Economic theory and philosophy

The essays in this book, originally published in 1984, examine many problems within the structure of industry including wage policies, financial incentives and other economic policies.

This book describes a system of mathematical models and methods that can be used to analyze real economic and managerial decisions and to improve their effectiveness.

Sometime in your business life you've looked up from the task or person in front of you, paused before your head explodes, and thought to yourself, "e;There's got to be a better way!

This accessible workbook has been developed to provide readers with a solid grounding in economic principles.

This book was the first in the exciting field of social learning.

What motives underlie the ways humans interact socially?

This book draws on the work of one of the sharpest minds of the 20th century, Piero Sraffa.

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

US President Barack Obama has called economic inequality the “defining issue of our time.

Certain key economic decisions taken by organizations and indeed countries are often not made by economists but by businessmen, trade unionists, politicians and policy-makers.

When we talk about clusters, it's the fabulous destiny of Silicon Valley that first comes to mind - the place where entrepreneurs and policymakers alike flock.

This book, first published in 1934, provides a discussion of the important facts and underlying principles of the financial problems that the American people were facing after the Great Depression.

Der Frankfurter Soziologe Dieter Prokop (Goethe-Universität) bietet einen Blick auf die 'geistigen' Aspekte des Gelds im Zeitalter der betrügerischen Geldgeschäfte, des leichtfertigen Schuldenmachens und des Bruchs der europäischen Verträge.

This book, a third edition, has been significantly expanded and updated.

Capital theory is a cornerstone of modern economics.

Some economic phenomena are predictable and controllable, and some are impos- sible to foresee.

Research on the spatial aspects of economic activity has flourished over the past decade due to the emergence of new theory, new data, and an intense interest on the part of policymakers, especially in Europe but increasingly in North America and elsewhere as well.

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) seizes all aspects of human life, there is a fundamental shift in the way in which humans are thinking of and doing things.

It is widely believed that economic development in much of the world is not happening quickly enough.

Mit Hilfe neuer ökonometrischer Ansätze zeigt die Arbeit die Möglichkeit und Grenzen der Erklärung und der Prognose von Wechselkursänderungen.

This 2000 text applies modern advances in game theory to the analysis of competition policy.

Leading experts on Kalecki have contributed special essays on what economists in the 21st century have to learn from the theories of Kalecki.

Offers a framework for understanding physiocratic theory and the development of modern economics.

Despite the restrictions on their work and actions, the economists of the Soviet period produced a great deal of bold and important work.

A systematic comparison of the three major economic theories, showing how they differ and why these differences matter in shaping economic theory and practice.

Over the last three decades, inflation targeting (IT) has become the most popular monetary policy framework among larger economies.

Donald Trump's 2016 victory shocked the world, but his appeals to the economic discontent of the white working class should not be so surprising, as stagnant wages for the many have been matched with skyrocketing incomes for the few.

The essays in this edited collection, first published in 1986, focus on important debates surrounding the central Marxian problem of the transformation of values into prices.

Foundations of Dynamic Economic Analysis presents an introductory but thorough exposition of optimal control theory.

This book consists of a dialogue between two interlocutors, Pablo and a student, who discuss a great range of issues in social philosophy and political theory, and in particular, the emergence, working properties and economic effects of institutions.

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

Howard Sherman and William M.

Alongside other types of mass atrocities, genocide has received extensive scholarly, policy, and practitioner attention.

An updated version of the classic economics textbook, revised to include current developments in the field.

Climate scientists have determined that we must act now to prevent an irreversible and catastrophic climatic tipping point, beyond which neither our own nor many other species can be assumed likely to survive.

Joseph Halevi, G.

In The Super-Rich , Stephen Haseler describes the dangerous growing tensions caused throughout the West by the triumphant new global capitalism.

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

A number of different problems of interest to the operational researcher and the mathematical economist - for example, certain problems of optimization on graphs and networks, of machine-scheduling, of convex analysis and of approx- imation theory - can be formulated in a convenient way using the algebraic structure (R,$,@) where we may think of R as the (extended) real-number system with the binary combining operations x$y, x(R)y defined to be max(x,y),(x+y) respectively.

This unique book adopts a problem approach to study the Internet economy, which consists in assessing its contradiction to classic economy, analyzing it, and describing how the Internet economy is developing in modern Russia.