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Book SynopsisThis highly innovative and original book proposes evolutionary microeconomics as a synthesis of the collective schools of heterodox economic thought with complex systems theory and graph theory. The book charts a research programme for evolutionary economics that encompasses the theory of dynamic efficiency and emergence in markets, a computational model of the learning and interacting agent, a competence based theory of the firm and the household, and, via a theory of expectations and plans, an agent-based foundation to macroeconomics.Principally a work of meta-theory, The New Evolutionary Microeconomics argues for a radical refocus of microeconomic research toward the evolutionary nature of institutions, preferences, technology and knowledge.This challenging new book should prove timely and important for evolutionary and computational economists as well as those in the fields of managerial economics, business studies and marketing.Trade Review'Assessing this book on its own merits leads me to conclude that it is based upon a very clearly structured and argued central thesis. Further, the arguments in support of the thesis are compelling and the citations upon which it draws are authoritative. . . Ultimately the outstanding distinction of this book is the broad compass of the material and the coherent tapestry that Potts has weaved from it. It is a work of rare ambition and this is quite unusual in the staid realm of academia. . . this is an important addition to the corpus of economic knowledge. . . This book deserves a wide audience and I recommend it to all economists without hesitation.' -- Tim Wakeley, Journal of Economic Psychology'In my view this is one of the most important books on the theory of evolutionary economics in the last half century and perhaps the most consequential work in the area since Richard Nelson and Sidney Winter's famous volume of 1982. . . I picked this book up and could not put it down, it is a fantastic read - a brilliant volume. It really is a very major and highly original piece of work.' -- Geoffrey M. Hodgson, University of Hertfordshire, UK'The New Evolutionary Microeconomics is a work of unusually broad and often deep scholarship, tackling a very big issue and dealing with it forcefully. This book is nothing less than a fundamental critique of the very basis of neoclassical microeconomics, and a proposal for the structure of a new "evolutionary" theory. It made for fascinating reading and I hope and expect we will hear more of Jason Potts and his research programme.' -- Tim Hazeldine, University of Auckland, New Zealand'Jason Potts has written an ambitious and excellent book on the micro foundations of evolutionary economics. He has covered a wide range of literature and integrated the diverse strands into a coherent argument. It is a carefully crafted piece of work.' -- Stan Metcalfe, University of Manchester, UK'I think this is a very good book . . . Potts writes very, very well and some of his exposition of technical points and issues is spectacularly good.' -- Richard R. Nelson, Columbia University, US'This is a well structured, well written and imaginative book. It connected very effectively with my own ways of thinking while providing enlightening new perspectives and indeed substantive novelty. My recent writing would have been better had I been able to read this book first, and if my future writing is not better as a result of reading it that will be my fault.' -- Brian J. Loasby, University of Stirling, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. The Geometry of Economic Space 3. Economic Systems 4. Systems Theory and Complexity 5. The Microeconomic Agent 6. Production Systems and Competence 7. The Theory of Expectations 8. Conclusions References Index

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Book SynopsisThis sequel to Marx and Non-Equilibrium Economics introduces the key advances in modern value theory. Leading authors with contrasting theoretical viewpoints debate equilibrium and non-equilibrium approaches, abstract labour and money, and provide an invaluable introduction to the rapidly growing body of new work in these fields.The authors cover cutting-edge topics in value theory including gender and money, crisis theory, the impact of technology, skilled and complex labour, and the effect of international transfers of value.All of the papers in The New Value Controversy and the Foundations of Economics concentrate on new research. The mathematical content is minimal, allowing both active researchers and new students to introduce themselves to the burgeoning critical reappraisal of the foundations of Twentieth Century economic thinking.Trade Review'The New Value Controversy and the Foundation of Economics constitutes a useful benchmark for some recent work in Marxian value theory.' -- Fletcher Baragar, Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology'This volume promotes an open dialogue between the Temporal Single-System (TSS) versus the traditional-Sraffian interpretation of Marx's labor theory of value. It does so by first setting out the basis for the debate, secondly by extensively developing the TSS interpretation, and lastly by inviting those who disagree to engage in an open dialogue. It is by moving towards a critical Marxist pluralism, the editors believe, that Marxist scholarship will be lifted from its current hidebound stupor. Questioning tradition and providing the basis of an alternative, The New Value Controversy and the Foundations of Economics is a book that all heterodox economists should read.' -- Frederic S. Lee, University of Missouri, Kansas City, US'A well focused debate over the key issue in Marx's economics by some of the world's leading Marxist economists. I can't think of a better way (or work) to introduce students to the intricacies of Marx's value theory and the controversies it has spawned. Highly recommended!' -- Bertell Ollman, New York University, US'This rich set of essays breathes new life into Marxian economics by demonstrating the range and veracity of Marx's theory of value as well as a steadfast commitment to open dialogue and fair-minded debate on these fundamental issues. As practiced here, value theory is a vehicle for rigorous analysis and conversation within and across paradigms. This alone is an enormous contribution to heterodox economics and to contemporary economics at large, where questions of value are enduringly central yet rarely discussed in a cogent and pluralistic manner.' -- Robert F. Garnett, Texas Christian University, US'Rather than disappearing, Marxian value theory has experienced a new surge of interest, interpretations, and dispute since the end of the Cold War. A considerable amount of this dispute has centered on the Temporal Single-System Interpretation (TSSI). This volume brings together in one place most of the leading participants in these discussions, both those who advocate this approach as well as those who have been most articulate in their disagreements with it on a variety of grounds. Among the issues involved in these debates are the role of time, the role of money, the role of inputs, the role and nature of economic equilibrium, and broader philosophical, ideological, and historical questions. Besides the comprehensive coverage of this debate, this volume also provides a 'snapshot' of views on other Marxian economics issues by various other leading individuals. This is clearly the definitive volume on controversies over Marxian value theory available at this time.' -- J. Barkley Rosser Jr., James Madison University, US'This book assembles - in an impressively undogmatic and theoretically self-conscious way - an excellent set of mutually engaged articles. Well chosen to highlight the central claims and debates surrounding them, the articles document the dramatic recent renewal of Marxian value theories, extend them provocatively to important issues, and thereby effectively challenge Marxian economics' censorious exclusion from the academic mainstream.' -- Richard D. Wolff, University of Massachusetts, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Rhetoric and Substance in Value Theory: An Appraisal of the New Orthodox Marxism 2. Marx versus the ‘20th-Century Marxists’: A Reply to Laibman 3. The Return to Marx: Retreat or Advance 4. The Case for Simplicity: A Paradigm for the Political Economy of the 21st Century 5. Labour, Money, Labour-saving Innovation and the Falling Rate of Profit 6. The Other Side of the Class Relation: Women, Money and Commodities in Capitalism 7. Value, Abstract Labour and Exchange Equivalence 8. The Duality of Labour 9. On the Abstraction of Labour as a Social Determination 10. Defining the Concreteness of the Abstract and its Measure: Notes on the Relation between Key Concepts in Marx’s Theory of Capitalism 11. Forms of Existence of Abstract Labour and Value-form 12. Calculating Labour Values Empirically 13. Socialism and Value Categories in the Early Soviet Doctrine: Lenin, Trotsky, Buharin and Preobrazhensky 14. Value’s Law, Value’s Metric 15. Towards an Empirical Measurement of International Transfers of Value 16. Some Empirical Considerations for the Question of Transformation 17. Devalorisation, Crises, and Capital Accumulation in the Late 19th Century US Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis major two-volume collection focuses on the economics of distributional equity and the way general criteria for comparisons of income-distribution can be used to inform the analysis of inequality and poverty. The issues addressed include: the nature of general ranking rules for comparing economic states based on simple ethical principles; the close relationship between the analysis of poverty and that of inequality or social welfare; the structure and properties of inequality and poverty indices. In addition to covering theoretical and empirical questions, the development of the subject is set in historical context. The extensive new introduction by the editor explains the relationship between the various component topics.These insightful volumes will be an essential source of reference for students, researchers and practitioners.Trade Review'This magnificent collection is a must for every welfare economics and general economics library. . .' -- Citizen's IncomeTable of ContentsContents: Volume I Acknowledgements Introduction Frank A. Cowell PART I WELFARE BASIS OF DISTRIBUTIONAL ANALYSIS 1. A.C. Pigou (1912), ‘Economic Welfare and the National Dividend’ 2. Hugh Dalton (1920), ‘The Measurement of the Inequality of Incomes’ 3. John C. Harsanyi (1955), ‘Cardinal Welfare, Individualistic Ethics, and Interpersonal Comparisons of Utility’ 4. Harold M. Hochman and James D. Rodgers (1969), ‘Pareto Optimal Redistribution’ 5. Larry S. Temkin (1986), ‘Inequality’ 6. Yoram Amiel and Frank A. Cowell (1992), ‘Measurement of Income Inequality: Experimental Test by Questionnaire’ 7. Peter Vallentyne (2000), ‘Equality, Efficiency, and the Priority of the Worse-off’ PART II WELFARE AND INEQUALITY RANKINGS 8. M.O. Lorenz (1905), ‘Methods of Measuring the Concentration of Wealth’ 9. Jan Pen (1971), ‘A Parade of Dwarfs (and a Few Giants)’, excerpt from ‘Some Facts to be Explained’ 10. Rubin Saposnik (1981), ‘Rank-dominance in Income Distributions’ 11. Anthony F. Shorrocks (1983), ‘Ranking Income Distributions’ 12. Peter C. Fishburn and Robert D. Willig (1984), ‘Transfer Principles in Income Redistribution’ PART III INEQUALITY MEASUREMENT 13. Corrado Gini (1921), ‘Measurement of Inequality of Incomes’ 14. Henri Theil (1967), ‘The Measurement of Income Inequality’ 15. Menahem E. Yaari (1988), ‘A Controversial Proposal Concerning Inequality Measurement’ PART IV INEQUALITY: WELFARE APPROACH 16. S.-Ch. Kolm ([1969] 2001), ‘The Optimal Production of Social Justice’ 17. Anthony B. Atkinson (1970), ‘On the Measurement of Inequality’ 18. Partha Dasgupta, Amartya Sen and David Starrett (1973), ‘Notes on the Measurement of Inequality’ 19. Michael Rothschild and Joseph E. Stiglitz (1973), ‘Some Further Results on the Measurement of Inequality’ 20. J.E. Meade (1976), ‘The Objectives of Distributional Policies’ 21. Serge-Christophe Kolm (1976), ‘Unequal Inequalities. I’ 22. Serge-Christophe Kolm (1976), ‘Unequal Inequalities. II’ 23. Charles Blackorby and David Donaldson (1978), ‘Measures of Relative Equality and Their Meaning in Terms of Social Welfare’ PART V INEQUALITY: STRUCTURE 24. Francois Bourguignon (1979), ‘Decomposable Income Inequality Measures’ 25. Frank A. Cowell (1980), ‘On the Structure of Additive Inequality Measures’ 26. Anthony F. Shorrocks (1984), ‘Inequality Decomposition by Population Subgroups’ 27. Udo Ebert (1988), ‘A Family of Aggregative Compromise Inequality Measures’ PART VI MULTIDIMENSIONAL APPROACHES 28. Frank A. Cowell (1985), ‘Measures of Distributional Change: An Axiomatic Approach’ 29. Serge-Christophe Kolm (1977), ‘Multidimensional Egalitarianisms’ 30. A.F. Shorrocks (1982), ‘Inequality Decomposition by Factor Components’ PART VII POLARIZATION 31. Joan-María Esteban and Debraj Ray (1994), ‘On the Measurement of Polarization’ 32. Michael C. Wolfson (1994), ‘Conceptual Issues in Normative Measurement: When Inequalities Diverge’ PART VIII HORIZONTAL EQUITY 33. A.B. Atkinson (1980), ‘Horizontal Equity and the Distribution of the Tax Burden’ 34. Robert Plotnick (1981), ‘A Measure of Horizontal Inequity’ Name Index Volume II Acknowledgements An Introduction by the editor to both volumes appears in Volume I PART I POVERTY CONCEPT AND POVERTY LINE 1. Mollie Orshansky (1965), ‘Counting the Poor: Another Look at the Poverty Profile’ 2. Peter Townsend (1979), ‘Introduction: Concepts of Poverty and Deprivation’ 3. Amartya Sen (1979), ‘Issues in the Measurement of Poverty’ 4. Amartya Sen (1983), ‘Poor, Relatively Speaking’ 5. Andrea Cerioli and Sergio Zani (1990), ‘A Fuzzy Approach to the Measurement of Poverty’ 6. Martin Ravallion (1996), ‘Issues in Measuring and Modelling Poverty’ PART II POVERTY MEASURES 7. Harold Watts (1968), ‘An Economic Definition of Poverty’ 8. Charles Blackorby and David Donaldson (1980), ‘Ethical Indices for the Measurement of Poverty’ 9. Stephen Clark, Richard Hemming and David Ulph (1981), ‘On Indices for the Measurement of Poverty’ 10. James Foster, Joel Greer and Erik Thorbecke (1984), ‘A Class of Decomposable Poverty Measures’ 11. Aldi Hagenaars (1987), ‘A Class of Poverty Indices’ PART III POVERTY AXIOMS AND RANKINGS 12. Amartya Sen (1976), ‘Poverty: An Ordinal Approach to Measurement’ 13. A. Kundu and T.E. Smith (1983), ‘An Impossibility Theorem on Poverty Indices’ 14. A.B. Atkinson (1987), ‘On the Measurement of Poverty’ 15. J.E. Foster and A.F. Shorrocks (1988), ‘Poverty Orderings and Welfare Dominance’ PART IV WELFARE, INEQUALITY AND NEEDS 16. Anthony B. Atkinson and François Bourguignon (1987), ‘Income Distribution and Differences in Needs’ 17. Fiona A.E. Coulter, Frank A. Cowell and Stephen P. Jenkins (1992), ‘Equivalence Scale Relativities and the Extent of Inequality and Poverty’ 18. Edward P. Lazear and Robert T. Michael (1980), ‘Family Size and the Distribution of Real Per Capita Income’ 19. Angus S. Deaton and John Muellbauer (1986), ‘On Measuring Child Costs: With Applications to Poor Countries’ PART V RELATIVE DEPRIVATION 20. S.R. Chakravarty and A.B. Chakraborty (1984), ‘On Indices of Relative Deprivation’ 21. Shlomo Yitzhaki (1982), ‘Relative Deprivation and Economic Welfare’ PART VI PROGRESSIVITY 22. R.A. Musgrave and Tun Thin (1948), ‘Income Tax Progression, 1929–48’ 23. J. Fellman (1976), ‘The Effect of Transformations on Lorenz Curves’ 24. Ulf Jakobsson (1976), ‘On the Measurement of the Degree of Progression’ PART VII DYNAMICS 25. Mary Jo Bane and David T. Ellwood (1986), ‘Slipping Into and Out of Poverty: The Dynamics of Spells’ 26. Lee A. Lillard and Robert J. Willis (1978), ‘Dynamic Aspects of Earning Mobility’ PART VIII FUNCTIONAL FORMS OF INCOME AND WEALTH DISTRIBUTION 27. Vilfredo Pareto ([1896] 2001), ‘On the Distribution of Wealth and Income’ 28. Robert Gibrat ([1931] 1957), ‘On Economic Inequalities’ 29. John S. Chipman (1974), ‘The Welfare Ranking of Pareto Distributions’ 30. J. Aitchison and J.A.C. Brown (1954), ‘On Criteria for Descriptions of Income Distribution’ 31. D.G. Champernowne (1952), ‘The Graduation of Income Distributions’ 32. S.K. Singh and G.S. Maddala (1976), ‘A Function for Size Distribution of Incomes’ 33. James B. McDonald and Michael R. Ransom (1979), ‘Functional Forms, Estimation Techniques and the Distribution of Income’ PART IX STATISTICAL ISSUES 34. Frank A. Cowell and Fatemeh Mehta (1982), ‘The Estimation and Interpolation of Inequality Measures’ 35. Jeffrey A. Mills and Sourushe Zandvakili (1997), ‘Statistical Inference via Bootstrapping for Measures of Inequality’ 36. Charles M. Beach and Russell Davidson (1983), ‘Distribution-Free Statistical Inference with Lorenz Curves and Income Shares’ 37. Frank A. Cowell and Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser (1996), ‘Robustness Properties of Inequality Measures’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisKenneth Arrow and Gerard Debreu have throughout their careers continuously produced ideas at the very frontier of economics. Together, they have made unparalleled contributions on the properties of general equilibrium systems in economics, the study of collective choice and welfare economics. The editors have shown their usual rigor in selecting those papers which, in their view, have made the most important contributions in their particular areas of expertise. This volume will be an essential source of reference for students, researchers and practitioners alike.Table of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Preface Mark Blaug PART I GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM 1. Erik Lindahl (1939/1970), ‘The Traditional Setting of the Pricing Problem’, ‘Perfect Foresight and Stationary Conditions’, ‘Perfect Foresight and Dynamic Conditions’, ‘Imperfect Foresight’ and ‘The Problem of Balancing the Budget’ 2. Karl Schlesinger (1934), ‘Über die Produktionsgleichungen der Ökonomischen Wertlehre’ 3. Abraham Wald (1951), ‘On Some Systems of Equations of Mathematical Economics’ [translation of ‘Über einige Gleichungssysteme der mathematischen Ökonomie]’ 4. J. v. Neumann (1946), ‘A Model of General Economic Equilibrium’ [translation of ‘Über ein Ökonomisches Gleichungssystem und eine Verallgemeinerung des Brouwerschen Fixpunktsatzes]’ 5. John F. Nash, Jr (1950), ‘Equilibrium Points in N-Person Games’ 6. K.J. Arrow (1964), ‘The Role of Securities in the Optimal Allocation of Risk-bearing’ [translation of ‘Le Rôle des Valeurs Boursières pour la Répartition la Meilleure des Risques]’ 7. Lionel McKenzie (1954), ‘On Equilibrium in Graham’s Model of World Trade and Other Competitive Systems’ 8. Kenneth J. Arrow and Gerard Debreu (1954), ‘Existence of an Equilibrium for a Competitive Economy’ 9. Herbert Scarf (1960), ‘Some Examples of Global Instability of the Competitive Equilibrium’ 10. Herbert Scarf (1962), ‘An Analysis of Markets with a Large Number of Participants’ 11. Gerard Debreu and Herbert Scarf (1963), ‘A Limit Theorem on the Core of an Economy’ 12. Robert J. Aumann (1964), ‘Markets with a Continuum of Traders’ 13. Herbert Scarf (1967), ‘On the Computation of Equilibrium Prices’ 14. Roy Radner (1968), ‘Competitive Equilibrium Under Uncertainty’ 15. Gerard Debreu (1970), ‘Economies with a Finite Set of Equilibria’ 16. Hugo Sonnenschein (1972), ‘Market Excess Demand Functions’ 17. Sanford J. Grossman and Joseph E. Stiglitz (1976), ‘Information and Competitive Price Systems’ 18. Sanford J. Grossman (1977), ‘A Characterization of the Optimality of Equilibrium in Incomplete Markets’ 19. Werner Hildenbrand (1983), ‘On the "Law of Demand”’ 20. Darrell Duffie and Wayne Shafer (1985), ‘Equilibrium in Incomplete Markets I: A Basic Model of Generic Existence’ 21. Darrell Duffie and Wayne Shafer (1986), ‘Equilibrium in Incomplete Markets II: Generic Existence in Stochastic Economies’ 22. John Geanakoplos and Andreu Mas-Colell (1989), ‘Real Indeterminacy with Financial Assets’ PART II WELFARE ECONOMICS 23. Harold Hotelling (1938), ‘The General Welfare in Relation to Problems of Taxation and of Railway and Utility Rates’ 24. Abram Burk (1938), ‘A Reformulation of Certain Aspects of Welfare Economics’ 25. Nicholas Kaldor (1939), ‘Welfare Propositions of Economics and Inter-personal Comparisons of Utility’ 26. Kenneth J. Arrow (1951), ‘An Extension of the Basic Theorems of Classical Welfare Economics’ 27. Tibor Scitovsky (1954), ‘Two Concepts of External Economies’ PART III SOCIAL CHOICE 28. Howard R. Bowen (1944), ‘The Interpretation of Voting in the Allocation of Economic Resources’ 29. Duncan Black (1948), ‘On the Rationale of Group Decision-making’ 30. Amartya Sen and Prasanta K. Pattanaik (1969), ‘Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Rational Choice under Majority Decision’ 31. S.Ch. Kolm (1969/2001), ‘The Optimal Production of Social Justice’ 32. M.V. Posner and H. Tulkens (1969), ‘Discussion of Mr Kolm’s Paper’ 33. Amartya Sen (1970), ‘The Impossibility of a Paretian Liberal’ 34. Douglas H. Blair, Georges Bordes, Jerry S. Kelly and Kotaro Suzumura (1976), ‘Impossibility Theorems without Collective Rationality’ 35. Peter J. Hammond (1976), ‘Equity, Arrow’s Conditions, and Rawls’ Difference Principle’ 36. Kevin W.S. Roberts (1980), ‘Possibility Theorems with Interpersonally Comparable Welfare Levels’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisInnovation, science and technology and the wealth gained from them make continuous media copy and yet there is a manifest imbalance in society, a paradox of more prosperity but growing exclusion. This book marks the 25th anniversary of the Six Countries Programme, which pioneered the study of innovation from a policy viewpoint but with a radical ethos. This ethos is continued by the contributors to this book who challenge much of the current thinking on innovation and technology and attempt to provide markers for the way ahead. They propose a systemic approach to the innovation process as the route to a more sustainable future and provide the alternative of a learning society to a knowledge society which seems to be inexorably driven by Schumpetarian dynamics.Trade Review'This book is an important contribution to the debate on innovation policy. . . It gives a new insight into the whole issue of innovation process and its variations among countries. . . This is a very useful and timely book on innovation process. It is rich with experiences and is specially useful for researchers in the area of policy studies and for policymakers.' -- N. Mrinalini, Journal of Scientific and Industrial Resources'. . . Sweeney's contribution to this volume is very large, both in putting it all together and by delivering also a personal contribution which is both stimulating and exciting.' -- Keith Cowling, PrometheusTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction: Innovation and Innovation Policy: the Need for Re-examination 2. Cultural Influences on Innovation Climates in the Industrialised World 3. The Economic Role of Technology in a Competence Bloc based Industrial Policy Analysis 4. Innovation Policy as a Substitute for Failing Economic Policies 5. Innovation: From Individual Decisions to the Emergence of Policy and Global Fate – a Sociological Perspective 6. Internationalisation of Innovation, Interdependence and Innovation Policy for Sustainable Development 7. The Knowledge Based Economy: Better Living or Bigger Profits? 8. Learning-by-Comparing: Reflections on the Use and Abuse of International Benchmarking 9. Territory and Innovation: The Role of the Milieu 9. Social Capital: The Core Factor in Economic Resurgence 10. Innovation in the Next Decade: The Need for Integrated Policies Index

