Economic theory and philosophy

A fully expanded edition of the Nobel Prize-winning economist's classic bookThis collection of essays uses the lens of rational expectations theory to examine how governments anticipate and plan for inflation, and provides insight into the pioneering research for which Thomas Sargent was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in economics.

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

The worldwide rise of sovereign wealth funds is emblematic of the ongoing transformation of nation-state economic prospects.

Throughout the world, the rule against price fixing is competition law's most important and least controversial prohibition.

What Charles Darwin can teach us about building a fairer societyWho was the greater economist-Adam Smith or Charles Darwin?

A Financial Theory of the Business Cycle presents a new approach to business cycle theory based on the net present value.

In the graveyard of economic ideology, dead ideas still stalk the land.

That market forces drive the news is not news.

Why law is critical to innovation and economic growthSustained growth depends on innovation, whether it's cutting-edge software from Silicon Valley, an improved assembly line in Sichuan, or a new export market for Swaziland's leather.

The legitimate and illegitimate use of incentives in society todayIncentives can be found everywhere-in schools, businesses, factories, and government-influencing people's choices about almost everything, from financial decisions and tobacco use to exercise and child rearing.

How beauty leads to better jobs, better wages, and better spousesMost of us know there is a payoff to looking good, and in the quest for beauty we spend countless hours and billions of dollars on personal grooming, cosmetics, and plastic surgery.

The Theory of Taxation and Public Economics presents a unified conceptual framework for analyzing taxation--the first to be systematically developed in several decades.

The concept of general equilibrium, one of the central components of economic theory, explains the behavior of supply, demand, and prices by showing that supply and demand exist in balance through pricing mechanisms.

A groundbreaking study that shows how countries can create innovative, production-based economies for the twenty-first centuryAchieving economic growth is one of today's key challenges.

Most theories of elections assume that voters and political actors are fully rational.

How the science of unselfish behavior can promote law, order, and prosperityContemporary law and public policy often treat human beings as selfish creatures who respond only to punishments and rewards.

From Nobel Prizewinning economist Daron Acemoglu, an incisive introduction to economic growthIntroduction to Modern Economic Growth is a groundbreaking text from one of today's leading economists.

Optimal tax design attempts to resolve a well-known trade-off: namely, that high taxes are bad insofar as they discourage people from working, but good to the degree that, by redistributing wealth, they help insure people against productivity shocks.

Labor Markets and Business Cycles integrates search and matching theory with the neoclassical growth model to better understand labor market outcomes.

An authoritative look at the microeconomics of entrepreneurshipEntrepreneurs are widely recognized for the vital contributions they make to economic growth and general welfare, yet until fairly recently entrepreneurship was not considered worthy of serious economic study.

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

Around the globe, economists affect markets by saying what markets are doing, what they should do, and what they will do.

The #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller Required reading.

A new, evolutionary explanation of markets and investor behaviorHalf of all Americans have money in the stock market, yet economists can't agree on whether investors and markets are rational and efficient, as modern financial theory assumes, or irrational and inefficient, as behavioral economists believe.

This book presents a smooth and unified transitional framework from generalised fractional programming, with a finite number of variables and a finite number of constraints, to semi-infinite fractional programming, where a number of variables are finite but with infinite constraints.

This is the first book published in English on the new international value theory, presented by Yoshinori Shiozawa in 2007.

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Sea turtle populations around the world are endangered, and in recent years tourism has been a critical element in worldwide efforts to save them.

The fourth volume in the Harte Research Institute's landmark scientific series on the Gulf of Mexico provides a comprehensive study of ecosystem-based management, analyzing key coastal ecosystems in eleven Gulf Coast states from Florida to Quintana Roo and presenting case studies in which this integrated approach was tested in both the US and in Mexico.

This book brings these theories together under one methodological roof, where the choices made by economic agents depend on their varying perceptions of the economic constraints they face, combining new classical principles, under which the economy operates at full employment, with theories that allow for extended periods of underemployment brought about by mixed signals from workers and employers.

Too often, individuals who have been called to practice their gifts and talents in the field of business and professional life sense that to serve God they ought to be doing something more directly involved with the church.

Psalm 15 begins with two related questions: "e;LORD, who may dwell in your sanctuary?

The painful performance of the American economy in the past decade is not a function of bad luck.

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The majority of economists would admit thatmoney is powerful and that changes in moneywill impact the economy.

Undoubtedly, what happens to the economy affects the lives of the citizens of a country, and often the lives of people in other countries around the globe.

Permanent Revolution concisely describes the development and workings of capitalism and its influence on the broader society.

This book examines how a society that is trapped in stagnation might initiate and sustain economic and political development.

In Collective Action and Exchange: A Game-Theoretic Approach to Contemporary Political Economy, William D.

Abul A'la Mawdudi laid down the foundations of modern Islamic economics.

En 1917 la Revolución Rusa intentó la búsqueda de la igualdad implosionando luego el sistema conformado por grandes burocracias y la falta de incentivo en el desarrollo personal.

This book studies the methodological revolution that has resulted in economists' mathematical market models being exported across the social sciences.

Von der renommierten Philosophin und Ökonomin Ingrid Robeyns: Ein revolutionäres Konzept zur Begrenzung exzessiven Reichtums, das eine gerechtere Welt für alle schaffen würde.

Bernard Maris was killed in Paris on January 7, 2015, during the terrorist attack against the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.

This book illustrates effective decision-making in complex socio-economic systems utilising system dynamics and agent-based simulation modelling approaches.

The Soviet Economy on the Brink of Reform (1988) is a collection of essays in honour of Alec Nove and covers such topics as Leon Trotsky, Navrozov, Soviet Investment criteria, Soviet Agricultural, and economic politics under Andropov and Chernenko.

Karl Marx's monumental work, 'Capital,' in its complete 3 volume edition, revolutionized the field of political economy and continues to shape discussions on capitalism and socialism.