Economic theory and philosophy

This textbook teaches some of the basic econometric methods and the underlying assumptions behind them.

Acclaimed by Joseph Schumpeter as 'The greatest economist the United States has ever produced', this book examines the life and work of American economist and statistician Irving Fisher (1867-1947).

Der Klimawandel gefährdet die Existenzgrundlage zukünftiger Generationen.

This book examines the Eurozone crisis in light of theoretical and empirical evidence.

Fighting crime breeds emotional responses which often lead to counter-productive government policy.

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An accessible discussion examining computationally-intensive techniques and bootstrap methods, providing ways to improve the finite-sample performance of well-known asymptotic tests for regression models.

This book links game theory to business ethics by applying the classic Four Temperaments approach to a wide range of moral emotions, and offers academics and students of game theory a perspective that covers social preferences in a nontraditional way.

In 1958 the Canadian Political Science Association established a committee to look into ways and means of improving statistical research in the social sciences in Canada.

Why has capitalism produced economic growth that so vastly dwarfs the growth record of other economic systems, past and present?

This book interprets the typical Chinese concepts of fengjian (feudalism) and jingji (economy) by reviewing the mistranslation and mismatching of concepts from ancient to modern times and from a Western language to Chinese and exploring Chinese and Western acculturation, which is in line with Mr.

The 1930s, characterised by repercussions from World War I and the Great Depression, was an era of populism, nationalism, protectionism, government intervention and attempts to create planned economies.

The four sections of the book deal in succession with Marshall's key ideas on the subject, the wider context of his thought in which they are to be read, their later development by some of his pupils, and their revival in contemporary economics.

The fact that I have the opportunity to present a second edition of this monograph is an indicator for the growing size of the community concerned with agent-based computational economics.

In the late sixteenth through seventeenth centuries, England simultaneously developed a national market and a national literary culture.

Drawing on a wide range of Hegel's writings, this book analyses the Hegelian position on ethical action.

The population base in both the United States and Japan is growing older and, as those populations age, they provoke heretofore unexamined economic consequences.

Focusing on health care, education, and elderly care, Privatizing Welfare Services draws on extensive research on the consequences of introducing market-based mechanisms to deliver welfare services.

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

This book, first published in 1985, investigates the enactment of the federal income tax as a case study of an important Progressive Era reform.

This book brings together key players in the current debate on positive and normative science and philosophy and value judgements in economics.

In this book interrelated factor demand models are surveyed.

The global financial crisis has drawn attention to the importance of understanding historical ideas and learning lessons from the past.

First published in 1981, Capitalism in the UK clearly states the Marxist position arguing that capitalism dominates the world economy, and that the world's trade and multinational enterprises favour the capitalist system.

How can the successful development of some former Third World countries be explained, while other developing countries have remained stagnant or worse, have deteriorated into failed states?

The same is true of applications of game theory to history, philosophy religion, and the other humanities.

This book assesses the main interrelationships between economic growth processes, life cycle sustainability assessment approaches, and new technologies in the framework of digital transition.

This book offers a rigorous, detailed, and balanced analysis of the various contributions to the Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) debate, incorporating both the arguments of proponents and those who point to its limitations and obstacles.

Knowledge about the magnitude of the cost of capital invested in an asset and its determinants is essential for the analysis of corporate investment decisions and for assessing profitability.

In recent years, problems such as environmental and economic crises and pandemics caused by new viruses have been occurring on a global scale.

An investigation into the possibility of creating a human-centered, value-oriented society based on humanistic principles.

Revealing the human side of economic lifeOver the past three decades, economic sociology has been revealing how culture shapes economic life even while economic facts affect social relationships.

The Communist Economic Challenge (1965) examines the substantial industrial development in the Soviet Union, and its European satellites, and China, looking at Khrushchev's boast that by 1970 the USSR's industrial output would surpass that of the USA.

This book investigates the application of promising machine learning techniques to address two problems: (i) how to find profitable pairs while constraining the search space and (ii) how to avoid long decline periods due to prolonged divergent pairs.

This book concentrates upon how economic rationalities have been embedded into particular historical practices, cultures, and moral systems.

This compendium contains and explains essential statistical formulas within an economic context.

War often comes down to one thing: money.

This book presents a concise introduction to the epistemology and methodology of the Austrian School of economics as defended by Ludwig von Mises.

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.