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Book SynopsisIn the 1970s, the Keynesian orthodoxy in macroeconomics began to break down. In direct contrast to Keynesian recommendations of discretionary policy, models advocating laissez-faire came to the forefront of economic theory. Laissez-faire no longer stood as an exceptional policy endorsed for rare occurrences of market clearing; rather it became the policy standard. This book provides the definitive account of this watershed and traces the evolution of laissez-faire using the cases of its proponents, Frank Knight, Henry Simons, Friedrich von Hayek, Milton Friedman, James Buchanan and Robert Lucas. By elucidating the pre-analytical framework of their writings, Sherryl Kasper accounts for the ideological influence of these pioneers on theoretical work, and illustrates that they played a primary role in founding the theoretical and philosophical use of rules as the basis of macroeconomic policy. A case study of the way in which interwar pluralism transcended to postwar neoclassicism is also featured.The volume concludes that economists ultimately favoured new classical economics due to the theoretical developments it incorporated, although at the same time, since Lucas uncritically adapted some of the ideas and tools of Friedman, an avenue for ideological influence remained.Tracing the evolution of American macroeconomic theory from the 1930s to the 1980s, this book will appeal to those with an interest in macroeconomics and in the history of scholars associated with the Chicago School of economics.Trade Review'This is an important contribution to the history of thought in macroeconomics. The chapters on Lucas and Simon are lucid and sketch the development of laissez-faire policy simultaneously.' -- A.V. Katos, Economic Issues'This is a nicely written, succinct overview of libertarian views on American macroeconomic theory by institutional economist Sherryl Davis Kasper.' -- Rick Tilman, Journal of Economic Issues'I find The Revival of Laissez-Faire informative, especially as a survey of the ideas of the six economists, each of whom was no doubt at the front in the intellectual battle over laissez-faire. The book is a good source on an important slice of twentieth century economics for undergraduate history of economics course.' -- J. Daniel Hammond, Journal of the History of Economic ThoughtTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Frank Hyneman Knight, The Moral Philosopher 3. Henry Calvert Simons, Author of the Blueprint 4. Friedrich von Hayek and the Austrian Influence 5. Milton Friedman and Monetarism 6. James Buchanan and Public Choice Theory 7. Robert E. Lucas, Jr. and New Classical Economics 8. Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisIn this path-breaking book, Richard Zerbe introduces a new way to think about the concept of economic efficiency that is both consistent with its historical derivation and more useful than concepts currently used. He establishes an expanded version of Kaldor-Hicks efficiency as an axiomatic system that performs the following tasks: the new approach obviates certain technical and ethical criticisms that have been made of economic efficiency; it answers critics of efficiency; it allows an expanded range for efficiency analysis; it establishes the conditions under which economists can reasonably say that some state of the world is inefficient. He then applies the new analysis to a number of hard and fascinating cases, including the economics of duelling, cannibalism and rape. He develops a new theory of common law efficiency and indicates the circumstances under which the common law will be inefficient.The book will be of great interest to scholars, students, and practitioners interested in the concept of economic efficiency and how it should be applied to law and economics.Trade Review'Economic Efficiency in Law and Economics is an interesting and worthwhile book.' -- Megan Richardson, Economic Record'Zerbe's new book is high-powered and potentially important.' -- Bill Goodman, Monthly Labor ReviewTable of ContentsContents: 1. History of the Concept of Economic Efficiency 2. The Foundation: A New Measure for Economic Efficiency 3. The Nature of Economic Efficiency 4. The Nature of Inefficiency 5. Rights and the Relationship of Law to Efficiency 6. The Problem of Missing Values in Normative Law and Economic Analysis 7. The Failure of Market Failure 8. Of Distributive Justice and Economic Efficiency: An Integrated Theory of the Common Law 9. The Efficiency of the Common Law: An Economic Analysis of Dueling, Cannibalism, the Gold Rush, Racism, and Antitrust Law 10. A Recapitulation References Index

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Book SynopsisThis is a comparative account of social care services for children and older people in five key industrial nations (Finland, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States). The authors break new ground by moving beyond institutional description and seeking to understand the normative and moral qualities of welfare systems. The book builds on existing theories of welfare state regimes by extending the analysis to the arena of social care.A full and fascinating account is provided of the historical, economic and political origins of childcare and care for older people in each of the five countries. These analyses are then used as the basis for a theoretical account of the developmental trajectories of social care systems. The book proposes that there are common pressures at work in all industrial nations driving their welfare systems to similar forms of organisation and structure. However, these trends are mediated by important differences in culture and history.The Young, the Old and the State is an eminently readable and accessible book, and will be warmly welcomed by academics and researchers in social and public policy, health and social care and welfare economics. It will also be of interest to policymakers and NGOs involved in welfare and social care provision and provide a useful source for students on undergraduate and graduate programmes.Trade Review'This book, edited by three well-known and widely respected academics reflects the diversity of social care while simultaneously striving to identify common patterns, trends and underpinning philosophies. It makes an important new contribution to understanding why patterns of social care differ between and within countries, and the consequences of these variations. In explaining contemporary patterns of social care for children and older people in the countries studied, the contributors turn to historical accounts to explain the current apparent lack of coherence. Underpinning the diverse patterns of social care development are the transformation of social care from a private good to a public commodity; tensions between universality and selectivity; and new tensions between individual rights and family responses. As well as providing detailed and up to the minute accounts of the different care systems in the countries studied, this book makes a major new contribution to our understanding of the complex and conflicting pressures underlying post-industrial welfare states.' -- Caroline Glendinning, University of Manchester, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. The Importance of Social Care Jorma Sipilä, Anneli Anttonen and John Baldock 2. Social Care in Finland: Stronger and Weaker Forms of Universalism Teppo Kröger, Anneli Anttonen and Jorma Sipilä 3. Social Care Services for Children and Older People in Germany: Distinct and Separate Histories Adalbert Evers and Christoph Sachße 4. Care for Children and Older People in Japan: Modernizing the Traditional Mutsuko Takahashi 5. Social Care in the United Kingdom: A Pattern of Discretionary Social Administration John Baldock 6. Care for Children and Older People in the United States: Laggard or Merely Different? Joseph Heffernan 7. Patterns of Social Care in Five Industrial Societies: Explaining Diversity Anneli Anttonen, Jorma Sipilä and John Baldock Index

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the significance of technological, organisational and institutional change as crucial factors in the analysis of the turnover time of capital. It also studies the related set of theoretical questions that concern the relationship between power, knowledge and time, in the context of capital accumulation and distribution.Michele Javary presents a creative and novel analysis of the ways in which these relationships can be analysed both conceptually and historically. She explores current issues relating to the dynamics of technical change, innovation, learning and institutional change by reviving and re-exploring one of the most penetrating contributions to economic thought: Marx's Capital. The author also combines historical and comparative perspectives to analyse the interplay between technology and organisations, based on the analysis of political governance in the United Kingdom and the rapid shift from coal to gas technologies at the time of the privatisation of the electricity supply industry. The analysis presented in the book elucidates many of the debates surrounding the economics of technological change and offers important new insights into both evolutionary and institutional economics. Students and scholars of industrial dynamics and technological change will find great value in the innovative analysis of the social and political factors that impact upon the selection, implementation and deployment of a new technology. Political economists and political scientists wishing to explore the significance of technology, organisations and institutions for capital accumulation and distribution will also be rewarded by this challenging book.Trade Review'Michele Javary takes on a major challenge in this book - the systematic analysis of the micro-foundations of capital and technological innovation in a way that takes into account the dynamics of the relationships between knowledge and time, power and knowledge, and power and time. Javary treats capital as a socio-economic phenomenon; one that is intimately linked to knowledge and to the scope of the options available for future economic development. She highlights the essential role of money-capital circulation time in forging the character of socio-economic institutions and their consequences for the selection of new technologies and for labour. Technological change in the electricity industry in the United Kingdom provides the historical material for a very insightful reinterpretation of the insights of Commons, Marx, Veblen, and others and of the implications of market liberalization. This book offers a new and much-needed understanding of the political-economy of technological change in modern times. This book should be required reading for all those with an interest in technological change, the management of innovation, and the organisation of the economy.' -- Robin Mansell, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK'This is a remarkable and highly original book. Not since Shackle has anyone made such an interesting study of the role of time in economics, and not since Marx has anyone tackled the question of the turnover time of capital in the context of political power, and the role of knowledge in relation to that power. Many books in economics are marginal in both senses of the word - they are in the marginalist neo-classical tradition, and they add little to the body of knowledge. This book is not marginal in either sense: it tackles some of the most fundamental questions in economic theory and it adds a great deal to our knowledge about them.' -- From the foreword by Christopher Freeman, SPRU - Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex, UK and Maastricht University, The NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: Foreword 1. Introduction 2. Power, Technology and Institutions in the Process of Capital Formation 3. A Critique of the Marxian Framework for the Analysis of Technology and Organization 4. Technology, Organization and the Turnover Time of Capital: The Transformational and Distributive Capacities of Socio-economic and Technical Systems 5. States and Markets Transformational and Distributive Capacity: Political Governance in the United Kingdom 6. Political Governance, Technology Selection and Endogenous Money: The Making of State-of-the-Art Technology in Electricity Generation 7. Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisGrowth Theory in Historical Perspective is a collection of thirteen carefully selected essays by Theo van de Klundert which demonstrate the development of growth theory over the past forty years. The sequence of chapters reveals the shifts in focus which have occurred since the first formal growth models of the 1940s and 1950s. He illustrates how the Keynesian paradigm was replaced by neo-classical models, which in turn have been superseded by theories of endogenous technical progress, the focus of growth theory in the 1990s.The author explains how the theory of economic growth is strongly shaped by ideas developed in the past. To this extent the book provides a comprehensive overview of the fundamentals of growth theory and develops important modern themes such as firm-specific research and development and the relationship between growth and international trade. Moreover, several of the chapters explore themes which, in the author's view, have been unfairly neglected in recent writings on the theory of growth. These include the role of demand factors, vintage models and issues of distribution, which he believes can still contribute to the current thinking on growth theory.By balancing insights from old and new theories of economic growth, this comprehensive book should prove fascinating reading for students, researchers and scholars of growth theory.Trade Review'Sjak Smulders has done an excellent job of editing and organising the papers. As the title of the book suggests, they are ordered in such a way that the reader gains an impression of how orthodox growth theory has changed over the post-war period. . . this collection of his [van de Klundert's] papers is to be welcomed.' -- John McCombie, History of Economics ReviewTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: Essentials of Growth Theory 1. Constructing Growth Theory 2. Reconstructing Growth Theory Part II: Empirics 3. Biased Efficiency Growth and Capital–Labour Substitution in the US, 1899–1960 4. On the Historical Continuity of the Process of Economic Growth Part III: Growth, Distribution and Unemployment 5. Economic Growth and Induced Technical Progress 6. Demand and Supply as Factors Determining Economic Growth 7. Endogenous Growth and Income Distribution Part IV: R&D and Firm-Specific Knowledge 8. Imperfect Competition, Concentration and Growth 9. Growth, Competition and Welfare 10. Loss of Technological Leadership of Rentier Economies Part V: International Trade and Growth 11. LDCs versus DCs: Trade and Growth 12. North–South Knowledge Spillovers and Competition: Convergence versus Divergence 13. Economic Development and Trade in the World Economy Index

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Book SynopsisEconomics Confronts the Economy is a challenging and unorthodox look at contemporary economic analysis. Philip Klein presents a highly reasoned and yet personal view of the state of economics today. While his views may be contentious to some, it is an accessible book that will provoke discussion and debate to a wide readership.Professor Klein begins with the assumption that the basic function of economic theory is to provide a sound guide for public policy in assisting society in defining what it means by 'economic progress'. In the words of Thorstein Veblen it involves economic activity as explicit steps to be taken at any given time to enable the economy to play its most effective role in 'enhancing human life'. The book argues that modern mainstream economics is failing in this task in terms of what it teaches young economists, what it contributes to public policy debates and what it has done to the field of economics.This book will have a wide audience throughout the many and varied fields of economics including heterodox economics, micro- and macroeconomics, history of economic thought and economic policy.Trade Review'To break the mind-numbing, stupefying grip of the neoclassical elite and make economics important once again is Klein's dream; and the dream is important because the past and present use of neoclassical economics has imposed untold hardship upon millions. The way forward he suggests is to go down the theoretical road of heterodox economics.' -- Frederic S. Lee, Journal of Economic Issues'Phil Klein, in a low key but deeply reasoned text, critiques economic theory for its misrepresentations of the economy and other shortcomings. In particular, Klein provides a critique of how mainstream economists - creating a corpus of doctrines that seem "quantitative, precise, logical, elegant, rigorous, and beautiful" - have made more of Adam Smith's "invisible hand" than did Smith himself. Some will agree and others will disagree with various of Klein's arguments. But all economists, and the discipline itself, will be better off if individual economists will diagnose WHY they agree and disagree, and both the bases and the implications thereof.' -- Warren Samuels, Michigan State University, US'I believe it to be a most significant contribution to a continuing assessment of the heartland of orthodox economic theory and its policy applications. I consider this volume to be the most pertinent and significant contribution of the last decade for the necessary and continuing critique of the relevance and applicability of mainstream neoclassical economic analysis. Professor Klein considers at length the substantive character and relevance of neoclassical orthodoxy as continuing futile efforts are made to salvage its contents and preserve its dominion as the encompassing discipline. He explores its trivialization; he examines its distorted views of the public sector; he laments its overly extensive deference to mathematical expression; he disputes its claim to dominion and exclusive relevance as an inquiry approach for the study of the economic process. In the concluding chapter he presents his persuasive alternative view of what a non-ideological, non-mathematical, but pertinent mode of economic inquiry would encompass.' -- Marc R. Tool, California State University, Sacramento, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. The Unchanging Focus of Modern Economics 2. Making Progress with Theory: Do We Get What We Want or Want What We Get? 3. Lowering the Learning in Economics, 1950–2000 4. Trivialization and Elegance I: The World of Microeconomics 5. Trivialization and Elegance II: The World of Macroeconomics 6. Theory and the Role of the Public Sector 7. Focus on ‘Mainstream Economics’: Obstacles to the Competition for New Ideas 8. Economics Confronts the Economy: An Alternative View – Don’t Cry for Me, Economics Index

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Book SynopsisThe institutional economy is the economy of rules and laws, conventions and precedents. It is prices but also practices, change but also constancy, individual but also interdependence. David Reisman argues that conformity and repetition as well as new initiatives and mould-breaking departures constitute the essence of supply and demand. This thorough and comprehensive book examines the role that institutions play in economic life. The discussion begins with common values, shared traditions and individual habits which have their roots in the past. It goes on to consider consumer preferences, needs and wants, altruism, malevolence, intrinsic motivation, organisational memory and the social capital that is embedded in networks and communities. Its conclusion is that there is a case for a broadly-based economics which is a science of norms and standards as well as a theory of prices and costs. Culture is continuity and pattern. Precisely the same is true of supply and demand.The Institutional Economy deals with a topic that is of increasing importance in social economics and political economy. It will be of interest to all social scientists concerned to make demand and supply more relevant to the economic conditions of the present day.Trade Review'This book is well structured and easy to follow, even though it deals with difficult material. It deserves to be read by all who are interested in escaping the narrow boundaries of current mainstream economics.' -- Anna Soci, Review of Political EconomyTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Economy as Society 3. Present as Past 4. Society as Past 5. People and Things 6. Benevolence 7. Malevolence 8. Needs and Wants 9. The Demand to Supply 10. Organisational Order 11. Organisational Cost 12. Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis outstanding book presents new original contributions from some of the world's leading economists including Ronald Coase, Douglass C. North, Masahiko Aoki, Oliver E. Williamson and Harold Demsetz. It demonstrates the extent and depth of the New Institutional Economics research programme which is having a worldwide impact on the economics profession.The book lays out the fundamental dimensions of the research programme with special emphasis on the interaction between institutional factors, both formal and informal, and the performance of different arrangements that organize transactions. After examining the foundations of New Institutional Economics and honouring Ronald Coase's contribution to the field, it presents controversial and conflicting views on the sources of growth. It places special emphasis on organizations and transactions, focusing on issues of trust, corruption, enforcement of contracts and modes of organization. Written by an eminent group of scholars, Institutions, Contracts and Organizations is an important landmark in the development of New Institutional Economics.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: Foundations Part II: Homage to Ronald H. Coase Part III: Sources of Growth: Technology, Natural Endowments or Institutions? Part IV: Trust, Distrust and Corruption Part V: Enforcement Issues Part VI: Institutions and Modes of Organizations Part VII: Models and Measures Index

