Economic theory and philosophy

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

On 9 August 1974, Richard Nixon resigned to avoid impeachment; on 29 April 1975, the United States scuttled from their Embassy in Saigon - optics that were interpreted as defeats for the 'International Right'.

This book searches for the origins of modern thinking in one of the best-known stories of our cultural heritage.

Combining the fields of international trade theory, economic development, and economic growth, this text provides an advanced exposition suitable for graduate students as well as researchers at all levels.

This book discusses and summarizes the revived interest in reality issues (ontology) within accounting, economics, and the information sciences, with a view to informing scholars from these different disciplines about each other's endeavours in ontological research.

A lot of economic problems can be formulated as constrained optimizations and equilibration of their solutions.

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.

Neoliberalism is dead.

The 1986 article by Sanford J.

This book covers the contemporary politics and economic development of the four countries of North Africa - Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya.

Economics and fiction often pursue parallel objectives.

Using a heterodox perspective, this book discusses the real possibilities of Argentina, Brazil and Mexico ever achieving economic development through industrialization.

There is an entrenched relationship between the consulting industry and the way business and government are managed today which must change.

Whilst some of Hayek's contributions to economics are purely analytical, others are inspired by a broader vision that could be characterized as political economy.

This book explores the application of complex variables to econometric modeling.

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

The Instituts Internationaux de Physique et de Chimie fondis par E.

This book presents a theoretical investigation of the formation of regional free trade agreements (FTAs), the behavior of global enterprises, and government trade policies in various game forms including multi-stage games, repeated games, and timing games.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection.

Economic Integration in East and West (1976) explores the logic of economic integration to form free trade areas and common markets, and applies the findings to the European Economic Community and Comecon, and to third countries and the world economic order in general.

Business Cycles in Economic Thought underlines how, over the time span of two centuries, economic thought interacted with cycles in a continuous renewal of theories and rethinking of policies, whilst economic actions embedded themselves into past economic thought.

This book asks the question, how would economics look today and into the future if one started with a blank sheet of paper?

This is a ground-breaking book about the foundations of institutional economics.

This book is devoted to the study of a class of optimal control problems arising in mathematical economics, related to the Robinson-Solow-Srinivasan (RSS) model.

The problems of interrelation between human economics and natural environment include scientific, technical, economic, demographic, social, political and other aspects that are studied by scientists of many specialities.

This book compares and contrasts the motivations, morality, and effectiveness of space exploration when pursued by private entrepreneurs as opposed to government.

Cascades of new technologies and innovations are entering our lives so fast that it is difficult for us to adapt to one innovation before the next becomes embedded into our everyday lives.

Today, most money is credit money, created by commercial banks.

The construction industry is a microcosm of the economy as a whole, and as such the economics of the sector contains many of the aspects of the economy in general, albeit with fascinating and unique features.

In this timely book, Walter E.

The story of the economic development of the Soviet Union provided the first case in history of the establishment of a socialist economy and was therefore of great interest for economists and economic historians of the twentieth century.

In The Financiers and the Nation (1934) Mr.

This book examines the economic, social and political thought of two highly influential cross-disciplinary contributors to the debate in the United Kingdom about welfare economics, social welfare, nationalisation and public policy.

This is a book on general equilibrium in which firms are allowed to exhibit increasing returns to scale (more precisely, in which the convexity of production sets is not assumed).

The views of Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) on population, first published in his Essay on the Principle of Population, 1798, continue to be hotly debated, either acclaimed or opposed, as do his views on macroeconomics.

This book is devoted to analyzing contemporary capitalism both in Japan and in the world economy by using the theoretical framework of the French regulation theory and by revisiting the theory of civil society in postwar Japan.

'All of us need help in understanding Keynes's brilliant, but often opaque, contributions to theory and policy.

Galbraith's arguments are discussed by a group of economists in regards to current controversies and problems.

This 2005 book traces the history of economic thought from its prehistory to the present day.

This book, first published in 1996, introduces students to optimization theory and its use in economics and allied disciplines.