective bargaining in an intertemporal monetary macroeconomy of the aggregate supply-aggregate demand (AS-AD) type with overlapping generations of consumers and with a public sector.

This book offers a pluralistic vision of the way economists have dealt with the question of power in society over the last two centuries.

This book provides an intimate history of Nobel Laureate Vernon Smith's early life, combining elements of biography, history, economics and philosophy to show how crucial incidents early in his life provided the necessary framework for his research into experimental economics.

This book depicts the role of both formal and informal institutions in achieving long-term economic efficiency and development.

This book explores how corruption is now widely recognized as a major "e;disease"e; which threatens not only economic development but also the foundations of societies.

This sequel to A Life of Experimental Economics, Volume I, continues the intimate history of Vernon Smith's personal and professional maturation after a dozen years at Purdue.

This book traces regional income inequality in Spain during the transition from a pre-industrial society to a modern economy, using the Spanish case to shed further light on the challenges that emerging economies are facing today.

How should a free society protect privacy?

Das im heutigen Berufsalltag so wichtige und allgegenwärtige  „treffsichere Umgehen“ mit mathematischen Methoden und Modellen setzt voraus, dass Studierende die relevanten Werkzeuge kennen und verstehen, sie auswählen und anwenden sowie erzielte Ergebnis (auf Plausibilität) prüfen, bewerten und je nach Bedarf auf andere Fragestellungen transferieren bzw.

Das Buch liefert eine moderne und anwendungsorientierte Einführung in ökonometrische Methoden für Studierende der Wirtschaftswissenschaften.

This book surveys Poland's move from being a post-feudal, backward, peripheral country to being a modern, capitalist, European state: from the partition of the commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania to the abolishment of 'second serfdom'; late industrialization to state socialism; post-partition fragmentation to post-Second World War westward dislocation; and from the 'Solidarnosc' movement to accession into the European Union.

This book is a work of contemporary economic history focusing primarily on the US and the UK.

The quality of life experienced by people in the past is one of the most important areas of historical enquiry, and the standard of living of populations is one of the leading measures of the economic performance of nations.

This book discusses processes and procedures in information/data processing and management.

Without economic history, economics runs the risk of being too abstract or parochial, of failing to notice precedents, trends and cycles, of overlooking the long-run and thus misunderstanding 'how we got here'.

This edited collection provides a comprehensive geographic and chronological overview of the decentralisation processes in the successor states of former Yugoslavia and Albania during their transition and EU integration years, from 1990 until 2016.

This book offers a comprehensive assessment of Douglass North's contribution to economics and the social sciences by examining the origins and structure of his New Institutionalist Economic History (NIEH).

China is currently the front-runner on the global crowdfunding market, even though this form of financing originated in the USA.

Hayek claimed that he always made it his rule 'not to be concerned with current politics, but to try to operate on public opinion.

This edited volume discusses the development theory advanced by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in the 1940s, and its transformations through the second half of the twentieth century.

This upper level textbook provides a coherent introduction to the economic implications of individual and population ageing.

Students in various disciplines-from law and government to business and health policy-need to understand several quantitative aspects of finance (such as the capital asset pricing model or financial options) and policy analysis (e.

Dieses Lehrbuch präsentiert in 60 Kapiteln (Vorlesungseinheiten) eine Fülle interessanter  ökonomischer Problemstellungen, die mathematisch ausführlich unterlegt werden.

Über das Phänomen Börse herrscht seit dem Ausbruch der Finanzkrise im Jahr 2008 eine anhaltende gesellschaftspolitische, nicht selten emotional und polemisch geführte Diskussion.

This book presents paths developing countries can pursue in order to reclaim their ability to take action and improve people's living conditions in the long term.

​Dieter Bögenhold beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, wie die Fächer der Soziologie und Ökonomik zueinander positioniert sind.

Zur Analyse des wirtschaftlichen Wandels benötigt man wissenschaftlich fundierte Konzepte, Methoden und Instrumente, die der Verlaufs- und Ergebnisoffenheit von Prozessen in realer Zeit Rechnung tragen.

In diesem Buch wird die Vielgestaltigkeit von Optimierung und Approximation zusammen mit ihrem breiten Umfeld anhand von Aufgaben samt ihren Lösungen und nützlichen Anwendungen zum Ausdruck gebracht.