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Book SynopsisThis thought-provoking book discusses the concept of progress in economics and investigates whether any advance has been made in its different spheres of research. The authors look back at the history, successes and failures of their respective fields and thoroughly examine the notion of progress from an epistemological and methodological perspective. The idea of progress is particularly significant as the authors regard it as an essentially contested concept which can be defined in many ways - theoretically or empirically; locally or globally; or as encouraging or impeding the existence of other research traditions. The authors discuss the idea that for progress to make any sense there must be an accumulation of knowledge built up over time rather than the replacement of ideas by each successive generation. Accordingly, they are not concerned with estimating the price of progress, reminiscing in the past, or assessing what has been lost. Instead they apply the complex mechanisms and machinery of the discipline to sub-fields such as normative economics, monetary economics, trade and location theory, Austrian economics and classical economics to critically assess whether progress has been made in these areas of research.Bringing together authoritative and wide-ranging contributions by leading scholars, this book will challenge and engage those interested in philosophy, economic methodology and the history of economic thought. It will also appeal to economists in general who are interested in the advancement of their profession.Trade Review'Is There Progress in Economics? should be given relatively high marks. First, the quality of the papers is quite high, and second, the editors did a relatively good job of selecting, arranging and editing the contributions so that the volume really does focus on the question in its title. The editors' introduction also contributes to the overall effect by attempting to tie all of the papers together into a reasonably tight bundle.' -- D. Wade Hands, Economic RecordTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Introduction Part I: Progress: A Contested Concept? Part II: Progress in the History of Ideas: Alternative Approaches Part III: Roundtable: Is there Progress in Economics? Part IV: Normative Economics Part V: Monetary Economics Part VI: Trade and Location Part VII: Currents of Thought Part VIII: Reflections on the Classical Long-Period Method Index

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Book SynopsisKnowledge is fast becoming one of the main sources of wealth, yet it can also become a source of inequalities. The New Knowledge Economy in Europe attempts to determine whether it is possible to hasten the transition towards a knowledge-based economy and enhance competitiveness with increased employment and improved social cohesion across Europe.The book is an amalgamation of the scientific and political agendas which led to the European strategy for the knowledge-based economy adopted by the European Union. Its authors illustrate their own influence on European policy making with contributions on a broad range of subjects, including: the potential for the growth of a knowledge-based global economy new challenges for the welfare state emerging trends in employment the role of international benchmarking as a policy learning tool the construction of European identity the building of multilevel governance required to undertake reforms. The results of the European strategy for the knowledge economy have become apparent throughout the EU in policy areas including research, innovation, single markets, education and employment, amongst others. This is the new blueprint for economic and social modernisation in the EU.The New Knowledge Economy in Europe will be of great interest to academics, managers, public administrators and professional organisations involved in studies of Europe or innovation.Trade Review'This book provides a worthwhile set of readings for Australian policymakers. . . For those policymakers and policy analysts keen to move beyond the weakly contested mantras of the knowledge economy and globalisation, this book will provide much valuable material.' -- Bernard McKenna, Labour and IndustryTable of ContentsContents 1. Introduction: for a European strategy at the turn of the century Maria João Rodrigues 2. The challenges and the potential of the knowledge-based economy in a globalised world Luc Soete 3. A new European social model for the twenty-first century? Gøsta Esping-Andersen 4. Knowledge-based economies: the European employment debate in a new context Robert M. Lindley 5. Institutional reforms for growth, employment and social cohesion: elements for a European and national agenda Robert Boyer 6. International benchmarking as a policy learning tool Bengt-Åke Lundvall and Mark Tomlinson 7. The construction of European identity Manuel Castells 8. Governance and government in the European Union: The open method of coordination Mario Telò Annexes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisVeblen was an original thinker, responsible for introducing and popularising a host of important concepts and insights. He ignited controversy not only in economics, but also in sociology, history and political science. The number and quality of the responses to his work provide evidence of the novelty and explanatory power of his ideas. These comprehensive volumes will enable the reader to sample the broad spectrum of Veblen's thought and that of his critics and interpreters. They include critical appraisals of the corpus of his published work as well as reinterpretations of his life and influence on the social sciences particularly economics, political science and sociology.This authoritative collection includes reprints of materials previously published by leading scholars on nearly every aspect of Veblen's life and work. It will be invaluable to professional scholars and graduate students who wish to heighten their understanding of the alternatives to formalism in the social studies.Trade Review'The thoughtful anthology on studies of Veblen is most timely in an era when profits no longer have much to do with productivity and conspicuous consumption is more conspicuous than ever. America's greatest social scientist dealt with emotions that continue to plague us - competitive rivalry, desire, envy, emulation.' -- - John Patrick Diggins, Graduate Center, City University of New York, USTable of ContentsContents: Volume I Acknowledgements Introduction Rick Tilman PART I ORIGINS AND BASIS OF VEBLEN’S THOUGHT 1. William M. Dugger (1979), ‘The Origins of Thorstein Veblen’s Thought’ 2. Anne Mayhew (1987), ‘The Beginnings of Institutionalism’ 3. Philip Mirowski (1987), ‘The Philosophical Bases of Institutionalist Economics’ 4. Stephen Edgell and Rick Tilman (1989), ‘The Intellectual Antecedents of Thorstein Veblen: A Reappraisal’ PART II HIS THEORY OF EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENT AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE 5. Stephen Edgell (1975), ‘Thorstein Veblen’s Theory of Evolutionary Change’ 6. Malcolm Rutherford (1984), ‘Thorstein Veblen and the Processes of Institutional Change’ 7. Paul D. Bush (1987), ‘The Theory of Institutional Change’ 8. Ann Jennings and William Waller (1994), ‘Evolutionary Economics and Cultural Hermeneutics: Veblen, Cultural Relativism, and Blind Drift’ 9. Geoffrey M. Hodgson (1998), ‘On the Evolution of Thorstein Veblen’s Evolutionary Economics’ 10. Clare Virginia Eby (1998), ‘Veblen’s Assault on Time’ PART III THEORY OF HUMAN NATURE 11. Melville J. Herskovits (1936), ‘The Significance of Thorstein Veblen for Anthropology’ 12. Thomas C. Mayberry (1969), ‘Thorstein Veblen on Human Nature’ 13. John P. Diggins (1977), ‘Animism and the Origins of Alienation: The Anthropological Perspective of Thorstein Veblen’ 14. William T. Waller, Jr. (1988), ‘The Concept of Habit in Economic Analysis’ 15. Stephen Edgell and Jules Townshend (1993), ‘Marx and Veblen on Human Nature, History, and Capitalism: Vive la Différence!’ PART IV CONSUMPTION 16. H. Leibenstein (1950), ‘Bandwagon, Snob, and Veblen Effects in the Theory of Consumers’ Demand’ 17. Robert L. Steiner and Joseph Weiss (1951), ‘Veblen Revised in the Light of Counter-Snobbery’ 18. David B. Hamilton (1987), ‘Institutional Economics and Consumption’ 19. Stephen Edgell (1992), ‘Veblen and Post-Veblen Studies of Conspicuous Consumption: Social Stratification and Fashion’ 20. Roger Mason (1995), ‘Interpersonal Effects on Consumer Demand in Economic Theory and Marketing Thought, 1890–1950’ 21. Colin Campbell (1995), ‘Conspicuous Confusion? A Critique of Veblen’s Theory of Conspicuous Consumption’ 22. Rick Tilman (1999), ‘Thorstein Veblen and the Disinterest of Neoclassical Economists in Wasteful Consumption’ PART V CRITIC OF CLASSICAL AND NEOCLASSICAL ECONOMICS 23. A.W. Coats (1954), ‘The Influence of Veblen’s Methodology’ 24. Marc R. Tool (1977), ‘A Social Value Theory in Neoinstitutional Economics’ 25. Syamal K. Ghosh (1984), ‘On the Validity of Veblen’s Criticisms of Economic Orthodoxy: An Analysis of His Positions in the Light of Current Conditions and Economic Thought’ 26. Sasan Fayazmanesh (1998), ‘On Veblen’s Coining of the Term "Neoclassical"’ Name Index Volume II Acknowledgements An introduction by the editor to all three volumes appears in Volume I PART I VEBLEN’S ECONOMIC SYSTEM 1. Karl L. Anderson (1933), ‘The Unity of Veblen’s Theoretical System’ 2. J.A. Hobson (1937), ‘The Economics of Thorstein Veblen’ 3. Paul M. Sweezy (1957), ‘The Theory of Business Enterprise and Absentee Ownership’ 4. Kenneth J. Arrow (1975), ‘Thorstein Veblen as an Economic Theorist’ 5. Donald A. Walker (1977), ‘Thorstein Veblen’s Economic System’ 6. James M. Cypher (1998), ‘Financial Dominance in the US Economy: The Increased Relevance of Veblen’s Analysis in a Post-Keynesian Structure’ PART II ON SOCIALISM AND RADICAL ECONOMICS 7. Joseph E. Pluta and Charles G. Leathers (1978), ‘Veblen and Modern Radical Economics’ 8. E.K. Hunt (1979), ‘The Importance of Thorstein Veblen for Contemporary Marxism’ 9. James Ronald Stanfield (1989), ‘Veblenian and Neo-Marxian Perspectives On the Cultural Crisis of Late Capitalism’ 10. William M. Dugger and William Waller (1996), ‘Radical Institutionalism: From Technological to Democratic Instrumentalism’ PART III VEBLEN AS SOCIOLOGIST AND SOCIAL PHILOSOPHER 11. Arthur K. Davis (1945), ‘Sociological Elements in Veblen’s Economic Theory’ 12. Abram L. Harris (1953), ‘Veblen as Social Philosopher – A Reappraisal’ 13. David Riesman (1953), ‘The Social and Psychological Setting of Veblen’s Economic Theory’ PART IV SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE AND CULTURE 14. Walter P. Metzger (1949), ‘Ideology and the Intellectual: A Study of Thorstein Veblen’ 15. Frank J. Weed (1972), ‘Thorstein Veblen’s Sociology of Knowledge’ 16. Warren J. Samuels (1990), ‘The Self-Referentiability of Thorstein Veblen’s Theory of the Preconceptions of Economic Science’ 17. Rick Tilman (1999), ‘The Frankfurt School and the Problem of Social Rationality in Thorstein Veblen’ PART V FEMINISM 18. Edythe S. Miller (1972), ‘Veblen and Women’s Lib: A Parallel’ 19. Jeffrey Waddoups and Rick Tilman (1992), ‘Thorstein Veblen and the Feminism of Institutional Economists’ 20. Clare Virginia Eby (1992), ‘Veblen’s Anti-Anti-Feminism’ 21. Ann Jennings (1998), ‘Veblen’s Feminism in Historical Perspective’ 22. Nils Gilman (1999), ‘Thorstein Veblen’s Neglected Feminism’ PART VI SATIRIST, STYLIST AND GRAMMARIAN 23. John Cummings (1899), ‘The Theory of the Leisure Class’ 24. Joseph Dorfman (1932), ‘The "Satire" of Thorstein Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class’ 25. Teresa Toulouse (1985), ‘Veblen and His Reader: Rhetoric and Intention in The Theory of the Leisure Class’ 26. Paul D. Bush (1999), ‘Veblen’s "Olympian Detachment" Reconsidered’ 27. Gary Alan Fine (1994), ‘The Social Construction of Style: Thorstein Veblen’s The Theory of the Leisure Class as Contested Text’ PART VII ON THE HIGHER LEARNING IN AMERICA 28. Charles A. Beard (1918), ‘The Hire Learning in America’ 29. Harold J. Laski (1919), ‘The Higher Learning in America’ 30. Thomas Sowell (1969), ‘Veblen’s Higher Learning After Fifty Years’ 31. Arthur J. Vidich (1994), ‘The Higher Learning in America in Veblen’s Time and Our Own’ Name Index Volume III Acknowledgements An introduction by the editor to all three volumes appears in Volume I PART I HIS IDEAL POLITICAL ECONOMY 1. H.J. Hodder (1956), ‘The Political Ideas of Thorstein Veblen’ 2. Rick Tilman (1972), ‘Veblen’s Ideal Political Economy and Its Critics’ 3. Donald R. Stabile (1988), ‘Veblen’s Analysis of Social Movements: Bellamyites, Workers, and Engineers’ 4. Charles G. Leathers (1989), ‘Thorstein Veblen’s Theories of Governmental Failure: The Critic of Capitalism and Democracy Neglected Some Useful Insights, Hindsight Shows’ 5. Malcolm Rutherford (1992), ‘Thorstein Veblen and the Problem of the Engineers’ PART II THE ROLE OF THE STATE IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 6. Niles M. Hansen (1964), ‘Weber and Veblen on Economic Development’ 7. Clarence E. Ayres (1960), ‘Institutionalism and Economic Development’ 8. Geoffrey Hodgson (1996), ‘An Evolutionary Theory of Long-Term Economic Growth’ PART III GERMANY AND JAPAN: IMPERIALISM, WAR AND PEACE 9. Graham Wallas (1915), ‘Veblen’s Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution’ 10. George H. Mead (1918), ‘The Nature of Peace and the Terms of Its Perpetuation. By Thorstein Veblen’ 11. Henry A. Wallace (1940), ‘Veblen’s "Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution"’ 12. William Appleman Williams (1957), ‘The Nature of Peace’ 13. Derk Visser (1969), ‘The German Captain of Enterprise: Veblen’s Imperial Germany Revisited’ 14. Jeff E. Biddle and Warren J. Samuels (1991), ‘Thorstein Veblen on War, Peace, and National Security’ PART IV THE BUSINESS/INDUSTRY DICHOTOMY 15. J.A. Banks (1959), ‘Veblen and Industrial Sociology’ 16. William T. Waller, Jr. (1982), ‘The Evolution of the Veblenian Dichotomy: Veblen, Hamilton, Ayres, and Foster’ 17. Phillip Anthony O’Hara (1993), ‘Veblen’s Analysis of Business, Industry and the Limits of Capital: An Interpretation and Sympathetic Critique’ 18. Geoffrey M. Hodgson (1998), ‘Dichotomizing the Dichotomy: Veblen versus Ayres’ PART V EGALITARIAN THEORIST OF COLLECTIVE WEALTH 19. Ken McCormick (1989), ‘Veblen on the Nature of Capital’ 20. Phillip Anthony O’Hara (1999), ‘Thorstein Veblen’s Theory of Collective Social Wealth, Instincts and Property Relations’ PART VI ECOLOGY AND DEMOGRAPHICS 21. Joseph J. Spengler (1972), ‘Veblen on Population and Resources’ 22. Wilbur R. Jacobs (1978), ‘The Great Despoliation: Environmental Themes in American Frontier History’ 23. Ron D. White (1978), ‘Growth versus Conservation: A Veblenian Perspective’ PART VII VEBLEN’S LIFE AND WORK RECONSIDERED 24. Florence Veblen (1931), ‘Thorstein Veblen: Reminiscences of His Brother Orson’ 25. Stephen Edgell (1996), ‘Rescuing Veblen From Valhalla: Deconstruction and Reconstruction of a Sociological Legend’ 26. Russell H. Bartley and Sylvia Erickson Bartley (2000), ‘Stigmatizing Thorstein Veblen: A Study in the Confection of Academic Reputations’ PART VIII VEBLEN’S INTELLECTUAL LEGACY 27. Solidelle Fortier Wasser (1994), ‘Veblen’s "Post-Modernist" Economics’ 28. C. Wright Mills (1953), ‘Introduction to the Mentor Edition’ 29. C.E. Ayres (1963), ‘The Legacy of Thorstein Veblen’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisTrust is an authoritative collection of previously published articles and is unique in the growing literature on trustworthiness. The broad ranging articles are organized into three parts, expressing three definite answers to the question posed in the introduction: Why does trustworthiness pay? Part I, 'Trust as Strategy', stipulates that trust is an investment in reputation. Part II, 'Trust as Taste', argues that agents have a preference for trustworthiness, which may explain the anomaly of trustworthiness in single-shot games. Part III, 'Trust as Trait', maintains that trust is a trait that evolutionary selection may favor. In his extensive introductory essay, Elias Khalil elaborates and contrasts the strengths and weaknesses of each answer.Including over 35 articles from diverse disciplines such as economics, sociology, political science, anthropology, philosophy, psychology, evolutionary biology, and organizational studies, Trust will be a valuable reference for many years to come.Trade Review'It is big, diverse and, through its organization coherent. This truly is an encyclopedia of trust research. . . warmly recommended.' -- D.J. Bezemer, Journal of Socio-Economics'This is a splendid collection of leading papers on a topic which properly is getting increasing attention.' -- Howard Margolis, University of Chicago, US'This is an excellent, comprehensive collection of essays on a subject of great importance - trust is a pervasive indispensable element of social cooperation, yet difficult to fit into the conventional categories of economic analysis. This book, with its fine introduction by the editor, anchors the subject and will be the starting point for further research into it.' -- Richard A. Posner, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and University of Chicago Law School, USTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction Why Does Trustworthiness Pay? Three Answers Elias L. Khalil PART I TRUST AS STRATEGY 1. Gordon Tullock (1985), ‘Adam Smith and the Prisoners’ Dilemma’ 2. Robert Axelrod and Douglas Dion (1988), ‘The Further Evolution of Cooperation’ 3. Jack Hirshleifer (1999), ‘There are Many Evolutionary Pathways to Cooperation’ 4. Oliver E. Williamson (1983), ‘Credible Commitments: Using Hostages to Support Exchange’ 5. David M. Kreps, Paul Milgrom, John Roberts and Robert Wilson (1982), ‘Rational Cooperation in the Finitely Repeated Prisoners’ Dilemma’ 6. John Gale, Kenneth G. Binmore and Larry Samuelson (1995), ‘Learning to Be Imperfect: The Ultimatum Game’ 7. Edward H. Lorenz (1988), ‘Neither Friends nor Strangers: Informal Networks of Subcontracting in French Industry’ 8. Keith Hart (1988), ‘Kinship, Contract, and Trust: The Economic Organization of Migrants in an African City Slum’ 9. Peter Kollock (1994), ‘The Emergence of Exchange Structures: An Experimental Study of Uncertainty, Commitment, and Trust’ 10. Avner Greif, Paul Milgrom and Barry R. Weingast (1994), ‘Coordination, Commitment, and Enforcement: The Case of the Merchant Guild’ 11. Oliver E. Williamson (1993), ‘Calculativeness, Trust, and Economic Organization’ 12. Bart Nooteboom (1996), ‘Trust, Opportunism and Governance: A Process and Control Model’ 13. Bernd Lahno (2001), ‘On the Emotional Character of Trust’ PART II TRUST AS TASTE 14. Ernst Fehr and Simon Gächter (2000), ‘Fairness and Retaliation: The Economics of Reciprocity’ 15. Werner Güth and Reinhard Tietz (1990), ‘Ultimatum Bargaining Behavior: A Survey and Comparison of Experimental Results’ 16. Alvin E. Roth, Vesna Prasnikar, Masahiro Okuno-Fujiwara and Shmuel Zamir (1991), ‘Bargaining and Market Behavior in Jerusalem, Ljubljana, Pittsburgh, and Tokyo: An Experimental Study’ 17. Joseph Henrich, Robert Boyd, Samuel Bowles, Colin Camerer, Ernst Fehr, Herbert Gintis and Richard McElreath (2001), ‘In Search of Homo Economicus: Behavioral Experiments in 15 Small-Scale Societies’ 18. James Andreoni (1988), ‘Why Free Ride? Strategies and Learning in Public Goods Experiments’ 19. Richard H. Thaler with Robyn M. Dawes (1992), ‘Cooperation’ 20. Joyce Berg, John Dickhaut and Kevin McCabe (1995), ‘Trust, Reciprocity, and Social History’ 21. Andreas Ortmann, John Fitzgerald and Carl Boeing (2000), ‘Trust, Reciprocity, and Social History: A Re-examination’ 22. Daniel Kahneman, Jack L. Knetsch and Richard Thaler (1986), ‘Fairness as a Constraint on Profit Seeking: Entitlements in the Market’ 23. George A. Akerlof (1982), ‘Labor Contracts as a Partial Gift Exchange’ 24. Matthew Rabin (1993), ‘Incorporating Fairness into Game Theory and Economics’ 25. David K. Levine (1998), ‘Modeling Altruism and Spitefulness in Experiments’ 26. Amitai Etzioni (1986), ‘The Case for a Multiple-Utility Conception’ 27. Amartya K. Sen (1977), ‘Rational Fools: A Critique of the Behavioral Foundations of Economic Theory’ 28. Elias L. Khalil (1999), ‘Sentimental Fools: A Critique of Amartya Sen’s Notion of Commitment’ PART III TRUST AS TRAIT 29. Ulrich Witt (1986), ‘Evolution and Stability of Cooperation without Enforceable Contracts’ 30. Werner Güth, Hartmut Kliemt and Bezalel Peleg (2000), ‘Co-evolution of Preferences and Information in Simple Games of Trust’ 31. Werner Güth and Menahem E. Yaari (1992), ‘Explaining Reciprocal Behavior in Simple Strategic Games: An Evolutionary Approach’ 32. Herbert Gintis (2000), ‘Strong Reciprocity and Human Sociality’ 33. Robert H. Frank (1987), ‘If Homo Economicus Could Choose His Own Utility Function, Would He Want One with a Conscience?’ 34. Jack Hirshleifer (1987), ‘On the Emotions as Guarantors of Threats and Promises’ 35. Jörn P.W. Scharlemann, Catherine C. Eckel, Alex Kacelnik and Rick K. Wilson (2001), ‘The Value of a Smile: Game Theory with a Human Face’ 36. Axel Ockenfels and Reinhard Selten (2000), ‘An Experiment on the Hypothesis of Involuntary Truth-Signalling in Bargaining’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is an integrated collection of a dozen of Peter Earl's lively and thought-provoking essays, carefully edited and updated. Theoretical topics include the prediction of corporate behaviour, the economic foundations of marketing and shopping mall design, pricing strategy and its relationship with the existence of second-hand markets, and the microfoundations of macroeconomics. Case studies include cooperation in the car industry, managerialist reforms in New Zealand and the university sector, structural change in the advertising industry and the place of G.B. Richardson and G.L.S. Shackle in the literature of economics.Information, Opportunism and Economic Coordination will be of particular interest to historians of economic thought, business economists, behavioural economists and Post Keynesians.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. Scientific Research Programmes and the Prediction of Corporate Behaviour 2. The Evolution of Cooperative Strategies: Three Automotive Industry Case Studies 3. George Richardson’s Career and the Literature of Economics 4. Shackle, Entrepreneurship and the Theory of the Firm 5. Managerialism and the Economics of the Firm 6. The Economic Rationale of Universities: A Reconsideration 7. Principal–Agent Problems and Structural Change in the Advertising Industry 8. Marketing as Information Economics 9. Latent Demand and the Browsing Shopper 10. Normal Cost versus Marginalist Models of Pricing: A Behavioural Perspective 11. Liquidity Preference, Marketability and Pricing 12. Information, Coordination and Macroeconomics Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe distinguished contributors in this volume provide a variety of essays, which are written in honor of Emmanuel Drandakis. These essays fall into four uniform areas of economics: economic growth, general equilibrium, labor economics and game theory and applications.The editors focus on a select set of issues that stand high on the agenda of academic research. They provide fresh insights and approaches to the analysis of these issues, and thus open up wider avenues for our understanding of the dilemmas posed for theory and policy. Readers are offered new empirical evidence on such thorny social problems as, for example, unemployment, the intergenerational transmission of human capital and the response of wages to price and endowment changes.These contributions, in conjunction with the realisation that the papers are written by some of the most distinguished economists in the respective areas, make the volume an attractive addition for all who are interested in the contemporary research and teaching of economics.Table of ContentsContents: Preface Part I: Economic Growth 1. Some Early Conferences on Growth Theory 2. Discounting and the Growth of Net National Product Part II: General Equilibrium 3. Equilibrium Selections 4. Extensive Form Implementation of Weak Fine Core Allocations through Penalties 5. Nonlinear Neighbourhood Interactions and Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital 6. Beliefs and the Neutrality of Money 7. Towards a General Theory of Real Capital Part III: Labor Economics 8. Endowment Changes, Price Response, and the Behavior of Wages 9. The Pace of Work and Pay 10. The Incidence of Increased Unemployment in the Group of Seven, 1970–94 11. Labor Incentives and Manumission in Ancient Greek Slavery Part IV: Game Theory and Applications 12. Agency Games 13. The Role of Beliefs, Knowledge, and Rationality in Non-Cooperative Games 14. The Economics of Research Joint Ventures Index

