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Cambridge University Press Public Choice Analysis in Historical Perspective
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Cambridge University Press Foundations of Dynamic Economic Analysis Optimal Control Theory and Applications
Book SynopsisFoundations of Dynamic Economic Analysis presents a modern and thorough exposition of the fundamental mathematical formalism used to study optimal control theory, i.e., continuous time dynamic economic processes, and to interpret dynamic economic behavior. The style of presentation, with its continual emphasis on the economic interpretation of mathematics and models, distinguishes it from several other excellent texts on the subject. This approach is aided dramatically by introducing the dynamic envelope theorem and the method of comparative dynamics early in the exposition. Accordingly, motivated and economically revealing proofs of the transversality conditions come about by use of the dynamic envelope theorem. Furthermore, such sequencing of the material naturally leads to the development of the primal-dual method of comparative dynamics and dynamic duality theory, two modern approaches used to tease out the empirical content of optimal control models. The stylistic approach ultimatTrade Review"Michael Caputo's Foundations of Dynamic Economic Analysis presents a well-written, complete, up to date exposition of the theory and techniques of dynamic optimization applied to a variety of economics problems. Of special interest is the presentation of Caputo's generalization of Silberberg's primal-dual approach to comparative statics and comparative dynamics." -Morton Kamien, Northwestern UniversityTable of Contents1. Essential elements of continuous time dynamic optimization; 2. Necessary conditions for a simplified control problem; 3. Concavity and sufficiency in optimal control problems; 4. The maximum principle and economic interpretations; 5. Linear optimal control problems; 6. Necessary and sufficient conditions for a general class of control problems; 7. Necessary and sufficient conditions for isoperimetric problems; 8. Economic characterization of reciprocal isoperimetric problems; 9. The dynamic envelope theorem and economic interpretations; 10. The dynamic envelope theorem and transversality conditions; 11. Comparative dynamics via envelope methods; 12. Discounting, current values, and time consistency; 13. Local stability and phase portraits of autonomous differential equations; 14. Necessary and sufficient conditions for infinite horizon control problems; 15. The neoclassical optimal economic growth model; 16. A dynamic limit pricing model of the firm; 17. The adjustment cost model of the firm; 18. Qualitative properties of infinite horizon optimal control problems with one state variable and one control variable; 19. Dynamic programming and the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation; 20. Intertemporal duality in the adjustment cost model of the firm.
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Cambridge University Press Bad Year Economics
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Cambridge University Press Amartya Sen
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Cambridge University Press Commerce Complexity and Evolution
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Cambridge University Press Environmental Dilemmas and Policy Design Theories of Institutional Design
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Cambridge University Press The Legacy of Scholasticism in Economic Thought
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Cambridge University Press The Evolutionary Foundations of Economics
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Cambridge University Press Uncertainty Production Choice and Agency
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Cambridge University Press Applied Economics and Public Policy 63 Department of Applied Economics Occasional Papers Series Number 63
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Cambridge University Press Environmental Dilemmas and Policy Design
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Cambridge University Press Theory of Public Finance in a Federal State
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Cambridge University Press Frontiers of Research in Economic Theory The Nancy L Schwartz Memorial Lectures 19831997 29 Econometric Society Monographs
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Cambridge University Press Econometrics and Economic Theory in the 20th Century The Ragnar Frisch Centennial Symposium 31 Econometric Society Monographs Series Number 31
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Cambridge University Press Econometrics Econ Theory in 20C The Ragnar Frisch Centennial Symposium 31 Econometric Society Monographs Series Number 31
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Cambridge University Press Frontiers of Research in Economic Theory
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Cambridge University Press Fabricating the Keynesian Revolution
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Cambridge University Press Competitive Governments
Book SynopsisCompetitive Governments explores in a systematic way the hypothesis that governments are internally competitive, that they are competitive in their relations with each other and in their relations with other institutions in society which, like them, supply consuming households with goods and services.Trade Review"Breton traverses an impressive array of disciplines and scholars....an optimistic look at the possibility of efficient solutions within the context of current democratic political structures." Choice"...the author is careful and thorough in laying out his arguments, and he challenges the reader to think about topics such as fiscal federalism and intragovernmental competition in a new light. The text is rich with ideas, full of thought provoking discussions and well informed by past work in the field." Thomas J. Nechyba, Journal of Economic Literature"...the book makes interesting and stimulating reading and is likely to be influential in shaping research in the future." Thomas J. Nechyba, Journal od Economic Literature"This book presents many useful insights....everyone should appreciate the novel arguments presented in this book." Donald Wittman, Southern Economic JournalTable of ContentsPreface; Part I. Compound Governments: 1. The conceptual framework; 2. Demand and its revelation; 3. Checks and balances; 4. Budgetary processes; 5. Consent, suffrage, and support; 6. Hierarchy and bureaucracy; Part II. Governmental Systems: 7. A retrospective overview; 8. The organization of governmental systems; 9. Competition, stability, and central governments; 10. The world order; Part III. Socio-Political Structures: 11. The size of the nonmarket sector; 12. The growth of governments; Conclusion; Appendices: A. Long-term budget deficits; B. The power of 'small' groups; C. The independence of judiciaries; D. Information and pressure; R. An empirical Wicksellian connection?; F. Overlap and duplication; G. Structure and stability of federal states; References; Name index; Subject index.
