Economic theory and philosophy

Rarely in the short history of liberal-democratic government has a primer on basic liberal-democratic values and institutions been more needed than now.

This book, originally published in 1981, is a major reassessment of the strengths and weaknesses of incomes policies.

Underlying current controversies about environmental regulation are shared concerns, divided interests and different ways of thinking about the earth and our proper relationship to it.

By all accounts, the case of Poland and its segue to market economy and democracy is a success story: 30 years of uninterrupted growth and development, infrastructure expansion, and modernization of the economy and society.

At the very heart of the conception of the present volume lies the conviction that social economics is a highly pluralistic discipline, inspired and enriched by several often radically different world views, Schumpeterian visions, and at times even quite antagonistic social doctrines.

This Routledge Revival sees the reissue of a seminal work by British economist, sociologist and academic John A.

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Drawing on years of research, Gerald Steele delves into the diverse ideas of Henry Simons, a neglected economist whose work in the 1930s on monetary and financial instability is extremely relevant to today's debates about commercial bank credit, the interdependence of fiscal and monetary policy, and financial regulation.

This book is a comprehensive study of Leon Walras''s influence in economics.

The originators of classical political economy-Adam Smith, David Ricardo, James Steuart, and others-created a discourse that explained the logic, the origin, and, in many respects, the essential rightness of capitalism.

For years, North Carolina has been one of the nation's fastest-growing states, bringing tremendous change to the state's people, industries, jobs, places, environment, and government.

This volume offers a comprehensive treatment of the development of Keynes's economic ideas in the General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money , using archival material, the historical record of the economics of Keynes's time and place and the scholarship available on Keynes's biography and philosophy.

This book sets the agenda to turn behavioral economics, which has long been considered a subordinate discipline, into mainstream economics.

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This book approaches economic problems from a systems thinking and feedback perspective.

This book explores the life and work of Nicholas Kaldor, examining the influences that shaped and inspired his writings, and looks in detail at the crucial part he played in twentieth-century economics.

The Political Economy of International Financial Instability (1986) discusses international financial problems as a global issue, concentrating on systemic interactions.

An introduction to mathematical modelling in economics and finance.

This book aims to explore stability in an international financial system using disequilibrium theory.

This book describes and analyses the provincial government's role in municipal and regional planning.

This book has three purposes.

This volume of essays contains 16 papers the author has written over the last 40 years on various aspects of the life and work of John Maynard Keynes and Nicholas Kaldor.

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.

In an era of increasing inequalities, and also of deep anxieties about the consequences of two major economic crises, economists are faced with a major question: can economic growth be achieved without inequalities?

This textbook presents some basic stochastic processes, mainly Markov processes.

The mathematical theory of democracy deals with selection of representatives who make decisions on behalf of the whole society.

Have you ever puzzled over the causes of the 2007-8 financial crisis and wondered how it will affect all our futures?

This volume sheds light on the current state of complex networks and nonlinear dynamics applied to the understanding of economic and social phenomena ranging from geographical economics to macroeconomics and finance, and its purpose is to give readers an overview of several interesting topics for research at an intermediate level.

As a new type of technique, simplicial methods have yielded extremely important contributions toward solutions of a system of nonlinear equations.

Leading international scholars challenge neoliberalism on its assumptions, way of reasoning and empirical evidence.

In response to the global crises in recent decades, many countries - both developed and developing economies - have resorted to populist forms of economic policy instead of undertaking meaningful institutional change.

Rpresentative agent models have become a predominant means of studying the macroeconomy in modern economics without there being much discussion in the literature about their propriety or usefulness.

The Danish Economy in the Twentieth Century (1987) surveys the Danish economy, examining the effects of the rapid industrialisation which occurred in the country in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Markets are usually discussed in abstract terms, as an economic organizing principle, a generalized alternative to government planning, or even as powerful actors in their own right, able to shape local and national economic destinies.

Max Weber (1864-1920) has long been considered a founding figure of sociology.

This book posits that a sustainable future is possible without abandoning Capitalism.

Comprehensive and authoritative, this book, written by a recognized authority on the subject explores the contributions to modern economics by John Maynard Keynes and addresses neglected, yet crucial aspects of the genesis of Keynesian economics.

This book, the second of two volumes, is inspired by the famous philosopher of India, Kautilya, author of the first book on economics in the world, Arthashashtra.

Das vorliegende Buch vermittelt alle wesentlichen, in den wirtschafts- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Studienrichtungen benötigten mathematischen Kenntnisse auf dem Gebiet der Linearen Algebra, Analysis und Optimierung.