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Book SynopsisWritten by the scholar who, together with Chris Freeman, first introduced the concept of the innovation system, this book brings the literature an important step forward. Based upon extraordinarily rich empirical material, it shows how and why competence building and innovation are crucial for economic growth and competitiveness in the current era. It also provides a case study of a small, very successful European economy combining wealth creation with social cohesion. The author's comparative analysis of innovation systems demonstrates that the 'new economy' can thrive and grow not only in the US-type of economy but also in European economies which exhibit a high degree of social cohesion. He warns against the polarisation that may result from a development path where the success of individuals, organisations and national economies reflects their capability to adopt new competencies and skills. He argues that if this kind of learning economy is left unattended, it will eventually undermine the social cohesion that is essential for interactive learning processes. As such, he emphasises the need to develop coherent policy strategies at the regional, national and EU level in order to cope with the new challenges of the globalising learning economy.Innovation, Growth and Social Cohesion is a highly readable, non-technical book which illustrates the basic concepts with plentiful examples and a wide variety of empirical material. Students and scholars in the field of industrial dynamics and innovation research will find this an invaluable resource. It will also be of significant interest to policymakers looking for growth models compatible with social cohesion and those interested in understanding the dynamics of the new learning economy.Trade Review'My overall assessment of this book is very positive. It presents itself well and is a well written contribution to the debate on the future of innovation policy. It is certainly worth reading, presenting both interesting and thought-provoking insights on the dynamics of innovation systems, as well as an interesting chapter on policy and management implications. The focus on labour market policies as central means in innovation policy is an important point.' -- Poul Houman Andersen, Journal of Evolutionary Economics'Bengt-Ake Lundvall has made many outstanding original contributions to contemporary understanding of innovation systems, not only in Scandinavia but world-wide. This book is especially valuable in its deep appreciation of the role of social cohesion during periods of far-reaching technological transformation. Like the earlier work of Polanyi on "The Great Transformation", it is essential reading for all those concerned with innovation and social change.' -- Christopher Freeman, SPRU - Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex, UK and Maastricht University, The NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction: Innovation and Social Cohesion in a Learning Economy 1. The Objective: To Stimulate a Knowledge-based Debate about Innovation Policy 2. Innovation 3. The Innovation System 4. A National Innovation System? 5. The Specialization of the Danish Innovation System 6. Education, Labour Markets and Capital Markets as Fundamental Components of the Danish Innovation and Competence-building System 7. The Learning Economy 8. The Learning Organization 9. Knowledge Intensity and Knowledge Flows in the Danish Innovation System 10. Inter-firm Collaboration 11. Collaboration between Firms and Knowledge Institutions 12. Qualification Requirements and Organizational Change: New Challenges for Continuing Education and Vocational Training 13. Labour Market Dynamics, Innovation and Organizational Change 14. Lessons to be Learnt Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisChange manifests itself in all facets of the economy. This important collection of previously published essays illustrates how the evolutionary approach can reveal not only where change comes from, and how it happens, but also where it will lead. The Evolving Economy covers a broad spectrum of issues ranging from the biological foundations of economic behavior to the co-evolution of firms, markets, and institutions. Ulrich Witt's individualistic approach synthesizes elements familiar from the writings of Veblen and Schumpeter on economic evolution. A conceptual debate on what the notion of evolution means in the economic context is as much emphasized as is the discussion of concrete hypotheses explaining why and how evolutionary economic change comes about.Offering an outline of a paradigm focusing on endogenous economic change, this book will be of great interest to economists and economic historians. Sociologists, philosophers and anthropologists will also find this work invaluable as it presents an encompassing assessment of the role of Darwinian thought for understanding human behavior and societal evolution.Trade Review'This is a genuine tour de force and what must be acknowledged by anyone who has followed the evolution of evolutionary economics since the early 1980s is the original, pioneering nature of these essays and the ideas they contain. . . These essays are a pleasure to read and to reflect on at leisure. Many, like this reviewer, will recognise that Ulrich Witt has followed the path of novelty in these essays and that in relation to much of our present understanding of evolutionary economics he has exercised enterprise and leadership. . . The best acknowledgement that we can give Witt's enterprise is to continue to follow along the path marked out by these essays and extend the evolutionary perspective into new channels of economic and social experience.' -- Stan Metcalfe, Journal of Bioeconomics'Together, these papers underline Ulrich Witt's well-deserved status as one of the leading and most innovative of evolutionary economists in the world today. . . The book is a worthy monument to the scientific contribution of its author over a period of seventeen years. It shows a lively, enquiring and evolving mind, from which we expect much in the future.' -- Geoffrey M. Hodgson, Journal of Evolutionary Economics'Economics is more than economising and maximising subject to a fixed-resources constraint. It is also the study of evolutionary processes and innovation-led search. Ulrich Witt musters an extensive knowledge of the economics of development and change in the essays collected together in this book. Building on authors such as Schumpeter and Hayek but contributing his own theoretical insights on biology, games, constitutions, progress, he demonstrates convincingly that economics can be a humanitarian discipline and a kaleidoscope of surprise.' -- David Reisman, University of Surrey, UK and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore'In this collection, we find the germs of an evolutionary theory of economic systems based firmly on the most solid elements of economic theory. This is not short praise, since mainstream economics often ignores issues discussed here. As the articles, due to their topics, have not appeared in large circulation journals so far, this book is a most welcome addition to the library of any scholar grappling with the difficulties of understanding economic change. The book should stimulate the ongoing discussion on issues of transformation, but also, in the context of globalisation, the problems of institutional and system change which this process necessitates.' -- Jurgen G. Backhaus, Erfurt University, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: Preface Part I: Introduction 1. Evolutionary Economics and the Extension of Evolution to the Economy Part II: Evolutionary Concepts and Methodology 2. Emergence and Dissemination of Innovation: Some Principles of Evolutionary Economics 3. Evolutionary Concepts in Economics 4. Coordination of Individual Economic Activities as an Evolving Process of Self-Organization 5. Firms’ Market Behavior Under Imperfect Information and Economic Natural Selection 6. “Lock-in” vs. “Critical Masses” – Industrial Change Under Network Externalities Part III: The Darwinian Perspective and the Continuity Hypothesis 7. Bioeconomics as Economics from a Darwinian Perspective 8. Economics, Sociobiology, and Behavioral Psychology on Preferences 9. Economic Behavior and Biological Evolution: Some Remarks on the Sociobiology Debate 10. Self-Organization and Economics – What is New? Part IV: Evolution in the Context of New Institutional Economics and Public Choice 11. The Evolution of Economic Institutions as a Propagation Process 12. The Endogenous Public Choice Theorist 13. Multiple Equilibria, Critical Masses, and Institutional Change. The Coup d’état Problem 14. Evolution and Stability of Cooperation Without Enforceable Contracts 15. Between Appeasement and Belligerent Moralism: The Evolution of Moral Conduct in International Politics 16. Innovations, Externalities and the Problem of Economic Progress Part V: The Evolutionary Approach and the Austrian School of Economics 17. Subjectivism in Economics – A Suggested Reorientation 18. Endogenous Change – Causes and Contingencies 19. Turning Austrian Economics into an Evolutionary Theory 20. Do Entrepreneurs Need Firms? A Contribution to a Missing Chapter in Austrian Economics Index