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Cambridge University Press Rules and Reason
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Cambridge University Press Models as Mediators Perspectives on Natural and Social Science 52 Ideas in Context Series Number 52
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Cambridge University Press MODELS AS MEDIATORS PERSPECTIVES ON NATURAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE IDEAS IN CONTEXT BY MORGAN MARYAUTHORPaperback
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Cambridge University Press Growth Inequality and Globalization
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Cambridge University Press Rules and Reason
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Cambridge University Press Behavioral Law and Economics
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Cambridge University Press Migration
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Cambridge University Press Labour Unions Public Policy and Economic Growth
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Cambridge University Press Behavioral Law and Economics Cambridge Series on Judgment and Decision Making
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Cambridge University Press huntingcausesandusingthem
Book SynopsisHunting Causes and Using Them argues that causation is not one thing, as commonly assumed, but many. There is a huge variety of causal relations, each with different characterizing features, different methods for discovery and different uses to which it can be put. In this collection of new and previously published essays, Nancy Cartwright provides a critical survey of philosophical and economic literature on causality, with a special focus on the currently fashionable Bayes-nets and invariance methods - and it exposes a huge gap in that literature. Almost every account treats either exclusively how to hunt causes or how to use them. But where is the bridge between? It's no good knowing how to warrant a causal claim if we don't know what we can do with that claim once we have it. This book will interest philosophers, economists and social scientists.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Plurality in Causality: 1. Preamble; 2. Causation: one word, many things; 3. Causes: warranting them and using them; 4. Where is the theory in our 'theories' of causality?; Part II. Case Studies: Bayes-nets and Invariance Theories: 5. Preamble; 6. What is wrong with Bayes-nets?; 7. Modularity: it can - and generally does - fail; 8. Against modularity, the causal Markov condition and any link between the two: comments on Hausman and Woodward; 9. From metaphysics to method: comments on manipulability and the causal Markov condition; 10. Two theorems on invariance and causality; Part III. Causal Theories in Economics: 11. Preamble; 12. Probabilities and experiments; 13. How to get causes from probabilities: Cartwright on Simon on causation; 14. The merger of cause and strategy: Hoover on Simon on causation; 15. The vanity of rigour in economics: theoretical models and Galilean experiments; 16. Counterfactuals in economics: a commentary.
