Economic theory and philosophy

With global demand for energy poised to increase by more than half in the next three decades, the supply of safe, reliable, and reasonably priced gas and oil will continue to be of fundamental importance to modern economies.

This collection of papers proposes to trace the professional and personal fortunes of Maffeo Pantaleoni (1857-1924), an eminent and controversial Italian economist from the liberalist culture which in the early twentieth century perceived the shortcomings and dangers of the nascent monopolist concentrations.

Christoph Michael Hindermann uses a statistical approach to analyze the impact of economic freedom on state legitimacy.

This volume features 19 original chapters on Adam Smith's conception of modernity.

This volume offers an exciting new reading of John Ruskin's economic and social criticism, based on recent research into rhetoric in economics.

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This collection brings together significant new contributions to the Sraffa--based theories of production and distribution, from post-Keynesian arguments concerning monetary and macro economics to the history of thought and methodology.

This stimulating collection of essays by distinguished British, American, Australian and German scholars, originally published in 1985, offers a picture of the upsurge of New Unionism and the growth of old unions, and looks at the severe setbacks which occurred in the labour movements of Britain and Germany between the 1880s and the First World War.

This book provides a methodology for the analysis of oligopolistic markets from an equilibrium viewpoint, considering competition within and between groups of firms.

Originally published in 1994 and the recipient of the Stonier Library Award, this volume evaluates an alternative approach - the sequential filter- to managing the uncertainty inherent in the future course of the interest rate cycle.

In the last decade, behavioral economics, borrowing from psychology and sociology to explain decisions inconsistent with traditional economics, has revolutionized the way economists view the world.

The studies collected in this volume embody the results of research conducted in the mid 1950s into various theoretical problems in international economics.

This book is the result of a multi-year research project led and sponsored by the University of Chieti-Pescara, National Chengchi University, University of Salamanca, and Osaka University.

When the Act of Union was passed in 1707, Scottish parliament was dissolved and the nation's capital became London.

This book, originally published in 1951, is a theoretical study inspired by some central economic problems which have appeared during and after the Second World War in many countries, including Scandinavia.

This textbook offers a comprehensive introduction to panel data econometrics, an area that has enjoyed considerable growth over the last two decades.

This book renders an uncompromising verdict on the 'scourge' of our millennium: modernism, itself the artifact of certain late Eurocentric propensities.

This volume appears at a time when there is tremendous interest in direct investment of one country in the industry of another.

A penetrating reassessment of Marxist thought and its relevance today, by a world-renowned historian of Marxism "We need to take account of Marx today," argues Eric Hobsbawm in this persuasive and highly readable book.

This book offers a vision of economics in which there is no place for universal laws of nature, and even for laws of a more probabilistic character.

Introducing his book "e;The Theory of UnemPloyment Reconsidered"e;, Professor Malinvaud expressed several years ago his hope "e;to convey [his] strong belief that the reconsideration is a major step in the development of our science"e;.

Keynes always intended to write 'footnotes' to his masterwork The General Theory, which would take account of the criticisms made of it and allow him to develop and refine his ideas further.

The four volumes of Game Equilibrium Models present applications of non-cooperative game theory.

Vor hundert Jahren, 1918, erschien im Wiener Traditionsverlag Wilhelm Braumüller der erste Band des epochalen Werkes von Oswald Spengler: Der Untergang des Abendlandes.

An accessible account of the role of the modern university in the creation of economics During the late nineteenth century concerns about international commercial rivalry were often expressed in terms of national provision for training and education, and the role of universities in such provision.

The apparent success of a 'new' variant of social democracy has created considerable interest in the Third Way.

This book examines incentives at work to see how and how well coordination is achieved by motivating individual decision makers.

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Elements of a Nonlinear Theory of Economic Dynamics provides both a framework and a survey of its needs.

First published in 1921, this book is intended to provide a comprehensive overview of economics to beginners, with only the more intricate and controversial subjects - such as economic rent - being omitted for the sake of clarity.

As we experience yet another deep economic recession, people throughout the world are feeling the symptoms of capitalist crisis, from unemployment to bankruptcy to deficits to cutbacks and so on.

In this book, the authors illustrate how social networks can play a very significant role in the technological catch up process in moderate innovative countries.

This book looks at conceptions of the individual in recent new approaches in economics.

First published in 1987, Professor O'Sullivan's work provides an in depth philosophical examination of the foundations of method in Economics and other human sciences.

This book offers the first systematic exposition and critique of the major approaches to periodizing capitalism, bringing to bear both deep rooted theoretical questions and meticulous empirical analysis to grapple with the seismic economic changes capitalism has experienced over the past 150 years.

The present monograph analyses some topics in the pure theory of international trade.

Understanding how we take economic decisions and how we depart from rational choice theory has become increasingly important to understanding the workings of the economy at all levels.

Now in its 8th edition, Anatomy of the New Testament is one of the most trust-worthy and enduring introductory textbooks of its kind.

A reconstruction of the creation of game theory in the twentieth century by John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern.

International economic theories emerged within particular social, economic and political frameworks and were developed as solutions to the problems of contemporary economics.

The main theme of this book is that, within contemporary capitalist societies a materialist outlook informed by science has triumphed creating the lack of a spiritual dimension to give meaning and purpose to the activities that are necessary for a capitalist society to function effectively.

The financial crisis and the 'great recession' have generated the need for new thinking in economics and for new economic policies to secure sustainable and equitable economic development.

While dating from post-Classical economists such as Thorstein Veblen and Joseph Schumpeter, the inception of the modern field of evolutionary economics is usually dated to the early 1980s.