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Book SynopsisThis authoritative collection brings together the leading contributions to the comparative study of forms of capitalism. An introductory essay presents the context in which these contributions developed, discusses the major issues raised by such comparative work, and suggests likely future developments.Topics include the major theoretical issues involved in analysing different kinds of market economies; the key frameworks for comparing systems of economic organisation, both historically and between societies; the analysis of the distinctive varieties of industrial capitalism that have developed in the Anglo-Saxon countries, Continental Europe and East Asia and studies of globalisation and the connections between types of market economies and varying forms of economic performance, particularly in terms of sectoral development and technical change. The collection will be an indispensable reference source and will improve access to important papers that may not be available in many libraries.Trade Review‘Competing Capitalisms is a superb collection of many of the most important articles of the last decade on the varieties of capitalism across regions of the industrialized world. Analytically informed, it provides the reader with insights into the sources of both stability and change while recognizing that diversity, if not divergence, is likely to continue to characterize contemporary capitalism.' -- Peter Lange, Duke University, USTable of ContentsContents: Volume I Acknowledgements Introduction The Institutional Structuring of Market Economies Richard Whitley PART I THEORETICAL ISSUES AND PERSPECTIVES 1. Gary G. Hamilton and Robert C. Feenstra (1995), ‘Varieties of Hierarchies and Markets: An Introduction’ 2. Mark Granovetter (1985), ‘Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness’ 3. J. Rogers Hollingsworth and Robert Boyer (1997), ‘Coordination of Economic Actors and Social Systems of Production’ PART II CONTRASTING FORMS OF CAPITALISM 4. David Soskice (1999), ‘Divergent Production Regimes: Coordinated and Uncoordinated Market Economies in the 1980s and 1990s’ 5. Richard Whitley (1999), ‘The Nature of Business Systems and their Institutional Structuring’ 6. William Lazonick (1991), ‘Institutional Foundations of Industrial Dominance and Decline’ 7. Paul Hirst and Jonathan Zeitlin (1991), ‘Flexible Specialization Versus Post-Fordism: Theory, Evidence and Policy Implications’ PART III NATIONAL AND REGIONAL CAPITALISMS – ANGLO-SAXON 8. J. Rogers Hollingsworth (1991), ‘The Logic of Coordinating American Manufacturing Sectors’ 9. Neil Fligstein (1991), ‘The Structural Transformation of American Industry: An Institutional Account of the Causes of Diversification in the Largest Firms, 1919–1979’ 10. Leslie Hannah (1980), ‘Visible and Invisible Hands in Great Britain’ PART IV NATIONAL AND REGIONAL CAPITALISMS - CONTINENTAL EUROPE 11. Marc Maurice, Arndt Sorge and Malcolm Warner (1980), ‘Societal Differences in Organizing Manufacturing Units: A Comparison of France, West Germany, and Great Britain’ 12. Wolfgang Streeck (1997), ‘German Capitalism: Does it Exist? Can it Survive?’ 13. Gary Herrigel (1993), ‘Large Firms, Small Firms, and the Governance of Flexible Specialization: The Case of Baden Württemberg and Socialized Risk’ 14. Peer Hull Kristensen (1996), ‘On the Constitution of Economic Actors in Denmark: Interacting Skill Containers and Project Coordinators’ 15. Robert Boyer (1997), ‘French Statism at the Crossroads’ 16. Carlo Trigilia (1990), ‘Work and Politics in the Third Italy’s Industrial Districts’ Name Index Volume II Acknowledgements An introduction by the editor to both volumes appears in Volume I PART I NATIONAL AND REGIONAL CAPITALISMS – EAST ASIAN 1. Gary G. Hamilton and Nicole Woolsey Biggart (1988), ‘Market, Culture, and Authority: A Comparative Analysis of Management and Organization in the Far East’ 2. Richard D. Whitley (1991), ‘The Social Construction of Business Systems in East Asia’ 3. D. Eleanor Westney (1996), ‘The Japanese Business System: Key Features and Prospects for Changes’ 4. David L. Wank (1999), ‘Producing Property Rights: Strategies, Networks, and Efficiency in Urban China’s Nonstate Firms’ 5. Linda Y.C. Lim (1996), ‘The Evolution of Southeast Asian Business Systems’ PART II GLOBALIZATION, CHANGE AND PERFORMANCE 6. Robert Boyer (1996), ‘The Convergence Hypothesis Revisited: Globalization but Still the Century of Nations?’ 7. Lane Kenworthy (1997), ‘Globalization and Economic Convergence’ 8. Paul N. Doremus, William W. Keller, Louis W. Pauly and Simon Reich (1998), ‘The Strategic Behavior of MNCs’ 9. Richard Whitley (1998), ‘Internationalization and Varieties of Capitalism: The Limited Effects of Cross-national Coordination of Economic Activities on the Nature of Business Systems’ 10. Arndt Sorge (1991), ‘Strategic Fit and the Societal Effect: Interpreting Cross-National Comparisons of Technology, Organization and Human Resources’ 11. J. Rogers Hollingsworth and Wolfgang Streeck (1994), ‘Countries and Sectors: Concluding Remarks on Performance, Convergence, and Competitiveness’ 12. Steven Casper (2000), ‘Institutional Adaptiveness, Technology Policy, and the Diffusion of New Business Models: The Case of German Biotechnology’ 13. Sigrid Quack and Glenn Morgan (2000), ‘Institutions, Sector Specialisation and Economic Performance Outcomes’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisHappiness in Economics presents a selection of the most important economics articles on individuals' subjective well-being. The volume demonstrates that economics is relevant for people's happiness.Part I includes key early papers on happiness and income, determinants of the happiness-income relationship, and policy implications, as well as the Leyden analysis of income norms. Part II contains recent analyses of the determinants of happiness.This fascinating and innovative collection will provide invaluable information and analysis for students, researchers and policymakers.Trade Review'Economic psychologists - in fact all economists - should welcome Richard Easterlin's Happiness in Economics . . . Richard Easterlin is a felicitous choice as editor of this volume. He provides an excellent short introduction, and the readings included are well anchored by this classic 1974 article "Does Economic Growth Improve the Human Lot? Some Empirical Evidence". . . Easterlin's volume should rank high on our list of required readings. The articles he has chosen provide an excellent overview of the subject. What makes a volume of this sort work is the thoughtfulness and discrimination of the editor, and Easterlin is to be congratulated . . . I heartily recommend Happiness in Economics.' -- Alan J. MacFadyen, Journal of Economic Psychology'I am delighted that Professor Easterlin, the most well-known forerunner in the analysis of income and happiness, has assembled a volume comprising excellent contributions in this most important area. As happiness is the ultimate objective of life, the collection deserves the close reading of all students in economics.' -- Yew-Kwang Ng, Monash University, Australia and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore'Richard Easterlin has pioneered the study of happiness in economics. This book assembles an impressive collection of articles. It demonstrates the major insights gained by integrating individuals' subjective satisfaction in order to better understand how the economy works. The study of happiness injects new life into economics.' -- Bruno S. Frey, University of Zurich, Switzerland'If you are on leave for a year, headed for a desert island with space in your boat for only one book, I suggest you take this volume. Its topic matters more than any other in social science. And at last, after three decades, economists are starting to pay attention to Richard Easterlin and the emerging literature on the economics of happiness that he began. This book raises profound issues for western society, where it is going, and what we might be able to do to improve our own and our grandchildren's lives.' -- Andrew Oswald, Warwick University, UKTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction Richard A. Easterlin PART I EARLY CONTRIBUTORS A Happiness and Income 1. Richard A. Easterlin (1974), ‘Does Economic Growth Improve the Human Lot? Some Empirical Evidence’ B Determinants of the Happiness-Income Relationship 2. Jeffrey Friedman and Adam McCabe (1996), ‘Preferences or Happiness? Tibor Scitovsky’s Psychology of Human Needs’ 3. Tibor Scitovsky (1996), ‘My Own Criticism of The Joyless Economy’ 4. Yew-Kwang Ng (1978), ‘Economic Growth and Social Welfare: The Need for a Complete Study of Happiness’ C Policy Implications 5. Robert H. Frank (1997), ‘The Frame of Reference as a Public Good’ 6. R. Layard (1980), ‘Human Satisfactions and Public Policy’ D The Leyden Analysis of Income Norms 7. Bernard M.S. van Praag and Paul Frijters (1999), ‘The Measurement of Welfare and Well-Being: The Leyden Approach’ 8. Huib van de Stadt, Arie Kapteyn and Sara van de Geer (1985), ‘The Relativity of Utility: Evidence from Panel Data’ 9. Arie Kapteyn (2001), ‘Relative Utility and Income Growth: An Example’ PART II RECENT CONTRIBUTIONS: THE DETERMINANTS OF HAPPINESS 10. Andrew J. Oswald (1997), ‘Happiness and Economic Performance’ 11. Andrew E. Clark and Andrew J. Oswald (1994), ‘Unhappiness and Unemployment’ 12. Rafael Di Tella, Robert J. MacCulloch and Andrew J. Oswald (2001), ‘Preferences over Inflation and Unemployment: Evidence from Surveys of Happiness’ 13. Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer (2000), ‘Happiness, Economy and Institutions’ 14. Richard A. Easterlin (2001), ‘Income and Happiness: Towards a Unified Theory’ 15. Amartya Sen (1996), ‘Rationality, Joy and Freedom’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisThis important collection examines the subject of cognitive economics - an interdisciplinary approach to the study of human problem solving, choice, decision making and change which explains economic transactions and the nature and evolution of organisations and institutions in an environment of structural uncertainty, scarcity and incentives.Cognitive economics is strongly linked with many other disciplines concerning choice, such as cognitive psychology, artificial intelligence, philosophy, and the science of administration. This new approach is contributing to a wide range of economic fields such as consumer theory, economics of the firm, economics of innovation and evolutionary economics.These path-breaking volumes will be an indispensable tool for new research in the field of cognitive economics, and of particular interest to scholars of economics, psychology and philosophy.Trade Review'Economists have learned a great deal through the use of the optimising rationality paradigm (including quite a few things that ain't so). As the realization spreads that its usefulness has been pretty much exhausted, economists find themselves at long last turning to the study of how decisions are actually made. Cognitive economics is coming to the forefront. The two splendid volumes edited by Egidi and Rizzello not only collect the essential classics but also survey the present state of the field. The collection is especially valuable in its stress on the role of institutions in shaping what people learn (and what they retain) from experience. Cognitive economics carries the promise also of revitalising institutional economics.' -- Axel Leijonhufvud, University of Trento, ItalyTable of ContentsContents: Volume I Acknowledgements Introduction Massimo Egidi and Salvatore Rizzello PART I FORERUNNERS 1. Alfred Marshall (1867–8), ‘Ye Machine’, in Tizziano Raffaelli (1994), ‘Alfred Marshall’s Early Philosophical Writings’ 2. Carl Menger ([1963] 1985), ‘The Analogy Between Social Phenomena and Natural Organisms: Its Limits, and the Methodological Points of View for Social Research Resulting Therefrom’ 3. T.B. Veblen (1884), ‘Kant’s Critique of Judgment’ PART II SUBJECTIVISM, PERCEPTION, KNOWLEDGE 4. Michael Polanyi ([1958] 1973), ‘Articulation’ 5. Gary T. Dempsey (1996), ‘Hayek’s Terra Incognita of the Mind’ 6. Bruce Caldwell (1994), ‘Hayek’s Scientific Subjectivism’ 7. Barry Smith (1997), ‘The Connectionist Mind: A Study of Hayekian Psychology’ 8. Walter B. Weimer (1982), ‘Hayek’s Approach to the Problems of Complex Phenomena: An Introduction to the Theoretical Psychology of The Sensory Order’ 9. Gerald P. O’Driscoll, Jr. and Mario J. Rizzo (1985), ‘Knowledge and Decisions’ PART III MICROFOUNDATIONS AND DECISION MAKING 10. Herbert A. Simon (1997), ‘Rationality in Decision Making’ 11. Herbert A. Simon (1959), ‘Theories of Decision-Making in Economics and Behavioral Science’ 12. Herbert A. Simon (1972), ‘Theories of Bounded Rationality’ 13. Herbert A. Simon (1976), ‘From Substantive to Procedural Rationality’ 14. Maurice Allais ([1952] 1979), ‘The Foundations of a Positive Theory of Choice Involving Risk and a Criticism of the Postulates and Axioms of the American School’ and Table of Contents to ‘The So-Called Allais Paradox and Rational Decisions under Uncertainty’ 15. Herbert A. Simon and Allen Newell (1958), ‘Heuristic Problem Solving: The Next Advance in Operations Research’ 16. Allen Newell, J.C. Shaw and H.A. Simon (1958), ‘Chess-Playing Programs and the Problem of Complexity’ 17. Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky (1979), ‘Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision under Risk’ 18. Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman (1986), ‘Rational Choice and the Framing of Decisions’ 19. Bernard Walliser (1989), ‘Instrumental Rationality and Cognitive Rationality’ 20. Daniel Kahneman ([1994] 2000), ‘New Challenges to the Rationality Assumption’ 21. Herbert A. Simon (2000), ‘Bounded Rationality in Social Science: Today and Tomorrow’ Name Index Volume II Acknowledgements An introduction by the editors to both volumes appears in Volume I PART I ORGANIZATIONS AND TEAM DECISION MAKING 1. Kenneth E. Boulding (1956), ‘The Image in the Theory of Organization’ 2. James G. March and Herbert A. Simon (1958), ‘Cognitive Limits on Rationality’ 3. Michael Polanyi ([1958] 1973), ‘Skills’ 4. James G. March (1991), ‘Exploration and Exploitation in Organizational Learning’ 5. James G. March (1991), ‘How Decisions Happen in Organizations’ 6. Richard R. Nelson and Sidney G. Winter (1982), ‘Skills’ and ‘Organizational Capabilities and Behavior’ 7. Michael D. Cohen and Paul Bacdayan (1994), ‘Organizational Routines Are Stored as Procedural Memory: Evidence from a Laboratory Study’ 8. Michael D. Cohen, Roger Burkhart, Giovanni Dosi, Massimo Egidi, Luigi Marengo, Massimo Warglien and Sidney Winter (1996), ‘Routines and Other Recurring Action Patterns of Organizations: Contemporary Research Issues’ 9. Massimo Egidi and Alessandro Narduzzo (1997), ‘The Emergence of Path-dependent Behaviors in Cooperative Contexts’ PART II CHANGE AND EVOLUTION 10. Stan Metcalfe (1989), ‘Evolution and Economic Change’ 11. John Foster (1993), ‘Economics and the Self-Organisation Approach: Alfred Marshall Revisited?’ 12. Ulrich Witt (1995), ‘Schumpeter vs. Hayek: Two Approaches to Evolutionary Economics’ 13. Massimo Egidi (1996), ‘“Creative Destruction” in Economic and Political Institutions’ 14. Ulrich Witt (1997), ‘Self-organization and Economics – What is New?’ 15. John Foster (1997), ‘The Analytical Foundations of Evolutionary Economics: From Biological Analogy to Economic Self-organization’ 16. Ulrich Witt (1998), ‘Imagination and Leadership – The Neglected Dimension of an Evolutionary Theory of the Firm’ 17. Salvatore Rizzello (2000), ‘Economic Change, Subjective Perception and Institutional Evolution’ PART III INSTITUTIONS 18. Richard N. Langlois (1986), ‘Rationality, Institutions, and Explanation’ 19. Richard N. Langlois (1985), ‘Knowledge and Rationality in the Austrian School: An Analytical Survey’ 20. Richard N. Langlois (1998), ‘Rule-Following, Expertise and Rationality: A New Behavioral Economics?’ 21. Douglass C. North (1990), ‘Organizations, Learning, and Institutional Change’, ‘Stability and Institutional Change’, ‘The Path of Institutional Change’ and ‘Institutions, Economic Theory, and Economic Performance’ 22. Arthur T. Denzau and Douglass C. North (1994), ‘Shared Mental Models: Ideologies and Institutions’ 23. Salvatore Rizzello and Margherita Turvani (2000), ‘Institutions Meet Mind: The Way out of an Impasse’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisThe Elgar Companion to Feminist Economics is the first comprehensive reference work introducing readers to the field of feminist economics. It includes 99 entries by 88 authors.This authoritative volume includes timely entries addressing key concepts in feminist economics as well as feminist economic critiques and reconstructions of major economic theories and policy debates. The material is presented in an accessible manner and will be of interest to scholars and teachers from across the social sciences.The Elgar Companion to Feminist Economics will become an indispensable resource for scholars and teachers interested in exploring this emerging and evolving field of inquiry.Trade Review'The Elgar Companion to Feminist Economics provides an overview of feminist economic concepts on which is is difficult to find information in a succinct format. The minimal use of technical language makes the book accessible to a broad audience of individuals from a variety of disciplines. This book can be considered a mini-encyclopedia on feminist economics that individuals can use as their first step into topics of interest. . . Peterson and Lewis should be applauded on their addition to this ever-advancing school of economic thought.'

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Book SynopsisThe behaviour of long term, secular trends and shorter run, business cycle, movements in economic data have long been a concern of economists, statisticians and econometricians. The isolation and interpretation of cyclical movements was the basis for early empirical work in economics, while the early dynamic models were constructed to reproduce cyclical fluctuations. The first econometric models analysed the cyclical path of economies, while focusing attention on the processes that generate trends in economic variables has led to the recent revolution in time series econometrics.Long Term Trends and Business Cycles brings together the key contributions in these various areas and comprises 54 papers published from 1923 to 1999. It will be of interest to economists and econometricians engaged in the analysis of macroeconomic time series.Trade Review'Understanding business cycle fluctuations in market economies has long been a central concern of economics. The study of long term trends and business cycles and the extent to which they can be usefully separated has absorbed the energies of our best statisticians, econometricians and economists for at least the last 100 years. The readings in these two volumes provide an excellent map to explore a field that continues to expand rapidly. It covers the early largely statistical approaches, through to the Cowles Commission and NBER approaches and on to the real business cycle literature of the last 15 years. An essential reference for any serious student of macroeconomics.' -- Sean Holly, University of Cambridge, UKTable of ContentsContents: Volume I Acknowledgements Introduction Terence C. Mills PART I FIRST ATTEMPTS AT MEASURING BUSINESS CYCLES 1. Joseph Kitchin (1923), ‘Cycles and Trends in Economic Factors’ 2. Edwin Frickey (1934), ‘The Problem of Secular Trend’ 3. Joseph A. Schumpeter (1935), ‘The Analysis of Economic Change’ PART II TRADITIONAL BUSINESS CYCLE THEORIES 4. Paul A. Samuelson (1939), ‘Interactions Between the Multiplier Analysis and the Principle of Acceleration’ 5. Nicholas Kaldor (1940), ‘A Model of the Trade Cycle’ 6. Lloyd A. Metzler (1941), ‘The Nature and Stability of Inventory Cycles’ PART III SCEPTICAL VIEWS ABOUT BUSINESS CYCLES AND EARLY EMPIRICAL METHODS 7. Irving Fisher (1925), ‘Our Unstable Dollar and the So-called Business Cycle’ 8. Simon Kuznets (1929), ‘Random Events and Cyclical Oscillations’ 9. J.M. Keynes (1939), ‘Professor Tinbergen’s Method’ 10. Jan Tinbergen (1940), ‘On a Method of Statistical Business-Cycle Research. A Reply’ 11. J. Tinbergen (1942), ‘Critical Remarks on Some Business-cycle Theories’ 12. Trygve Haavelmo (1943), ‘Statistical Testing of Business-cycle Theories’ PART IV MEASUREMENT WITHOUT THEORY DEBATE 13. Tjalling C. Koopmans (1947), ‘Measurement Without Theory’ 14. Edward Ames (1948), ‘A Theoretical and Statistical Dilemma – The Contribution of Burns, Mitchell, and Frickey to Business-cycle Theory’ 15. Rutledge Vining and Tjalling C. Koopmans (1949), ‘Methodological Issues in Quantitative Economics’ 16. Milton Friedman (1950), ‘Wesley C. Mitchell as an Economic Theorist’ PART V INTERACTIONS BETWEEN TRENDS AND CYCLES 17. Nicholas Kaldor (1954), ‘The Relation of Economic Growth and Cyclical Fluctuations’ 18. B. Higgins (1955), ‘Interactions of Cycles and Trends’ PART VI MODERN BUSINESS CYCLE THEORIES 19. Victor Zarnowitz (1985), ‘Recent Work on Business Cycles in Historical Perspective: A Review of Theories and Evidence’ 20. William D. Nordhaus (1975), ‘The Political Business Cycle’ 21. Robert E. Lucas, Jr. (1975), ‘An Equilibrium Model of the Business Cycle’ 22. Finn E. Kydland and Edward C. Prescott (1982), ‘Time to Build and Aggregate Fluctuations’ 23. John B. Long, Jr. and Charles I. Plosser (1983), ‘Real Business Cycles’ 24. Michael Wickens (1995), ‘Real Business Cycle Analysis: A Needed Revolution in Macroeconometrics’ 25. Francis X. Diebold and Glenn D. Rudebusch (1996), ‘Measuring Business Cycles: A Modern Perspective’ 26. Jeffrey A. Miron and J. Joseph Beaulieu (1996), ‘What Have Macroeconomists Learned About Business Cycles from the Study of Seasonal Cycles?’ PART VII NONLINEAR AND DURATION MODELS OF THE BUSINESS CYCLE 27. Hal R. Varian (1979), ‘Catastrophe Theory and the Business Cycle’ 28. James H. Stock (1987), ‘Measuring Business Cycle Time’ 29. Salih N. Neftçi (1984), ‘Are Economic Time Series Asymmetric over the Business Cycle?’ 30. William A. Brock and Chera L. Sayers (1988), ‘Is the Business Cycle Characterized by Deterministic Chaos?’ 31. Francis X. Diebold and Glenn D. Rudebusch (1990), ‘A Nonparametric Investigation of Duration Dependence in the American Business Cycle’ Name Index Volume II Acknowledgements An introduction by the editor to both volumes appears in Volume I PART I DATING BUSINESS CYCLE TURNING POINTS 1. George W. Cloos (1963), ‘How Good Are the National Bureau’s Reference Dates?’ 2. Victor Zarnowitz (1963), ‘On the Dating of Business Cycles’ 3. Michael D. Boldin (1994), ‘Dating Turning Points in the Business Cycle’ 4. Michael J. Artis, Zenon G. Kontolemis and Denise R. Osborn (1997), ‘Business Cycles for G7 and European Countries’ PART II MODELLING TRENDS AND CYCLES IN ECONOMIC TIME SERIES 5. L.R. Klein and R.F. Kosobud (1961), ‘Some Econometrics of Growth: Great Ratios of Economics’ 6. Stephen Beveridge and Charles R. Nelson (1981), ‘A New Approach to Decomposition of Economic Time Series Into Permanent and Transitory Components with Particular Attention to Measurement of the "Business Cycle"’ 7. Charles R. Nelson and Charles I. Plosser (1982), ‘Trends and Random Walks in Macroeconomic Time Series: Some Evidence and Implications’ 8. A.C. Harvey (1985), ‘Trends and Cycles in Macroeconomic Time Series’ 9. James H. Stock and Mark W. Watson (1988), ‘Variable Trends in Economic Time Series’ 10. John H. Cochrane (1988), ‘How Big Is the Random Walk in GNP?’ 11. Robert G. King, Charles I. Plosser, James H. Stock and Mark W. Watson (1991), ‘Stochastic Trends and Economic Fluctuations’ 12. Pierre Perron (1989), ‘The Great Crash, the Oil Price Shock, and the Unit Root Hypothesis’ 13. Nathan S. Balke and Thomas B. Fomby (1991), ‘Shifting Trends, Segmented Trends, and Infrequent Permanent Shocks’ 14. F. Vahid and R.F. Engle (1993), ‘Common Trends and Common Cycles’ PART III DETRENDING ECONOMIC TIME SERIES 15. Mark W. Watson (1986), ‘Univariate Detrending Methods with Stochastic Trends’, Journal of Monetary Economics, 18 (1), July, 49-75 [27] 16. Robert J. Hodrick and Edward C. Prescott (1997), ‘Postwar U.S. Business Cycles: An Empirical Investigation’ 17. Timothy Cogley and James M. Nason (1995), ‘Effects of the Hodrick-Prescott Filter on Trend and Difference Stationary Time Series: Implications for Business Cycle Research’ 18. Marianne Baxter and Robert G. King (1999), ‘Measuring Business Cycles: Approximate Band-pass Filters for Economic Time Series’ 19. Fabio Canova (1998), ‘Detrending and Business Cycle Facts’ 20. Craig Burnside (1998), ‘Detrending and Business Cycle Facts: A Comment’ PART IV HISTORICAL EXAMINATIONS OF TRENDS AND CYCLES 21. Terence C. Mills and N.F.R. Crafts (1996), ‘Trend Growth in British Industrial Output, 1700–1913: A Reappraisal’ 22. Milton Friedman and Anna J. Schwartz (1963), ‘Money and Business Cycles’ 23. Christina D. Romer (1994), ‘Remeasuring Business Cycles’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisThis book unites diverse heterodox traditions in the study of endogenous money - which until now have been confined to their own academic quarters - and explores their similarities and differences from both sides of the Atlantic.Bringing together perspectives from post-Keynesians, Circuitists and the Dijon School, the book continues the tradition of Keynes's and Kalecki's analysis of a monetary production economy, emphasising the similarities between the various approaches, and expanding the analytical breadth of the theory of endogenous money. The authors open new avenues for monetary research in order to fuel a renewed interest in the nature and role of money in capitalist economies, which is, the authors argue, one of the most controversial, and therefore fascinating, areas of economics.Providing new theoretical and empirical grounds for the construction of a general, policy oriented theory of money, this thought-provoking collection will appeal to academics, researchers and students interested in monetary economics. It will also be welcomed by monetary policymakers and central bank officials.Trade Review'This is a timely book. Being on modern theories of money - essentially the study of traditions of endogenous money - it is a welcome contribution to current thinking on monetary policy. The modern central bank view on money is that the rate of interest should be manipulated by central banks to achieve an inflation target with the money supply being the "residual". Although money is in effect endogenous, there is no theory that explains its behaviour. Modern Theories of Money is a serious attempt to sharpen existing views on the issue and fill gaps in an admirable manner.' -- Philip Arestis, University of Cambridge, UK and Levy Economics Institute, US'One dimension of Keynes's revolution was his insistence that money and finance must be integrated with real factors right from the start of analysis. This collection fits centrally in this tradition, as well as in the post-Keynesian approach which combines the insights of the classical political economists Marx and Sraffa with those of Keynes, Kalecki, and Pasinetti.' -- G.C. Harcourt, University of New South Wales, Australia'Contemporary orthodox economic theory notoriously lacks a viable theory of money, and hence has no means of understanding the role and significance of this key social institution within capitalism. Fortunately, there are now a number of promising heterodox theories of money that may ultimately succeed in filling the gap. Louis-Philippe Rochon and Sergio Rossi have provided an invaluable service to the economics profession in making available this collection of essays on modern monetary theories, including contributions by many of the most interesting writers in the field.' -- John Smithin, York University, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: The Post Keynesian Monetary Approach Part II: The Theory of the Monetary Circuit Part III: The Theory of Money Emissions Part IV: Further Contributions to Monetary Analysis Index