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Cambridge University Press Post Walrasian Macroeconomics Beyond the Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Model
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Cambridge University Press Rationality and the Ideology of Disconnection
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Cambridge University Press The Evolutionary Foundations of Economics
Book SynopsisThis 2005 volume brings together fifteen original articles from eminent economists in their common efforts to reconstruct economics as an evolutionary science. Using meso economics as an analytical entity, bridging micro and macro economics as well as static and dynamic realms, a unified economic theory emerges.Trade Review'The construction of an evolutionary economics is, in my view, one of the greatest scientific adventures of our time. This book brings together the leading scholars in the field to articulate what the evolutionary project in economics is all about, to provide a sense of its scope, and to lay the foundations for future research. The volume also extends a genuine invitation to participate in the exciting task of building an empirically grounded economic theory. The theoretical edifice of evolutionary economics is presently a work in progress, with some floors and some quarters much better worked out than others. But the vision of what it should look like at the end emerges clearly from this volume: it should be able to explain how modern economics came about through historically contingent processes and it should provide us with a deeper understanding of the economic challenges that lie ahead. I recommend leaving the introductory chapter for the end. Visit straight away the individual scholars' workshops, which are filled with many marvelous insights.' Johann Peter Murmann, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University'Kurt Dopfer, who possesses one of the most imaginative minds in the economics profession, has organized a splendid collection of the leading views on the nature and future of evolutionary economics. His choice is a marvellous combination of both the forest and the trees. If you want to know where the profession is, and where it thinks it is going, this is the book to study.' Mark Perlman, University of Pittsburgh'The Evolutionary Foundations of Economics is an outstanding contribution to the development of evolutionary economics. The well edited chapters encompass the most prolific fields within evolutionary economics, ranging from complexity theory to the evolutionary theory of growth and development. Together with Kurt Dopfer's splendid introduction the book has to be considered as a guidepost in evolutionary economics, emphasizing the meso level of the economy as the decisive analytical basis in dealing with phenomena such as structure, pattern, change and development. The sixteen chapters of this volume, all written by well recognized scholars, are extremely helpful and important for understanding the functioning of modern capitalism and provide a valuable input for future research.' Horst Hanusch, University of Augsburg, Secretary General of International J. A. Schumpeter Society'This important new book speaks with the voices of the most significant figures in present-day evolutionary economics. Anyone seriously interested in the evolutionary approach will have to stop and listen.' Richard N. Langlois, Department of Economics, University of Connecticut'This book is a rare gathering of some of the deepest thinkers of modern evolutionary and complexity-based approaches to economic analysis. The themes reach across and beyond particular subject concerns and into the very foundations and great potential of evolutionary economics. It is a rich and stimulating compendium.' Jason Potts, School of Economics, University of Queensland, AustraliaTable of ContentsProlegomenon; 1. Evolutionary economics: a theoretical framework Kurt Dopfer; Part I. Ontological Foundations: 2. The rediscovery of value and the opening of economics Ilya Prigogine; 3. Synergetics: from physics to economics Hermann Haken; 4. Darwinism, altruism and economics Herbert A. Simon; 5. Decomposition and growth: biological metaphors in economics from the 1880s to the 1980s Geoffrey M. Hodgson; 6. Path dependence in economic processes: implications for policy analysis in dynamical systems contexts Paul A. David; 7. Is there a theory of economic history? Joel Mokyr; Part II. Framework for Evolutionary Analysis: 8. Toward an evolutionary theory of production Sidney G. Winter; 9. Learning in evolutionary environments Giovanni Dosi, Luigi Marengo and Giorgio Fagiolo; 10. Evolutionary theory of the firm Ulrich Witt; 11. The self-organizational perspective on economic processes: a unifying paradigm John Foster; 12. Evolutionary concepts in relation to evolutionary economics J. Stanley Metcalfe; 13. Economics and the science of evolutionary complex systems Peter Allen; 14. Perspectives on technological evolution Richard R. Nelson; 15. Complex dynamics in economic organisms Ping Chen; 16. Evolutionary theorizing on economic growth Gerald Silverberg and Bart Verspagen; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Economic Principles of Law Law in Context S
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Cambridge University Press The Philosophy of Economics An Anthology
Book SynopsisAn anthology of works on the philosophy of economics, including classic texts and essays exploring specific branches and schools of economics. Completely revamped, this edition contains new selections, a revised introduction and a bibliography. The volume contains 26 chapters organized into five parts: (I) Classic Discussions, (II) Positivist and Popperian Views, (III) Ideology and Normative Economics, (IV) Branches and Schools of Economics and Their Methodological Problems and (V) New Directions in Economic Methodology. It includes crucial historical contributions by figures such as Mill, Marx, Weber, Robbins, Knight, and Veblen and works by most of the leading contemporary figures writing on economic methodology, including five Nobel Laureates in Economics.Table of ContentsPart I. Classic Discussions: 1. On the definition and method of political economy John Stuart Mill; 2. Objectivity and understanding in economics Max Weber; 3. The nature and significance of economic science Lionel Robbins; 4. Economics and human action Frank Knight; 5. Philosophical foundations of economics: three texts Karl Marx; 6. The limitations of marginal utility Thorstein Veblen; Part II. Positivist and Popperian Views: 7. The methodology of positive economics Milton Friedman; 8. Testability and approximation Herbert Simon; 9. Why look under the hood? Daniel M. Hausman; 10. Popper and Lakatos in economic methodology D. Wade Hands; Part III. Ideology and Normative Economics: 11. Science and ideology Joseph Schumpeter; 12. Welfare propositions of economics and interpersonal comparisons of utility Nicholas Kaldor; 13. The philosophical foundations of mainstream normative economics Daniel M. Hausman and Michael S. McPherson; 14. Why is cost-benefit analysis so controversial? Robert Frank; 15. Capability and well-being Amartya Sen; Part IV. Branches and Schools of Economics and their Methodological Problems: 16. Econometrics as observation: the Lucas critique and the nature of econometric inference Kevin Hoover; 17. Does macroeconomics need microfoundations? Kevin Hoover; 18. Economics in the laboratory Vernon Smith; 19. Neuroeconomics: using neuroscience to make economic predictions Colin F. Camerer; 20. The market as a creative process James M. Buchanan and Viktor J. Vanberg; 21. What is the essence of institutional economics? Geoffrey Hodgson; Part V. New Directions in Economic Methodology: 22. The rhetoric of this economics Deirdre McCloskey; 23. Realism Uskali Mäki; 24. What has realism got to do with it? Tony Lawson; 25. Feminism and economics Julie Nelson; 26. Credible worlds: the status of theoretical models in economics Robert Sugden.
