Economic theory and philosophy Books

Inflation plays a central role in macroeconomic and financial policy regulation, and its dynamic formation has gradually become a popular research topic in this field. This book comprehensively studies the dynamic mechanism of inflation in China from the...

This book applies finance to the field of capital theory. While financial economics is a well-established field of study, the specific application of finance to capital theory remains unexplored. It is the first book to comprehensively study this...

This edited volume seeks to provide a critical and technical look at international political economy indices (PEIs). It examines measurement issues, relates PEIs to economic theory, and suggests better measures than those currently used.

The dynamics of industry growth, technology and globalization have a dramatic impact on the current economic growth of nations, significantly changing the market structure and world trade, and challenging the competitive equilibrium and their guiding...

This book examines the main areas of interest in Marxian economics, paying particular attention to class conflict, analytical Marxism and game theory. Very few books can claim to cover the areas that this book does with such clarity, academic rigour and...

In recent years we have seen the predictions of our forebears that leisure time would increase as the years pass utterly confounded. It is a fact of life that in major cities across the world, transport systems are full to bursting with people on their...

This book presents the huge variety of current contributions of game theory to economics. The impressive contributions fall broadly into two categories. Some lay out in a jargon free manner a particular branch of the theory, the evolution of one of its...

Dozens of judicial opinions have held that shareholders own corporations, that directors are agents of shareholders, and even that directors are trustees of shareholders' property. Yet, until now, it has never been proven. These doctrines rest on...

In order to understand the resilience of capitalism as a mode of production, social organization, and an intellectual system, it is necessary to explore its intellectual development and underlying structure.　 A Historical Political Economy of Capitalism...

Samuel Pufendorf's work on natural law and political economy was extensive and has been cited by several important figures in the history of economic thought. Yet his name is rarely mentioned in textbooks on the history of economic thought, the history...

Introduction: Motivation, Methodology and Overview Motivation: Approaching the General Theory Historically Methodology: The Marshallian Structure of the General Theory Overview PART 1: KEYNES, CAMBRIDGE AND UNEMPLOYMENT Introduction: Keynes, the General...

Preface - Foreword - Maps: Prussia and North America - PART 1: THE PROBLEMATIC - Origins, Context and Method - The Agrarian Question, Diversity of Agrarian Transition and the Two Paths: 'Capitalism from Above' and 'Capitalism from Below' - PART 2: THE...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

Eichner's classic A Guide to Post-Keynesian Economics (1978) is still seen as the definitive staging post for those wishing to familiarise themselves with the Post-Keynesian School. This book brings the story up-to-date.Of all the subgroups within...

This handbook examines the institutional bases of economies, and the different ways in which economic activity can function, be organized and governed. It assesses the place of comparative economic studies within economics, offering future perspectives...

Preface Acknowledgements 50 Years a Keynesian Keynes Now Intellectual Biographies Tributes Review Articles Survey General Essays Index

The International Economic Association Acknowledgements List of Contributors List of Abbreviations and Acronyms Introduction: Advances and Challenges in Macroeconomics; D.Drèze PART I: THE GENERAL FRAMEWORK From Neoclassical Growth Theory to New...

Preface Introduction Christianism, Nationalism, Economism Economism and the Challenge of Earthism The Marketization of Society The Bretton Woods Institutions The McNamara Years Structural Adjustment A Coherent Opposition The Development Paradigm of the...

'A convincing and comprehensive account of the success and ultimate failure of Keynesianism in Australia ... Essential reading, not only for other doughty fighters but for skeptics and critics as well' - G.C. Harcourt

Preface and Acknowledgements - Introduction - A Conceptual Framework - A Simple Macro Production Model - The Classical Theory and Its Critique - Technical Change and the Profit Rate - The Capitalist Determination of Technical Change - The Consistent Path...

Preface List of Tables and Figures Introduction The Necessity of Interpersonal Cardinal Utility Welfarism Utility, Informed Preference, or Happiness Utilitarianism A Dollar is a Dollar: Solution to the Paradox of Interpersonal Cardinal Utility Economics...

Preface - The Nature of the Problem - Perfect Competition - Semi-perfect Competition - Fixprice Competition - Optimality - The Role of the Entrepreneur - The Supply of Entrepreneurship - Some Wider Issues - Notes - Index

Notes on the Contributors Preface The Potentials and Limits of Economic Analysis: The Contributions of Kenneth J. Arrow; G.R.Feiwel PART I: THE MAKERS OF MODERN GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM THEORY Oral History I: An Interview; Kenneth J.Arrow Oral History II:...

Now, for the first time, there is a comprehensive, eminently readable book designed to focus thinking in the area of contract law. This book bridges the gap between law and economics by confronting normative values that economists too often deem the...

The ongoing process of revising and rethinking the foundations of economic theory leads to great complexities and contradictions at the heart of economics. 'Economics of innovation' provides a fertile challenge to standard economics, and one that can...

Economics can be pretty boring. Drier than Death Valley, the discipline is obsessed with mathematics and compounds this by arrogantly assuming its techniques can be brought to bear on the other social sciences. It wasn't going to be long, therefore,...

Vilfredo Pareto was one of the great systems theorists of the twentieth century, embracing economics, psychology, sociology and politics. In this important work, Michael McLure takes as his subject of study the rapport between Pareto's economic and...

The concept of the individual and his/her motivations is a bedrock of philosophy. All strands of thought at heart come down to a particular theory of the individual. Economics, though, is guilty of taking this hugely important concept without questioning...

A new approach to science has recently developed. It is called the complexity approach. A number of researchers, such as Brian Arthur and Buz Brock, have used this approach to consider issues in economics. This volume considers the complexity approach to...

Preface - Acknowledgements - Public Finance in A Changing World: Introduction and Summary; P.B.Sorensen - PART 1: ALTERNATIVE PERCEPTIONS OF GOVERNMENT - The Role of the State in Fiscal Theory; R.A.Musgrave - Government Role and the Efficiency of...

Acknowledgements - Introduction - Efficiency, Equality and the Ownership of Property - Can We Learn a 'Third Way' From the Agathotopians? - Agathotopia: The Economics of Partnership - The Building of a New Europe: National Diversity versus Continental...

Frontispiece - Preface - Notes on the Contributors - Don Patinkin's Contribution to Economics in Israel; H.Barkai - Money, Interest, and Prices; S.Fischer - What is Macroeconomics?; L.R.Klein - Price Flexibility and the Stability of Full-employment...

Preface - Introduction - PART 1 THE ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK - The Basic Accounting Framework - Different Types of Concept - The Production Boundary - The United Kingdom Experience (1) - PART 2 PRICE AND VOLUME DEVELOPMENTS - Index Numbers of Price and...

This volume consists of six essays that develop and/or apply "rational expectations equilibrium inventory models" to study the time series behavior of production, sales, prices, and inventories at the industry level. By...

In this book the foundations and applicability of the Generalized Fechner-Thurstone Utility Function are laid out. It is shown how by removing the constraint of fixed preferences in the neoclassical consumer theory, utility...

As witness to one of the world's great crises in recent times, academics and students, business people, national and international government analysts, policy makers and political leaders worldwide have been pre-occupied by an effort to adequately...

Preface Introduction The Ghosts I Called I Cant' Get Rid Of Now: The Keynes-Tinbergen-Friedman-Phillips Critique of Keynesian Macroeconometrics The Chicago Counter-Revolution and the Sociology of Economic Knowledge The Rise of the Natural-Rate of...