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Book SynopsisThe Economics of Scientific Knowledge demonstrates how contemporary economic theories, such as rational choice theory, public choice theory, game theory, and neo-institutionalist economics can be successfully applied to resolve the issues currently existing in science studies and science and technology policy. Yanfei Shi criticizes the sociology of scientific knowledge and the traditional philosophy of science for their failures in justifying science as a rational enterprise. From an economic perspective, he explains why scientific enterprise as a public good is possible if individual scientists are self-interested and presents a new and convincing story of how scientific knowledge is produced in the contemporary society. With professional experience as a policy analyst, Yanfei Shi's economic perspective on scientists and their behaviors, and his institutional analysis will have great implications to the current discussions on science and innovation policy issues. Scholars and students in the fields of economics, philosophy and sociology as well as scientists, administrators and policy analysts will find this book a welcome addition to the literature of the increasingly important field of science studies.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. Toward a Rational Choice Approach to Science: A Theoretical Framework 2. The Scientist as a Scientific Entrepreneur 3. The Scientist as a Scientific Consumer 4. The Scientific Community as an Exchange Organization 5. Towards an Institutional Analysis of Science: A Research Agenda 6. The Distributive Rules of Science 7. The Constitutional Rules of Science 8. The Aggregative Rules of Science Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis ground-breaking book focuses on the implications of the complexity vision, such as that held by economists at the Santa Fe Institute, for the teaching of economics. This complexity vision suggests that answers to questions such as how do markets develop and how do they evolve need to be approached head on. Complexity economics is beginning to do just that. Most of the work in complexity is highly formal and technical; it seems far away from issues such as the teaching of economics. This book is different. The focus of this book is not on the grand theories, or technical aspects, of complexity. Instead it is on the teaching of economics. It asks the question: how would the teaching of economics change if complexity is taken seriously? An outstanding group of contributors, including Brian Arthur, Buz Brock, and Duncan Foley, provide interesting and provocative answers to that question in a non-technical and highly accessible style. It is a book that should be read by all those teaching economics, as well as those who are interested in where the complexity revolution in science might be leading.Trade Review'This book is an impressive collection of essays. . . this is an interesting and challenging book, of interest both to those who want an introduction to the ideas from complexity theory and those who reflect generally on the teaching and future development of economics as a subject.' -- Geoffrey M. Hodgson, Review of Social Economy'It is in the real world where the action is; and if we want to interest students in economics, and make economics more relevant, the teaching of economics must reflect the real world, not abstract deductive models that lead nowhere fast, and may lead nowhere slowly.' -- From the introduction by David ColanderTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: The Complexity Vision and Economics Part II: The Complexity Vision and Economic Policy Part III: Teaching the Complexity Vision in Economics: General Part IV: Teaching the Complexity Vision in Economics: Specifics Part V: Bioeconomics, Complexity and the Teaching of Economics

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Book SynopsisFew social scientific concepts have gathered so much attention and so many followers in such a short period of time as the concept of social capital. The purpose of this authoritative volume is to review the foundations for this fast growing field.The selected articles embed the concept in core theoretical work in economics, political science, sociology, development theory, and philosophy. Topics include: contemporary conceptual and philosophical foundations; forms of social capital; and the relation of social capital to both development and democracy.This collection will provide an insightful reference source to students and researchers alike.Trade Review'Ostrom and Ahn do us the great service of bringing together a varied, rich array of central works on social capital, many of which have been relatively inaccessible. The idea of social capital is still very much a work in progress, as these contributions from a broad array of disciplines demonstrate. Having this collection available will help focus further development of that idea.' -- Russell Hardin, New York University and Stanford University, US'As theoretical paradigms develop, there comes a time when they need careful synthesis, deep reflection and wise criticism. It is now that time for the arguments regarding social capital. Political scientists are fortunate that a scholar as pre-eminent as Elinor Ostrom, and her able student T.K. Ahn, have taken the lead in undertaking this task. They have pulled together a fine collection of essays and added an insightful and pedagogically sound overview. The collection is likely to find its place in the book bags of all scholars concerned with the contributions of this literature to our discipline.' -- Joe Oppenheimer, University of Maryland, College Park, USTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction Elinor Ostrom and T.K. Ahn PART I FORERUNNERS 1. Alexis de Tocqueville ([1840] 1945), ‘Of the Use Which the Americans Make of Public Associations in Civil Life’, ‘Of the Relation between Public Associations and the Newspapers’, ‘Relation of Civil to Political Associations’, and ‘How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understood’ 2. Lyda Judson Hanifan (1920), ‘Social Capital – Its Development and Use’ 3. Theodore W. Schultz (1961), ‘Investment in Human Capital’ 4. Jane Jacobs (1961), ‘The Uses of City Neighborhoods’ PART II CONTEMPORARY CONCEPTUAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS 5. Mark S. Granovetter (1973), ‘The Strength of Weak Ties’ 6. Mark Granovetter (1985), ‘Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness’ 7. James S. Coleman (1987), ‘Norms as Social Capital’ 8. James S. Coleman (1988), ‘Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital’ 9. Vincent Ostrom (1980), ‘Artisanship and Artifact’ PART III FORMS OF SOCIAL CAPITAL 10. Ronald S. Burt (1992), excerpt from ‘The Social Structure of Competition’ 11. Robert D. Putnam, Robert Leonardi and Raffaella Y. Nanetti (1993), ‘Social Capital and Institutional Success’ 12. Elinor Ostrom (1992), ‘Institutions as Rules-in-Use’ 13. Diego Gambetta (2000), ‘Can We Trust Trust?’ 14. Francis Fukuyama (2000), Social Capital and Civil Society 15. Partha Dasgupta (2002), ‘Social Capital and Economic Performance: Analytics’ [Revised and abridged version of: Partha Dasgupta (2000), ‘Economic Progress and the Idea of Social Capital’ PART IV SOCIAL CAPITAL AND DEVELOPMENT 16. Michael Woolcock (1998), ‘Social Capital and Economic Development: Toward a Theoretical Synthesis and Policy Framework’ 17. Francis Fukuyama (1995), ‘Social Capital and the Global Economy’ 18. Michael Woolcock and Deepa Narayan (2000), ‘Social Capital: Implications for Development Theory, Research, and Policy’ 19. Paul Collier and Jan Willem Gunning (1999), ‘Explaining African Economic Performance’ 20. Stephen Knack and Philip Keefer (1997), ‘Does Social Capital Have an Economic Payoff? A Cross-Country Investigation’ PART V SOCIAL CAPITAL AND DEMOCRACY 21. Robert D. Putnam (1993), ‘The Prosperous Community: Social Capital and Public Life’ 22. Robert D. Putnam (1995), ‘Tuning In, Tuning Out: The Strange Disappearance of Social Capital in America’ 23. John Brehm and Wendy Rahn (1997), ‘Individual-Level Evidence for the Causes and Consequences of Social Capital’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisThis influential volume, which has been revised and updated for the twenty-first century, includes both new material and more detailed expositions of existing arguments.Although so-called 'real' theories of business cycles and growth are prevalent in contemporary mainstream economics, Controversies in Monetary Economics suggests that those economists who have instinctively focused on monetary factors in explaining macroeconomic behaviour are more genuinely 'realistic'. The author combines an explanation of past and present monetary controversy with practical proposals for the conduct of monetary policy in the contemporary global economy. Several alternative approaches are discussed, ranging from the traditional quantity theory to post Keynesian theories of endogenous money.This insightful book will be of interest to all those concerned with monetary economics and macroeconomics, including academic researchers, graduate and senior undergraduate students - particularly those looking for an alternative to current economic orthodoxy - and historians of economic thought. Practitioners in central banks, international financial institutions, the financial markets and finance ministries will also find this work invaluable.Trade Review'John Smithin's erudite and eloquent Controversies in Monetary Economics (now in a revised second edition) reminds us that a cashless economy is by no means a moneyless economy. Drawing on Keynes's concept of monetary production and on the later work of Sir John Hicks, Smithin argues persuasively for the continuing central importance of money in understanding interest rate determination and economic fluctuations. This insightful book illuminates the role of monetary policy, notably within the European Monetary Union.' -- Robert W. Dimand, Brock University, Canada'This book provides an excellent overview of the controversies that have driven debate about monetary theory and policy over the last two centuries. I highly recommend the book for use in advanced undergraduate or graduate courses. This new edition revises and updates some of the arguments, with some additional treatment of orthodoxy so that it can serve as a stand-alone text in monetary theory courses.' -- L. Randall Wray, University of Missouri, US'John Smithin is one of the deepest thinkers writing today about monetary matters in modern economics. Not only has he a thorough and full knowledge of past contributions, he is also an original thinker in his own right. The processes he depicts at work in modern economies are immediately recognisable and make good sense. He allies his theoretical understanding with advocacy of wise and humane policies. In John Smithin's writings the spirits of Keynes and Hicks live on, with also, dare I say it, the insights of Marx about the relationship between the real and the monetary in capitalism. Any student brought up on Smithin's clear and lucid accounts of controversies in monetary economics will have a firm grounding on which to base their understanding of the world around them.' -- G.C. Harcourt, University of New South Wales, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: Preface to the Revised Edition 1. Money and Economic Theory and Policy 2. The Nature and Functions of Money: A Re-Examination 3. Monetarism and the Quantity Theory of Money 4. Short-Run Non-Neutralities, Nominal Rigidities, Misperceptions and the Concept of the Phillips Curve 5. The Real Bills Doctrine, Interest Rate Pegging and Endogenous Money 6. Money, Interest Rates and Output 7. An Alternative Monetary Model of Inflation and Economic Growth 8. The International Economy and Alternative Exchange Rate Regimes 9. Inflation and the Economy 10. Concluding Remarks Index

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Book SynopsisThis two volume set critiques an oft neglected area of study. The readings on "Historical Relationships" highlight the divorce between economic analysis and theology that occurred very early in the development of the discipline, and which now seems impossible to bridge. A second selection of readings reflects the critique of economic analysis from a theological perspective that has been developed mainly in the last of the 20th century.Trade Review’Oslington provides an excellent introductory overview of the field that also discusses other relevant but excluded research. . . this is a valuable collection of papers that demonstrates that both studies of religious behaviour and the impact of religion have long preoccupied economists and, since the 1970s, are increasingly entering the mainstream with a fertile research agenda. . . these volumes provide a useful resource and it may not be too long before a third volume is required to keep pace with the explosion of research in the field.’ -- Ian Smith, Economic Record’Economics and Religion is a pioneering work aimed at collecting important contributions to the analysis of the interaction between religion, Christianity, and economics.’ -- Francis Woehrling, Faith & Economics’. . . both Paul Oslington and Edward Elgar Publishing are to be congratulated for producing such an excellent contribution to intellectual history, the history of economic thought, theology and religious studies. The relationships between economics and religion are highly relevant to serious students of the history of economic thought.’ -- James E. Alvey, History of Economics Review’Paul Oslington has made a valuable contribution to both the secular and religious fields. His volumes bring together a range of recent academic thinking about the relations between religion and economics as it has occurred in the past and exists currently. The selection is judicious and timely, encompassing particular viewpoints with pertinent criticisms of them, a hallmark of appropriate academic practice. The two volumes are likely to become a standard reference work for the field.’ -- Clive Beed, Economic Record’. . . a rich selection of work at the intersection of economics and religion. Paul Oslington, the editor, and Edward Elgar, the publisher, have done a real service in bringing this work together in one place.’ -- Andrew M. Yuengert, Journal of Markets and Morality’At some time or other, most thoughtful Christians will have wondered about the relationship between economics and theology. . . The collection of readings obtained in Paul Oslington’s Economics and Religion admirably covers many issues at the interface. . . The selection of material, some of which has been difficult to obtain, has drawn deserved praise from eminent scholars in Australia, the UK and the US.’ -- Centre for Apologetic Scholarship and Education’Anyone teaching a course on economics and Christian belief or wanting to have something to hand to which to point inquisitive students (and hopefully colleagues) may well want to recommend this collection to their librarian. . . A collection such as this is long overdue. . . Paul Oslington has gone out of his way to pull in some excellent but little read material. These volumes provide an excellent starting point for the academic or student setting out to understand the nature of the discourse between economics and theology. There was much in here with which I was not familiar and so it has been a welcome discovery.’ -- Andrew Henley, Association of Christian Economists Journal’Ever since Adam Smith, religion and economics have been interwoven. This unique collection takes the reader from Smith right up to the present day and provides a fascinating survey for experts and non-experts alike. Highly recommended.’ -- Kim Hawtrey, Macquarie University, Australia’Economists and calculators are beginning - just beginning - to acknowledge the transcendent. Economics and Religion is a landmark on a spiritual journey. The long road from St Thomas through the Blessed A. Smith, so long diverted by the anti-Christ Jeremy Bentham, is taken up again in these volumes. They should be owned by every serious library, whether a library of God or of Mammon. It will not perhaps surprise people that economists have something to say about the economics of religion, since economists believe they have something to say about everything; what is surprising is that religion has something to say about economics.’ -- Deirdre N. McCloskey, University of Illinois at Chicago, US’Paul Oslington has done a magnificent job in tracking down the papers and extracts from books reprinted in Economics and Religion. No longer will those who work in the field have to chase difficult-to-locate journals or books that are out of print. More than that, the selection indicates that this is an extremely lively and eclectic area of study, not deserving the benign neglect shown by most mainstream economists. The readings on ‘Historical Relationships’ highlight the divorce between economic analysis and theology that occurred very early in the development of the discipline, and which now seems impossible to bridge. A second selection of readings reflects the critique of economic analysis from a theological perspective that has been developed mainly in the last 25 years. And a third set of readings picks up on the economic analysis of religion that has come mainly from the Chicago School in recent years. The selections indicated Oslington’s mastery of the field: it would not be possible to find a better guide.’ -- Donald Hay, Oxford University, UK’Paul Oslington has done a simply marvellous job in pulling together the various bits of writing on the relation between economics and religion. The collection might surprise quite a few, who might have expected this area to be a trifle thin. In fact, the range and quality of these pieces should impress and delight everyone - including all such sceptics. Ranging across the history of thought, “economic theology”, ethics, methodology, and the application of economics to the study of religious behaviour, these are indeed rich pickings. It is a fascinating collection, taken from a surprisingly rich vein. Well done, Paul Oslington! And well done, Edward Elgar!’ -- Geoffrey Brennan, Australian National University’Paul Oslington has gathered together a wide-ranging selection of important articles on the too often neglected links between economics and religion. This is an important service both to the profession and to all those concerned with the philosophical and moral foundations of economics and the economy. The volumes deserve to be widely read.’ -- G.C. Harcourt, University of New South Wales, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: Volume I Acknowledgements Introduction Paul Oslington PART I HISTORICAL RELATIONSHIPS 1. Barry Gordon (1994), ‘Theological Positions and Economic Perspectives in Ancient Literature’ 2. Bruce J. Malina (1997), ‘Embedded Economics: The Irrelevance of Christian Fictive Domestic Economy’ 3. Jacob Viner (1978), ‘Religious Thought and Economic Society: Four Chapters of an Unfinished Work’ 4. Jacob Viner (1972), ‘The Invisible Hand and Economic Man’ 5. John Milbank (1990), ‘Political Economy as Theodicy and Agnostics’ 6. Emma Rothschild (1994), ‘Adam Smith and the Invisible Hand’ 7. Lisa Hill (2001), ‘The Hidden Theology of Adam Smith’ 8. A.M.C. Waterman (2002), ‘Economics as Theology: Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations’ 9. Gary M. Anderson (1988), ‘Mr. Smith and the Preachers: The Economics of Religion in the Wealth of Nations’ 10. Charles G. Leathers and J. Patrick Raines (1992), ‘Adam Smith on Competitive Religious Markets’ 11. J.M. Pullen (1981), ‘Malthus’ Theological Ideas and their Influence on his Principle of Population’ 12. Boyd Hilton (1985), ‘Chalmers as Political Economist’ 13. A.M.C. Waterman (2001), ‘The Beginning of “Boundaries”: The Sudden Separation of Economics from Christian Theology’ 14. Edward Norman (1987), ‘Introduction’ and ‘The Contribution’ 15. Rodger Charles S.J. (1998), ‘A Summary of Christian Social Teaching’ 16. Bradley W. Bateman and Ethan B. Kapstein (1999), ‘Between God and the Market: The Religious Roots of the American Economic Association’ 17. Robert H. Nelson (1993), ‘The Theological Meaning of Economics’ Name Index Volume II Acknowledgements An introduction by the editor to both volumes appears in Volume I PART I RELIGIOUS ECONOMICS AND ITS CRITICS A Christianity 1. Kenneth E. Boulding ([1950] 1968), ‘Religious Perspectives in Economics’ 2. D.L. Munby (1956), ‘Christians and Economic Problems’ 3. Frank H. Knight (1939), ‘Ethics and Economic Reform: III. Christianity’ 4. A.B. Cramp (1982), ‘Preface’ and ‘Naturalism: The World-view of Modern Economics’ 5. Douglas Vickers (1991), ‘Theology and the Last of the Economists’ 6. Donald A. Hay (1989), ‘Christianity and Economics: Biblical Foundations’, ‘Christianity and Economics: Theological Ethics’ and ‘Postscript’ 7. Kim Hawtrey (1986), ‘Evangelicals and Economics’ 8. Clive Beed and Cara Beed (1996), ‘A Christian Perspective on Economics’ 9. Michael Novak (1982), ‘A Theology of Democratic Capitalism’ 10. John P. Tiemstra (1994), ‘What Should Christian Economists Do? Doing Economics, But Differently’ 11. Paul Heyne (1994), ‘Passing Judgments’ 12. J. David Richardson (1994), ‘What Should (Christian) Economists Do?...Economics!’ [Originally published as ‘Frontiers in Economics and Christian Scholarship’] B Islam 13. Timur Kuran (1995), ‘Islamic Economics and the Islamic Subeconomy’ C Judaism 14. Jacob Neusner (1990), ‘The Economics of Judaism’ PART II ECONOMICS OF RELIGION 15. Corry Azzi and Ronald Ehrenberg (1975), ‘Household Allocation of Time and Church Attendance’ 16. Ronald G. Ehrenberg (1977), ‘Household Allocation of Time and Religiosity: Replication and Extension’ 17. Robert B. Ekelund, Jr., Robert F. Hébert and Robert D. Tollison (1989), ‘An Economic Model of the Medieval Church: Usury as a Form of Rent Seeking’ 18. Robert B. Ekelund, Jr., Robert F. Hébert and Robert D. Tollison (1992), ‘The Economics of Sin and Redemption: Purgatory as a Market-Pull Innovation?’ 19. Laurence R. Iannaccone (1992), ‘Sacrifice and Stigma: Reducing Free-riding in Cults, Communes, and Other Collectives’ 20. James D. Montgomery (1996), ‘Contemplations on the Economic Approach to Religious Behavior’ 21. Steve Bruce (1993), ‘Religion and Rational Choice: A Critique of Economic Explanations of Religious Behavior’ 22. Steven J. Brams (1980), ‘Introduction’ 23. Avinash Dixit and Gene Grossman (1984), ‘Directly Unproductive Prophet-Seeking Activities’ 24. Jagdish Bhagwati and T.N. Srinivasan (1991), ‘Religion as DUP Activity’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisIt is a popular notion that money and output are separate and autonomous entities. Money and Inflation argues that this idea can neither explain the purchasing power of money nor its variations over time, and a new theory is therefore presented in its place.The book aims to provide the foundations for a new analysis of inflation from a macroeconomic perspective. The role of money is investigated in terms of value, prices, profit, and capital accumulation.The author argues that in order to gain a thorough comprehension of inflation it is necessary to focus on the formation of national income, not on its distribution. Sergio Rossi's new approach proposes a structural reform of modern banking systems, and outlines an original macro-theoretical investigation of measurement problems in price index theory.Despite its elective affinity with the works of Ricardo, Walras and Keynes, the new analysis overturns traditional concepts of money. The discussion elicits a deeper understanding of the conditions underlying today's inflationary pressures and prescribes new solutions to permanently eradicate them.This unique and path-breaking study will be of enormous interest to academics, researchers, and students involved in monetary economics, as well as monetary policy makers, and central bank and international banking officials.Trade Review'Reading Rossi's book is . . . fascinating and refreshing, and highly worthwhile.' -- Heinrich Bortis, Journal of Economic Studies'It is one of Rossi's merits that his book moves from a critical to a positive analysis of inflation. . . The reader is thus taken on a stimulating journey where well-established "truths" are challenged on logical and factual grounds.' -- From the foreword by Mauro Baranzini and Alvaro CenciniTable of ContentsContents: Foreword by Mauro Baranzini and Alvaro Cencini Preface Introduction Part I: Methodological Issues in the Measurement of Inflation 1. The Methodological Debate in Traditional Inflation Analysis 2. From Technical Biases to Analytical Issues Part II: Towards a Macroeconomic Analysis of Inflation 3. The Neoclassical Analysis of Inflation: A Critical Appraisal 4. The Argument Refined: Exogenous and Endogenous Money Part III: A Modern Paradigm for Inflation Analysis 5. Wage Setting, Credit Policy and Inflation 6. Inflation and Fixed Capital Accumulation Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis provocative book examines the standing of Say's Law two centuries after its initial statement in 1803. From the 30 year General Glut debate at the start of the nineteenth century which focused solely on its truth, to the Keynesian revolution and Keynes's successful attempt to convince his fellow economists that Say's Law was wrong, it remains the most controversial principle in the history of economic theory. The central question - not resolved to this day - is this: can demand deficiency ever be the cause of recession and, if so, are greater levels of unproductive spending an appropriate response? The thrust of the argument is that if Say's Law is valid, much of modern macroeconomic theory is fatally flawed. The book explores the validity of this problematic principle, reminding us that this 200 year debate has not yet been laid to rest.The specially commissioned papers within this volume - by authors representing the full range of economic opinion today - spell out where this two hundred year old debate now stands. The book seeks to provide an understanding of the place of this principle in the minds of economists 200 years after it was first made explicit in the works of Jean-Baptiste Say.Providing a spectrum of perspectives both for and against the principles underlying Say's Law, this accessible book will be a captivating read for economists, economic historians and non-specialists alike.Trade Review'All in all, this volume is a useful book because it addresses an important issue in the history of economics, not as an antiquarian problem but as a question of present-day relevance. As such, it could be useful classroom stuff. The polemic tone of several contributions makes for good reading.' -- Evert Schoorl, Journal of the History of Economic Thought'As a loyal Keynesian, I conclude that where the Keynesian literature is directly at odds with the Smith-Say-Mill-Ricardo positions, I am driven to vote for the former. But there are important parts of the analyses that can be considered to supplement one another, and other portions in which they are emphatically in agreement. Specifically, while I am convinced that the behaviour of demand can be responsible for recessions and depressions, I also believe these events can arise in other ways, so that earlier business-cycle models that are not fundamentally demand-driven should not be rejected out of hand.' -- From chapter one by William Baumol'The central idea of this book is the interesting notion of having different writers (with differing views) contribute on the single topic of Say's Law which helps to underline the continuing controversial nature of that "Law" both in terms of what Say actually thought and the relevance of what he put forward. Besides being a "must read" for those interested in the history of economic thought, this book should appeal to anyone involved with debates over the causes of unemployment in market economies.' -- Malcolm Sawyer, Leeds University Business School, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. Say’s Law and More Recent Macro Literature: Some Afterthoughts 2. Retrospectives: Say’s Law 3. Jean-Baptiste Say and the Law of Markets: Entrepreneurial Decision-Making in the Real World 4. Economic Management and the Keynesian Revolution: The Policy Consequences of the Disappearance of Say’s Law 5. Say’s Law of Markets: An Austrian Appreciation 6. Say’s Law, Growth Theory and Supply-Side Economics 7. Say’s Law: Keynes’s Success with its Misrepresentation 8. The Historical Context of the General Glut Controversy 9. Say’s Lore 10. Savings, Hoarding and Say’s Law 11. Say’s Economy 12. Nudge Nudge, Wink Wink, Say No More Appendix Index