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Cambridge University Press Wealth and Life Essays on the Intellectual History of Political Economy in Britain 18481914 95 Ideas in Context Series Number 95
Book SynopsisDonald Winch completes the intellectual history of political economy begun in Riches and Poverty (1996). A major theme addressed in both volumes is the 'bitter argument between economists and human beings' provoked by Britain's industrial revolution. Winch takes the argument from Mill's contributions to the 'condition-of-England' debate in 1848 through to the work on economic wellbeing of Alfred Marshall. The writings of major figures of the period are examined in a sequence of interlinked essays that ends with consideration of the twentieth-century fate of the debate between utilitarians and romantics in the hands of Leavis, Williams and Thompson. Donald Winch is one of Britain's most distinguished historians of ideas, and Wealth and Life brings to fruition a long-standing interest in the history of those intellectual pursuits that have shaped the understanding of Britain as an industrial society, and continue to influence cultural responses to the moral questions posed by economic liTrade Review'In this wide-ranging yet tightly argued and frequently brilliant work, Donald Winch presents an intellectual history of British political economy, from 1848–1914. … Winch's work, which combines fine-grained detail and lapidary prose with not inconsiderable empathy for this subjects, is a worthy addition to this exchange. It represents if not the definitive, certainly a definitive intellectual history of British political economy, from 1848–1914. Historians of economics and literature alike will profit greatly from this book.' Storia del pensiero economicoTable of ContentsPrologue: economists and human beings; Part I. Mill's Principles: 1. Sentimental enemies, advanced intellects, and falling profits; 2. Wild natural beauty, the religion of humanity, and unearned increments; Part II. Three Responses to Mill: 3. 'Poor cretinous wretch': Ruskin's antagonism; 4. 'Last man of the ante-Mill period': Walter Bagehot; 5. 'As much a matter of heart as head': Jevons's aversion; Part III. Free Exchange and Economic Socialism: 6. Louis Mallet and the philosophy of free exchange; 7. Henry Sidgwick and economic socialism; Part IV. Foxwell and Marshall: 8. The old generation of political economists and the new; 9. Wealth, wellbeing and the academic economist; Part V. Heretics and Professionals: 10. 'A composition of successive heresies': J. A. Hobson; 11. Academic minds; Appendix: Mr Gradgrind and Jerusalem; Bibliographic abbreviations and notes.
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Cambridge University Press Humanism in Business
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Cambridge University Press Economic Development and Transition
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Cambridge University Press The Theory of the Firm Microeconomics with Endogenous Entrepreneurs Firms Markets and Organizations
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Cambridge University Press Civilizing the Economy A New Economics of Provision
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Cambridge University Press Trade and Industrial Policy under International Oligopoly
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Adam Smith
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Cambridge University Press Competition and Structure
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Cambridge University Press Individuals Institutions and Markets
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Adam Smith
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Cambridge University Press Uncertainty Production Choice and Agency
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Cambridge University Press Microsimulation Modelling for Policy Analysis Challenges and Innovations 65 Department of Applied Economics Occasional Papers Series Number 65
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Cambridge University Press Domain Conditions in Social Choice Theory
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Cambridge University Press Economic Concepts for the Social Sciences
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