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Cambridge University Press Institutions Behaviour and Economic Theory
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Cambridge University Press Structural Economic Dynamics
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Cambridge University Press Post Keynesian Price Theory
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Cambridge University Press Legacy Scholasticism Econ Thought Antecedents of Choice and Power Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics
Book SynopsisThis book studies the development of ideas on freedom, coercion and power in the history of economic thought. It focuses on the exchange of goods and services and on terms of exchange (interest rates, prices and wages) and examines the nature of choice, that is, the state of the will of economic actors making exchange decisions. In a social context, anyone's range of choice is restricted by the choices made by others. The first to raise the question of the will in this economic context were the medieval scholastics, drawing on non-economic analytic models inherited from antiquity and mainly from Aristotle. From these origins, views on economic choice, coercion and power are recorded, as they gradually change over the centuries, until they manifest themselves in more contemporary disputes between different branches of institutional economics.Trade Review"Langholm has shown that the original Scholastic analysis of the market process drew on Aristotelian and Roman law concepts of volition and free choice as the basis for justice in exchange. Realistic appraisals of need and institutions resulted i practical policies that qualified these premises, paralleling modern institutionalism. This provocative study implicitly demands further investigation of the ideological milieu that produced a naturalistic economics based on the specious Benthamite assumption of ubiquitous rationality." S. todd Lowry, Washington and Lee University"Odd Langholm's The Legacy of Scholasticism in Economic Thought is an extraordinary achievement. langholm has written an immensely insightful and richly textured history of the development of teh idea of economic compulsion." Isis"...Langholm has done more than any scholar to uncover the widely scattered sources of Scholastic economic thought, to reimagine the shape and logic of a tradition that lasted more than four centuries, and to bring the subject to a wide audience. It presents a wealth of textual evidence culled from an impressive array of sources,,,this work is directed at least as much to modern historians and economists as it is to medievalists...the intent, informational content, and overal conception of the book are praiseworthy...It may indeed work for the audience who, educated primarily in modern economic theory, will be introduced to another, clearly quite sophisticated, set of assumptions about the ethical dimensions of exchange. There is much in this book that will enlighten and impress them." Speculum: Journal of Medieval StudiesTable of ContentsPreface; Introduction; Part I. Compulsion and the Will: Three Ancient Traditions: 1.The Aristotelian tradition; 2. The Roman law tradition; 3. The Augustinian tradition; Part II. Need as Compulsion: The Scholastic Paradigm: 4. Loans and usury; 5. Price and market manipulation; 6. Need and the will in buying and selling; 7. Labor and wages; Part III. Rejection and Revival in Postscholastic Thought: 8. Hobbes: the antithesis; 9. The economics of natural law; 10. The neoclassical system and its critics; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Village Economies
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Cambridge University Press The Corporation as Anomaly
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Cambridge University Press William Jaffes Essays on Walras
Book SynopsisIn this book Dr Walker brings together Dr William Jaffé's essays on the important and interesting work of Léon Walras, the founder of general equilibrium analysis. One of Jaffé's main interests was to explain the genesis of Walras's work, which he did by examining Walras's biography.Table of ContentsPreface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. Walras's Biography: 1. Unpublished papers and letters of Léon Walras (1935); 2. Léon Walras, an economic advisor manqué (1975); Part II. The Genesis and Development of Walras's Ideas: 3. A. N. Isnard, progenitor of the Walrasian general equilibrium model (1969); 4. The birth of Léon Walras's Eléments (1977); 5. A centenarian on a bicentenarian: Léon Walras's Eléments on Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1977); 6. Léon Walras and his relations with American economists (1960); Part III. The Scope of Walras's Work: 7. Léon Walras and his conception of economics (1956); 8. Léon Walras (1968); Part IV. Special Topics in Walras's Economics: 9. Léon Walras' theory of capital accumulation (1942); 10. Walras's theory of capital formation in the framework of his theory of general equilibrium (1953); 11. New light on an old quarrel: Barone's unpublished review of Wicksteed's 'Essay on the coordination of the laws of distribution' and related documents (1964); 12. The Walras-Poincaré correspondence on the cardinal measurability of utility (1977); 13. Walras' theory of tâtonnement: a critique of recent interpretations (1967); 14. Another look at Léon Walras's theory of tâtonnement (1981); Part V. Walras's Place in the History of Economic Thought: 15. Reflections on the importance of Léon Walras (1971); 16. Léon Walras's role in the 'marginal revolution' of the 1870s (1972); 17. Menger, Jevons and Walras de-homogenized (1976); 18. The normative bias of the Walrasian model: Walras versus Gossen (1977); 19. Walras's economics as others see it (1980); Index.