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Book SynopsisThe Economics of Sin examines the definition and evolution of sin from the perspective of rational choice economics, yet is conscious of the limitations of such an approach. The author argues that because engaging in activities deemed to be sinful is an act of choice, it can therefore be subject to the logic of choice in the economic model. The book considers the formation of religions, including the new age revival of 'wicca', as regulators of the quasi-market in sins, and goes on to appraise the role of specific sins such as lying, envy, jealousy, greed, lust, sloth, and waste in individual markets and in macroeconomic activity. Empirical evidence on issues such as cannibalism, capital punishment, addiction, adultery and prostitution is also explored. Samuel Cameron concludes that a large percentage of economic activity is intimately connected with forms of sin which are in some circumstances highly beneficial to the functioning of markets, particularly in the presence of market failure.This innovative, interdisciplinary study of the institution of sin will be of enormous interest to a wide-ranging readership, including researchers and teachers of economics, sociology and theology. It will also be of importance for anthropologists and philosophers.Trade Review'This is a fascinating book. Readers will be surprised to discover the lengths to which the Von Neumann-Morgenstern, Becker, Lancaster and Knight models of rational choice can be applied to all forms of sinful behaviour. . . This volume is an interesting read and will be of interest to lecturers and students alike.' -- Marcus Ling, Economic Issues'The Economics of Sin is a timely work, a bold and engaging - though controversial - journey into territory where there is much to be done but most modern economists still fear to tread. . . It makes a useful contribution to the discipline, and should force any reader to grapple with some fairly deep questions that, until recently, lay nearly dormant in the economics literature.' -- Joseph G. Eisenhauer, Review of Social Economy'It is a remarkable book and presages what might have been called "the economics of the Bible". The author very successfully invokes the arguments of economics and blends them with theology.' -- John Brewer, Network'The ultimate test of a book is whether it should be granted shelf space in one's library. The Economics of Sin should be considered a work produced more at the beginning of a field of thought than in the middle or at the end. There is much unexplored territory. Cameron is a Marco Polo who has traveled afar and now recounts the amazing things he has seen on his journey. Before we begin our own journey, we want to know what he knows, both to warn us away from preventable mistakes or shortcomings, as well as to help us formulated our own conjectures and compare them to what others have done. >The Economics of Sin performs a great service that reflects the amount of time and care that went into preparing it. It easily passes the library shelf space test.' -- Earl L. Grinols, Faith and EconomicsTable of ContentsContents: Part I: 1. Introduction 2. Tools of the Trade: Rational Choice 3. Religion Part II: 4. Greed, Lust, Sloth and Waste 5. Envy and Jealousy 6. Lies and Deceit Part III: 7. Matters of Life and Death 8. Addiction 9. Adultery 10. Prostitution 11. Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe book explores the evolution, through the first half of the 20th century, of the key neoclassical concept of rationality. The analysis begins with the development of modern decision theory, covers the interwar debates over the role of perfect foresight and analyses the first game-theoretic solution concepts of von Neumann and Nash.The author's proposition is that the notion of rationality suffered a profound transformation that reduced it to a formal property of consistency. Such a transformation paralleled that of neoclassical economics as a whole from a discipline dealing with real economic processes to one investigating issues of logical consistency between mathematical relationships.Modeling Rational Agents will be of great interest to scholars of the history of economic thought and method, as well as all those working in the field of game and decision theory.Trade Review'The fame of Modeling Rational Agents precedes it. Nicola Giocoli's book won the Best Monograph prize, 2004, from the European Society for the History of Economic Thought. . . It does not disappoint the expectations thus aroused. Giocoli's account is powerful and fascinating, and elegantly presented.' -- Andy Denis, Economics and Philosophy'The History of Economics Society has honored this study with the Joseph Dorfman Award. Reading this insightful and thought-provoking book produces ample proof that both the donor and the recipient should be congratulated for this choice.' -- Hansjorg Klausinger, History of Economic Ideas'. . . highly recommended to all those interested in the evolution of scientific ideas in the 20th century.' -- Solomon Marcus, Mathematical Reviews'Giocoli's book is an impressive tour de force that relies on extensive and expansive literatures. It should be required reading for anyone desiring a new perspective on the history of economics in the previous century.' -- Esther-Mirjam Sent, EH.NetTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: Two Images of Economics 2. The Escape from Psychology 3. The Escape from Perfect Foresight 4. Von Neumann and Morgenstern’s Game Theory 5. Nash’s Game Theory 6. Conclusion: The Fall and Rise of Modern Game Theory References Index

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Book SynopsisThis book acts as a welcome foil to current thinking on the concept of globalisation, which tends to be divided into two distinct camps: one which suggests that the neo-liberal model has triumphed and has no realistic alternative, and another which argues that globalisation, in its most extreme form, does not really exist, rather having evolved gradually from the very beginnings of industrialisation. Bob Milward presents an alternative view of globalisation and argues that indeed there has been a continuum in capitalist development, but that this has been forged by historical processes and the dynamism of the competitive forces of capitalism. He identifies the emergence of monopoly capitalism as an important shaping factor, and in so doing sheds light on issues of underdevelopment, multinational imperialism and crises in advanced capitalist economies.This radical, multidisciplinary account of the condition of the global economy, encompassing a critique of the neo-liberal foundations of orthodox global analysis, will appeal to an extensive audience. Students, researchers and academics in the fields of economics, heterodox economics, economic geography, politics, sociology, development studies, international relations and public policy will find Globalisation? Internationalisation and Monopoly Capitalism to be an engaging read.Trade Review'There is no doubt that Bob Milward has written a book which is intrinsically interesting, has a clear message, and is a useful contribution in a debate often muddied with hyperbole. . . . it deserves a wide readership from those. . . interested in making sense of persistent economic imbalances in twenty-first century capitalism.' -- Paul Benneworth, EH.Net'It [the book] offers a well-balanced, well-researched analysis of the present globalism from an appropriately broad-based position, both in breadth of analysis and appropriate focus, and provides a very telling account of the inadequacies of the neo-classical position.' -- Keith Cowling, University of Warwick, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Globalisation? 3. Internationalisation 4. Monopoly Capitalism 5. Global Finance 6. Industry 7. Culture 8. Labour 9. Welfare States 10. Trade 11. Development and Underdevelopment 12. Regulation 13. Regionalisation 14. Concluding Remarks Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe re-emergence of institutional economics in the final quarter of the twentieth century is one of the most important and fruitful developments in social science. In bringing together some of the most significant previously published papers by leading scholars in the field, this authoritative collection explores the major changes in the 'new' and 'old' institutional economics, the developments of new approaches and the extension of applications to new areas which have taken place since the early 1990s.This volume is a definitive collection of readings showing both changes in the research agenda and new developments at the cutting edge. It is an ideal reference source for students and researchers in the fields of economics, sociology, business and other related disciplines.Trade Review'This valuable collection provides a detailed look at recent developments in institutional economics. The essays pay due attention to both the old and the new institutional traditions and show that there is potential for a synthesis between them.' -- Ferudun Yilmaz, Review of Political Economy'For more light on the issues, one should certainly read the brilliant introduction and the articles in the volume.' -- Bhanoji Rao, Global Business ReviewTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction Geoffrey M. Hodgson PART I THREE OVERVIEWS 1. Malcolm Rutherford (2001), ‘Institutional Economics: Then and Now’ 2. Richard R. Nelson and Bhaven N. Sampat (2001), ‘Making Sense of Institutions as a Factor Shaping Economic Performance’ 3. J. Rogers Hollingsworth (2000), ‘Doing Institutional Analysis: Implications for the Study of Innovations’ PART II METHODOLOGY, INSTITUTIONS AND INDIVIDUALS 4. Ekkehart Schlicht (1998), ‘The Texture of Custom’ 5. Samuel Bowles (1998), ‘Endogenous Preferences: The Cultural Consequences of Markets and Other Economic Institutions’ 6. Geoffrey M. Hodgson (1998), ‘The Approach of Institutional Economics’ PART III THE CHANGING NEW INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS 7. Douglass C. North (1991), ‘Institutions’ 8. Jack Knight (1992), ‘Introduction’ 9. Arthur T. Denzau and Douglass C. North (1994), ‘Shared Mental Models: Ideologies and Institutions’ 10. Avner Greif (1998), ‘Historical and Comparative Institutional Analysis’ 11. Peter Howitt and Robert Clower (2000), ‘The Emergence of Economic Organization’ 12. Oliver E. Williamson (2000), ‘The New Institutional Economics: Taking Stock, Looking Ahead’ 13. Masahiko Aoki (2001), ‘What are Institutions? How Should We Approach Them?’ PART IV HABITS, NORMS AND KNOWLEDGE 14. David Lane, Franco Malerba, Robert Maxfield and Luigi Orsenigo (1996), ‘Choice and Action’ 15. Andy Clark (1997), ‘Economic Reason: The Interplay of Individual Learning and External Structure’ 16. Geoffrey M. Hodgson (1997), ‘The Ubiquity of Habits and Rules’ 17. Paul Twomey (1998), ‘Reviving Veblenian Economic Psychology’ 18. Giovanni Dosi, Luigi Marengo, Andrea Bassanini and Marco Valente (1999), ‘Norms as Emergent Properties of Adaptive Learning: The Case of Economic Routines’ 19. Richard N. Langlois (2001), ‘Knowledge, Consumption, and Endogenous Growth’ 20. Jason Potts (2001), ‘Knowledge and Markets’ PART V PROPERTY, MONEY AND THE STATE 21. Itai Sened (1997), ‘Conclusion: The Political Origin of Human Rights’ 22. Gunnar Heinsohn and Otto Steiger (2000), ‘The Property Theory of Interest and Money’ 23. Stephanie Bell (2001), ‘The Role of the State and the Hierarchy of Money’ PART VI MARKETS AS INSTITUTIONS 24. Dhananjay K. Gode and Shyam Sunder (1993), ‘Allocative Efficiency of Markets with Zero-Intelligence Traders: Market as a Partial Substitute for Individual Rationality’ 25. Philip Mirowski and Koye Somefun (1998), ‘Markets as Evolving Computational Entities’ 26. Brian J. Loasby (2000), ‘Market Institutions and Economic Evolution’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisFor much of the twentieth century, mainstream economists have treated human agents in their models as if they were rational beings of unbounded computational capacity - the notorious 'Homo Economicus' of much economic theory. However, the patent inadequacies of this understanding of human nature have become increasingly apparent, and economists have begun looking for more realistic models, incorporating the insights of evolutionary theory. The authors address the question of human nature in economics, examining not only some of the recent writing on this subject in evolutionary psychology and related disciplines, but also the ideas of important thinkers in the Western intellectual tradition. Beginning with the ancient Greeks and progressing to the modern day, the contributors explore the works of such thinkers as Augustine, Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus, Alfred Marshall and Kenneth Boulding.Many of these works are placed in a Darwinian, evolutionary perspective, with the imperative that the study of human nature must be consistent with our understanding of human evolution, and should consider how human beings are moulded by cultural and institutional influences. Naturally, Darwin's own view of human nature is also explored, undermining the mistaken notion that Darwinism promotes human nature as greedy, uncooperative and self-seeking.This enlightening, original and highly readable work will be of great interest to professional economists and students, researchers and teachers of evolutionary economics.Trade Review'Through an outstanding collection of essays by leading scholars, John Laurent explains how evolutionary economics has come of age.' -- Viviana de Giovinazzo, Journal of the History of Economic ThoughtTable of ContentsContents: Preface by Geoffrey M. Hodgson Introduction 1. Evolution and the Nature of Man in Greek Thought 2. Augustine on Economic Man 3. Adam Smith’s Theory of Human Nature 4. Malthus on Indolence 5. Charles Darwin on Human Nature 6. Alfred Marshall on Homo oeconomicus: Evolution versus Utilitarianism? 7. Kropotkin and Reclus: Geographers, Evolution, and ‘Mutual Aid’ 8. Sounding the Trumpet: T.A. Jackson on Darwin, Marx and Human Existence 9. Kenneth Boulding: Man of Images 10. Fritz Machlup: ‘How One Thing Led to Another’ 11. Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Homo oeconomicus: The Concept of Universal Nomadism Index

