Economic theory and philosophy

This book seeks to clarify the positive and negative lessons in the experiences of late development under neoliberal globalization.

The book discusses the theories, theorists, and contexts from which behavioral economics arose and shows how this new field in economics subsequently developed.

Agent-based modeling and social simulation have emerged as an interdisciplinary area of social science that includes computational economics, organizational science, social dynamics, and complex systems.

This handbook is a milestone in the field of historical economics and econometric history through its emphasis on the concrete contribution of cliometrics to our knowledge in economics and history.

This book sets out the foundations of post-Keynesian price theory.

This book asks, how would a stable, prosperous economy of the future look if one started with a blank sheet of paper?

It is becoming increasingly clear that a new economics is required for investigating modern dynamic economies and the coming social world.

Growth, Employment, Inequality, and the Environment deals with the fundamental economic problems of our time: employment, inequality, the environment, and quality of life.

A comprehensive introduction to the statistical and econometric methods for analyzing high-frequency financial dataHigh-frequency trading is an algorithm-based computerized trading practice that allows firms to trade stocks in milliseconds.

This open-minded, multidisciplinary approach challenges existing world views on the endogenous and exogenous forces that drive markets and economies.

Existing literature looks at national innovation systems from the perspective of either "e;inside the black box"e; or "e;outside the black box"e;.

Die Veränderung des Weltklimas infolge des anthropogen verstärkten Treibhauseffekts und die prognostizierten Finanzierungsnöte der Pensionsversicherungen geben Anlaß zu großer Sorge.

Ausgehend von der philosophischen Hermeneutik Gadamers und dessen Kerngedanken einer universalen natürlichen Verstehensfähigkeit des Menschen erörtert Jochen J.

The 38 selections in the volume include complete texts of all of Veblen's major articles and book reviews from 1882 to 1914, plus key chapters from his books The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), The Theory of Business Enterprise (1904) and The Instinct of Workmanship (1914).

This collection brings together leading economists from around the world to explore key issues in economic analysis and the history of economic thought.

This book explores implications of the modern view of central banks rising from the proposition that words have no meaning beyond their use in a particular context and setting.

The contributions to this edited collection, first published in 1983, are based on two underlying themes.

"e;The Social Science of Hayek's 'The Sensory Order'"e; systematically examines the relevance and significance of Hayek's cognitive psychology for economics and social science, and is the only publication of its kind to do so.

This book introduces modern series methods with a focus on applications in econometrics and statistics.

This volume is about economists, economics, and issues of concern to Indian society.

In this new conference volume from the National Academy of Social Insurance, experts offer differing views on what changes will, and must, occur to ensure the continuing viability of Social Security, retirement benefits, unemployment insurance, Medicare, and health security programs.

In this accessible book, Gavin Kennedy takes a fresh look at Adam Smith's moral philosophy and its links to his political economy and his lectures on Jurisprudence.

What's wrong with markets in everything?

This book provides an introduction to the relationship between economics and ethics, explaining why ethics enters economics, how ethics affects individual economic behaviour and the interactions of individuals, and how ethics is important in evaluating the performance of economies and of economic policies.

This publication links information asymmetries anddecision processes of financial investors through quantitative models.

Since the beginning of the 1980's, a lot of news approaches of biomimetic inspiration have been defined and developed for imitating the brain behavior, for modeling non linear phenomenon, for providing new hardware architectures, for solving hard problems.

The past decade has seen many leading economies, especially the US, undergo profound structural transformations.

The world of economics and management is being reshaped in more ways than one including rapid advancements in technology and business practices.

In this updated and expanded edition, the author explores the broad features of Hayek's economic philosophy, shows the interrelationship between the liberal philosophy and economic advance, examines Hayek's approach to the problems of a money economy, and explains Hayek's aversion to all forms of centralized economic planning.

Bifurcation theory has made a very fast upswing in the last fifteen years.

Much ink has been spilled in attempts to prove that humans are only animals and are, like other species, only aggressive.

What is the correct concept behind measures of inflation?

This book provides a new way of understanding modern money and markets by stressing their self-fulfilling/self-destructive properties as institutions from evolutionary perspectives.

The initial purposes of this book were to update and extend the discussion and the results presented ill our previous book, The Labor Market and Business Cycle Theories.

Across the social sciences and even in philosophy, trust is most often characterized in terms of expectations and probabilities.

This book clarifies the quantitative relationship between time, money, and labor productivity from the perspective of Marxian labor theory of value.

Applying the principles of Optimal Control Theory to the problem of regional allocation of investment can be a useful tool for demonstrating how the trade-off between regional equity and overall efficiency can be overcome.

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A forceful critique of the social science that has ruled-and damaged-the modern world.

Post-Keynesian Economic Theory explores and develops several areas of post- Keynesian economics most in need of additional fundamental research, including: a monetary theory of production; post-Keynesian price theory; international economics; labor economics; financing aggregate demands; and the liquidity preference theory of interest.

This edited volume offers a systematic exploration of the relations between Western and Eastern scientists during the Cold War from the Eastern European perspective using the example of economic history.

It is well-known that the Swedish experiment in practical economic control was inspired by a simultaneous development of economic thought in Sweden.

In recent years, there have been a number of new developments in what came to be known as the "e;Capital Theory Debates"e;.

This textbook offers a practical and engaging introduction to spatial econometric modelling, detailing the key models, methodologies and tools required to successfully apply a spatial approach.

The history of Indian economic thought provides rich insights into both economic issues and the workings of the Indian mind.