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Book SynopsisThe path to success as an academic economist is littered with obstacles. Even with excellent research material, one faces issues of running the seminar and conference gauntlet, tempestuous relationships with co-authors, the selection of an appropriate journal outlet, a detailed peer review process and, with it, the ever-present spectre of rejection.This collection tackles the issues confronting the up-and-coming economist. The authors include some of the subject's finest luminaries who offer friendly and invaluable advice as well as providing a more light-hearted look at the publication process. Some articles have become classics in their own right. They vary from an examination of seminal (and originally rejected) articles by leading economists to an analysis of why referees are not adequately paid. The tools of both economic theory and econometrics are applied to uncover some home truths and, as a result, these papers provide new insights into the nature of economic discourse.Trade Review'We have all had rejections that infuriated us because the reviewers always seem not to have read our work with the care and understanding that it merits.' -- William J. Baumol, New York University and Princeton University, US'I somehow rub referees up the wrong way, maybe by claiming more originality than I really have. Whatever the cause, I still open return letters from journals with fear and trembling, and more often than not get bad news. I am having a terrible time with my current work on economic geography. Referees tell me that it is obvious, it's wrong and anyway they said it years ago.' -- Paul Krugman, MIT, US'Everyone has a "good" paper rejected at one time because of a vicious unfair stupid referee and everyone has a "bad" paper rejected at one time because it deserves to be buried. Neither are quite as devastating as a teenager being rejected in some passionate one-sided romance, but you still can't forget them.' -- Richard Freeman, NBER, US'Economists are peculiar social scientists not least because they attach enormous value to the publication of articles in the refereed journals and virtually no value to the publication of books. It is difficult for economists to have a coffee break without a conversation which quickly turns to questions like: "Why was my article refereed by so-and-so journal? Why did the anonymous referees say what they did? Where shall I send my next paper?" In short, the publication process merits a hideous fascination if only because it governs the pecuniary and non-pecuniary rewards of the economics profession. Here are 15 classic articles on that topic gathered together by an editor who has long studied the practices of economics journals. Although economists do not read books, this is one book they will want to read - and with profit too.' -- The late Mark Blaug, formerly of the University of London and University of Buckingham, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: Success and Rejection in Economics 1. Life Among the Econ 2. The Young Economist’s Guide to Professional Etiquette 3. How are the Might Fallen 4. Aging and Productivity Among Economists Part II: Referees and Editors 5. Facts and Myths About Refereeing 6. Is There Value Added from the Review Process in Economics? 7. The Effects of Double-Blind versus Single-Blind Reviewing 8. Favoritism versus Search for Good Papers 9. Why Referees are not Paid (Enough) Part III: To Co-Author or Not to Co-Author 10. Estimates of the Returns to Quality and Co-authorship in Economic Academia 11. Trends in Multi-Authored Papers in Economics 12. First Author Conditions Part IV: The Influence of Economics Journals 13. The Journals of Economics 14. The Scholarly Journal Literature of Economics 15. The Relative Impacts of Economics Journals Index

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Book SynopsisRichard Ebeling's insightful and highly readable book explains and applies the ideas of the Austrian economists to a wide range of contemporary public policy issues. He combines intellectual political-economic history with the modern Austrian theory of the market process to challenge the premises and uses of mainstream neoclassical economics.He shows the continuities between the positive contributions of the classical economists and the Austrian's in contrast to the neoclassical conceptions of man, the market economy and theory-formation for policy applications. Particular emphasis is given to the Austrian view of the human actor as creative innovator and planner who changes his world to improve his circumstances in comparison to the neoclassical idea of man as a passive economizer within given constraints. The Austrian approach is applied to the problems of the regulated economy, socialist central planning, the welfare state, monetary policy, international trade, and the hundred-year conflict between classical liberalism and collectivism.Economists, historians of thought and policy analysts will find this collection of essays illuminating.Trade Review'I can recommend this 10-chapter book without reservation to anyone who is interested in Ludwig von Mises, Austrian economics, or the history of economic ideologies.' -- J. Patrick Gunning, History of Economic Ideas'This compilation of essays is an attractive addition to the Austrian economics literature.' -- Troy P. Lynch, History of Economics Review'Richard M. Ebeling is one of the most dedicated and competent scholars engaged in research on the life and work of Ludwig von Mises. Professor Ebeling's work on different aspects of Austrian economics is thorough and enlightening. The publication of this collection of his essays will be welcomed by all discerning scholars in the field.' -- Israel M. Kirzner, New York University, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. How Economics Became the Dismal Science: The Classical Economists and 20th Century Economics 2. The Significance of Austrian Economics in 20th Century Economic Thought 3. A Rational Economist in an Irrational Age: Ludwig von Mises 4. Economic Calculation under Socialism: Ludwig von Mises and his Predecessors 5. Ludwig von Mises and the Gold Standard 6. Classical Liberalism and Collectivism in the 20th Century 7. The Political Myths and Economic Realities of the Welfare State 8. The Free Market and the Interventionist State: The Political Economy of Public Policy 9. The Limits of Economic Policy: The Austrian Economists and the German ORDO Liberals 10. The Global Economy and Classical Liberalism: Past, Present and Future Index

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Book SynopsisThe contingent valuation technique for measuring the economic value of environmental goods and services has become increasingly popular in recent years and has many advantages over other revealed or stated preference methods. It has been criticised, however, for being inconsistent with economic theory by reflecting altruistic motives and moral obligations. This book examines the role of the 'warmglow' effect (the pleasure derived from giving to good causes or being concerned about the environment) in contingent valuation studies and examines whether warmglow is an underlying force in CV responses.The author argues that if the empirical evidence suggests that warmglow is important, then its magnitude needs to be assessed in the valuation function. The ultimate goal is to disentangle the warmglow effect from the original 'willingness-to-pay' mean estimates and compute a dry estimate, free from any warmglow. The author conducts a CV application in a Portuguese natural park to test the validity of this approach. He tests the premise that the financial contribution by itself constitutes a source of well-being to the respondent and also discusses whether the warm glow component should or should not be included when formulating benefit-cost analysis and environmental policy.This innovative book will be essential reading to all students and scholars of the economics of environmental valuation.Trade Review'Paulo Nunes provides a detailed and innovative book outlining a contingent valuation (CV) study investigating warm glow. . . This is a very detailed account of a state-of-the-art application of the CV method. If you are embarking on your first CV study as a PhD student or otherwise, then this excellent book may be invaluable.' -- Neil Powe, Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design'Paulo Nunes provides an innovative and insightful study that puts forward a method for detecting and correcting warmglow effects in contingent valuation. While readers are being taken on this hunt for warmglow, they are treated to a thorough explanation of how a CVM instrument is designed, refined, implemented and statistically tested for robustness using parametric and non-parametric approaches. The survey instrument provided in the appendix is an added bonus for those wanting to implement his warmglow detection and correction method. It is simply "unbelievable" how much information is packed into this volume. It is a good read and contains sections that will be useful for those designing their first CVM survey, as well as veterans interested in trying out the author's method for detecting and correcting for warmglow.' -- John B. Loomis, Colorado State University, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface Part I: Economic Valuation, Warmglow and Preference Modelling 1. Values, Valuation Methods and Contingent Valuation: An Overview 2. Evaluating CV Measurement Validity: Separating the Light from the Heat 3. Modelling Consumer Preferences Part II: Survey Design and Implementation 4. Preliminary Design Research 5. Structure of the Final Survey Instrument 6. Survey Execution Part III: Analysis of the Survey Results 7. Descriptive Analysis of the Survey Responses 8. Non-parametric Testing Procedures of the Stated WTP Responses 9. A Univariate Estimation of the Stated WTP Responses 10. Operationalization of Consumer Motivations 11. The Valuation Function 12. Conclusions Part IV: Appendices and Bibliographic A. Derivation of Comparative Static Results B. Comprehensive Index C. The Survey Instrument: Questionnaire and Visual Aid D. Public Opinion with Respect to Government Policy Issues E. Information Context: Multivariate Regression Analysis F. Factor Analysis G. Warmglow Payment Vehicle Cross Effect: Estimation Results Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Elgar Companion to Economics and Philosophy aims to demonstrate exactly how these two important areas have always been linked, and to illustrate the key areas of overlap. The Companion is divided into distinct parts, each of which highlights a leading area of scholarly concern: political economy conceived as social philosophy; the methodology and epistemology of economics; and social ontology and the ontology of economics. The contributors are well-known and distinguished authors from a variety of disciplines, who have been invited both to survey and to provide a personal assessment of current and prospective future states of their respective areas of philosophical interest. Academics and students who have an interest in economics and philosophy, political philosophy and the history of ideas will find this book of great appeal, as will researchers working in the field and readers interested in the nature of the discipline of economics.Trade Review'. . . there are many first-rate contributions here. Those contributions make this collection valuable especially to readers who are already knowledgeable about the various areas in which the interests of philosophers and economists overlap.' -- Daniel M. Hausman, Journal of Economic Methodology'The Elgar Companion To Economics and Philosophy is a very good read. Every library should buy it now.' -- John King, History of Economics Review'The volume collects articles surveying developments in such related fields as economic methodology, ethics, epistemology, and social ontology. Many of the articles are forward-looking, and as such constitute substantive and original (and at times provocative) contributions to the literature. The volume as a whole is a success; the editors are to be congratulated for their efforts.' -- Bruce J. Caldwell, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, US'This Companion is called economics and philosophy but actually it is about the philosophy of economics and all the great questions in the subject are here. The weather in the philosophy of economics has been stormy lately and the climate continues to this day to be unsettled. Will the storms soon settle down to give way to calmer days? Read this excellent collection of informative papers in the field to stimulate your own answer to that question.' -- The late Mark Blaug, formerly of the University of London and University of Buckingham, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction PART I: POLITICAL ECONOMY AS POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY 1. Natural Law, Natural History and the Foundations of Political Economy José Luís Cardoso 2. The Historical and Philosophical Foundations of New Political Economy Alain Marciano 3. Economic Rationality Shaun P. Hargreaves Heap 4. From Imperialism to Inspiration: A Survey of Economics and Psychology Bruno S. Frey and Matthias Benz 5. Institutional Economics: From Menger and Veblen to Coase and North Geoffrey M. Hodgson 6. Taking Evolution Seriously: What Difference Does it Make for Economics? Jack J. Vromen 7. Normative Economics and Theories of Distributive Justice Marc Fleurbaey 8. Ideology: An Economic Point of View Alain Leroux PART II: THE METHODOLOGY AND EPISTEMOLOGY OF ECONOMICS 9. The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes Roger E. Backhouse 10. Constructivism: The Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge D. Wade Hands 11. From Feminist Empiricism to Feminist Poststructuralism: Philosophical Questions in Feminist Economics Drucilla K. Barker 12. Rhetoric and Postmodernism in Economics Robert F. Garnett, Jr. 13. Models in Economics Marcel Boumans 14. Formalism Peter Kesting and Arnis Vilks 15. Methodological Individualism and Economics Harold Kincaid PART III: SOCIAL ONTOLOGY AND THE ONTOLOGY OF ECONOMICS 16. Philosophical Under-Labouring in the Context of Modern Economics: Aiming at Truth and Usefulness in the Meanest of Ways Tony Lawson 17. The Conflict Between Formalism and Realisticness in Modern Economics: The Case of the New Institutional Economics Stephen Pratten 18. Structure and Agency in Economic Analysis: The Case of Austrian Economics and the Material Embeddedness of Socio-economic Life Paul A. Lewis 19. Collective Intentionality, Complex Economic Behavior, and Valuation John B. Davis 20. Decartes’ Legacy: Intersubjective Reality, Intrasubjective Theory Edward Fullbrook 21. Information, Knowledge and Modelling Economic Agency Philip Faulkner and Jochen Runde 22. Conceptions of Probability Charles R. McCann, Jr. 23. Money Geoffrey Ingham Index

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Book SynopsisNo question has more intrigued the minds of scholars of economic thought throughout history than that of the nature and meaning of time. The articles in this insightful collection attempt to provide satisfactory answers to fundamental issues on the use of time in economic theory. These volumes bring together the most important contributions on the subject, ranging from issues about the allocation of time, theory of choice, preference reversal and time in equilibrium to the issues of irreversibility, complex systems and the role of time.This comprehensive collection will be of great interest to researchers and students alike.Table of ContentsContents: Volume I Acknowledgements Introduction Stefano Zamagni and Elettra Agliardi PART I METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES ON TIME IN ECONOMICS 1. Randall Bausor (1983), ‘Time and the Structure of Economic Analysis’ 2. Fernando Carvalho (1984), ‘On the Concept of Time in Shacklean and Sraffian Economics’ 3. M. Dummett (1986), ‘Causal Loops’ 4. N. Georgescu-Roegen (1971), ‘Instants of Time and Duration’, ‘Hysteresis and History’, ‘Time and “Time”’, ‘Stocks and Flows’, ‘Funds and Services’, and ‘Entropy and Economic Value’ 5. Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (1985), ‘Time and Value in Economics and in Gossen’s System’ 6. Derek Parfit (1984), ‘Different Attitudes to Time’ 7. F.P. Ramsey (1928), ‘A Mathematical Theory of Saving’ 8. Paul A. Samuelson (1944), ‘The Relation Between Hicksian Stability and True Dynamic Stability’ 9. G.L.S. Shackle (1958), ‘The Complex Concept of Economic Time’ 10. G.L.S. Shackle (1976), ‘Time and Choice’ 11. Stephen Smale ([1977] 1980), ‘Some Dynamical Questions in Mathematical Economics’ 12. Gordon C. Winston (1982), ‘Economic Events in Time’ 13. Gordon C. Winston (1988), ‘Three Problems with the Treatment of Time in Economics: Perspectives, Repetitiveness, and Time Units’ 14. Stefano Zamagni (1984), ‘Ricardo and Hayek Effects in a Fixwage Model of Traverse’ PART II TIME AND EQUILIBRIUM 15. Randall Bausor (1986), ‘Time and Equilibrium’ 16. Jean-Pierre Danthine (1978), ‘Information, Futures Prices, and Stabilizing Speculation’ 17. Gérard Fuchs and Guy Laroque (1976), ‘Dynamics of Temporary Equilibria and Expectations’ 18. Jean Michel Grandmont (1977), ‘Temporary General Equilibrium Theory’ 19. Jean-Michel Grandmont (1985), ‘On Endogenous Competitive Business Cycles’ 20. Jerry R. Green (1973), ‘Temporary General Equilibrium in a Sequential Trading Model with Spot and Futures Transactions’ 21. Sanford J. Grossman (1977), ‘The Existence of Futures Markets, Noisy Rational Expectations and Informational Externalities’ 22. Frank H. Hahn and Takashi Negishi (1962), ‘A Theorem on Non-Tâtonnement Stability’ 23. Frank Hahn ([1989] 1990), ‘Information Dynamics and Equilibrium’ 24. Roy Radner (1972), ‘Existence of Equilibrium of Plans, Prices, and Price Expectations in a Sequence of Markets’ 25. Stephen Smale (1976), ‘Dynamics in General Equilibrium Theory’ Name Index Volume II Acknowledgements An introduction by the editors to all three volumes appears in Volume I PART I TIME AND IRREVERSIBILITY 1. Olivier J. Blanchard and Lawrence H. Summers (1986), ‘Hysteresis and the European Unemployment Problem’ 2. Christophe Chamley and Douglas Gale (1994), ‘Information Revelation and Strategic Delay in a Model of Investment’ 3. Avinash Dixit (1992), ‘Investment and Hysteresis’ 4. Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (1975), ‘Bio-Economic Aspects of Entropy’ 5. Donald W. Katzner (2000), ‘Economics and the Principle of Uniformity’ 6. Robert S. Pindyck (1991), ‘Irreversibility, Uncertainty, and Investment’ 7. Jennifer F. Reinganum (1981), ‘Market Structure and the Diffusion of New Technology’ 8. Joan Robinson (1974), ‘History Versus Equilibrium’ PART II TIME AND COMPLEX SYSTEMS 9. W. Brian Arthur (1988), ‘Self-Reinforcing Mechanisms in Economics’ 10. Lawrence Blume and David Easley (1992), ‘Evolution and Market Behavior’ 11. William A. Brock (1991), ‘Understanding Macroeconomic Time Series Using Complex Systems Theory’ 12. Paul A. David (1994), ‘Why are Institutions the ‘Carriers of History’?: Path Dependence and the Evolution of Conventions, Organizations and Institutions’ 13. Steven N. Durlauf (1993), ‘Nonergodic Economic Growth’ 14. Hans Föllmer (1974), ‘Random Economies with Many Interacting Agents’ 15. John Foster (1997), ‘The Analytical Foundations of Evolutionary Economics: From Biological Analogy to Economic Self-Organization’ 16. Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (1977), ‘What Thermodynamics and Biology can Teach Economists’ 17. Douglass C. North (1994), ‘Economic Performance Through Time’ 18. Michael Woodford (1989), ‘Imperfect Financial Intermediation and Complex Dynamics’ PART III TIME AND “PARADOXES” IN GAME THEORY 19. James W. Friedman (1971), ‘A Non-cooperative Equilibrium for Supergames’ 20. Mordecai Kurz (1992), ‘Understanding the Past in Order to Assess the Future: On Learning Equilibrium Price Processes’ 21. Reinhard Selten (1978), ‘The Chain Store Paradox’ 22. Eric van Damme (1989), ‘Stable Equilibria and Forward Induction’ Name Index Volume III Acknowledgements An introduction by the editors to all three volumes appears in Volume I PART I THE ALLOCATION OF TIME A Theories of the Allocation of Time 1. William J. Baumol (1968), ‘On the Social Rate of Discount’ 2. Gary S. Becker (1965), ‘A Theory of the Allocation of Time’ 3. Jeff E. Biddle and Daniel S. Hamermesh (1990), ‘Sleep and the Allocation of Time’ 4. Reuben Gronau (1977), ‘Leisure, Home Production, and Work – the Theory of the Allocation of Time Revisited’ 5. F. Thomas Juster and Frank P. Stafford (1991), ‘The Allocation of Time: Empirical Findings, Behavioral Models, and Problems of Measurement’ 6. Robert A. Pollak and Michael L. Wachter (1975), ‘The Relevance of the Household Production Function and Its Implications for the Allocation of Time’ 7. David L. Wetzell (2002), ‘On Some Unappreciated Implications of Becker’s Time Allocation Model of Labor Supply’ 8. Richard Zeckhauser (1973), ‘Time as the Ultimate Source of Utility’ B The Allocation of Time: Applications 9. Rudolf Andorka (1987), ‘Time Budgets and Their Uses’ 10. Dagfinn Ås (1978), ‘Studies of Time-Use: Problems and Prospects’ 11. Corry Azzi and Ronald Ehrenberg (1975), ‘Household Allocation of Time and Church Attendance’ 12. Alok Bhargava (1997), ‘Nutritional Status and the Allocation of Time in Rwandese Households’ 13. Robert W. Fogel (1999), ‘Catching Up with the Economy’ 14. J. Gershuny (1995), ‘Time Budget Research in Europe’ [First prepared as J. Gershuny (1992), ‘Time Budget Research in Europe’ 15. Peter Kooreman and Arie Kapteyn (1987), ‘A Disaggregated Analysis of the Allocation of Time within the Household’ 16. Tadashi Yamada, Tetsuji Yamada and J. Moonwon Kang (1999), ‘A Study of Time Allocation of Japanese Households’ PART II TIME, PREFERENCE REVERSAL AND THE THEORY OF CHOICE 17. David E. Bell (1982), ‘Regret in Decision Making under Uncertainty’ 18. David M. Grether and Charles R. Plott (1979), ‘Economic Theory of Choice and the Preference Reversal Phenomenon’ 19. Jon Elster and George Loewenstein (1992), ‘Utility from Memory and Anticipation’ 20. Peter J. Hammond (1976), ‘Changing Tastes and Coherent Dynamic Choice’ 21. Tjalling C. Koopmans (1964), ‘On Flexibility of Future Preference’ 22. David M. Kreps (1979), ‘A Representation Theorem for “Preference for Flexibility”’ 23. Graham Loomes and Robert Sugden (1982), ‘Regret Theory: An Alternative Theory of Rational Choice Under Uncertainty’ 24. Maurizio Mistri (2002), ‘Addiction and the Dynamic Inconsistency of Consumption Plans’ 25. Robert A. Pollak (1970), ‘Habit Formation and Dynamic Demand Functions’ 26. Ian Steedman (2001), ‘Consumption Takes Time’ 27. R.H. Strotz (1955), ‘Myopia and Inconsistency in Dynamic Utility Maximization’ 28. Douglas Vickers (1981), ‘Real Time and the Choice-decision Point: A Comment on Findlay and Williams’ “Financial Theory”’ Name Index

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