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Cambridge University Press Growth Accumulation and Unproductive Activity
Book SynopsisThis book documents the growth of unproductive activity in the United States economy since World War II and its relation to the economic surplus, capital accumulation and economic growth.Trade Review"Edward Wolff has provided us with an analytical framework which richly describes general social productive and unproductive activity and their consequences for the postwar U.S. economy...Overall, this volume should prove to be a valuable resource to economists pursuing empirical analysis of value categories." Alexander M. Thompson III, Science and SocietyTable of ContentsPreface; 1. Introduction; 2. Unproductive activity in a capitalist society; 3. A Marxian accounting framework; 4. A growth model of accumulation and unproductive labor; 5. Rise of unproductive activity in postwar economy; 6. Absorption of labor and capital and rate of surplus value; 7. Absorption of new resources and growth in real income; 8. Conclusions and speculations; Appendix: data sources and methods; References; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Fiction Famine and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland 40 Cambridge Studies in NineteenthCentury Literature and Culture Series Number 40
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Cambridge University Press Economic Choice Theory
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Cambridge University Press Measuring Economic Welfare
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Cambridge University Press Computation and Complexity in Economic Behavior and Organization
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Cambridge University Press Schumpeter and the Idea of Social Science
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Cambridge University Press Trade and Industrial Policy Under International Oligopoly
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Cambridge University Press Statistics German State 19001945 The Making of Modern Economic Knowledge
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Cambridge University Press Markets in Historical Contexts
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Cambridge University Press Manipulation on Trial
Book SynopsisThis book is the first economic analysis of the Hunt silver case, the biggest manipulation case ever brought to trial. Drawing on interviews with the judge, jury and attorneys, as well as his own experience as an expert witness, the author focuses on the economic analyses used at the trial and investigates the problems introduced when economic analysis enters complex litigation.Trade Review"...should be interesting and instructive reading for business economists, especially for those who would venture into the loosely-charted, interdisciplinary world of forensic economics." Samuel C. Webb and Jen-Chi Cheng, Southern Economic Journal"For those interested in the intersections of law and economics, the volume will be a wonderful resource." Jonathan R. Macey, Journal of Economic LiteratureTable of ContentsList of figures; List of tables; Preface; Foreword Thomas O. Gorman; 1. Why the Hunt silver case? 2. Turmoil in the silver market; 3. Identifying a manipulation; 4. Testing for the cause of the price rise in silver; 5. Determining the appropriate price of silver; 6. Inferring manipulative intent; 7. The predicament of economic analysis in the courtroom; Glossary of commodity market terms; References; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Essays in Honor of Kenneth J. Arrow
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Cambridge University Press Essays in Honor of Kenneth J. Arrow
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Cambridge University Press Markets and Democracy Participation Accountability and Efficiency
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Cambridge University Press Keyness Philosophical Development
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Cambridge University Press Evolutionary Economics
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Cambridge University Press A Theory of Adaptive Economic Behavior
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Cambridge University Press The Economic Theory of Social Institutions
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Cambridge University Press Capitalism and Catastrophe
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Cambridge University Press Premodern Financial Systems A Historical Comparative Study
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Cambridge University Press The Megacorp and Oligopoly Micro Foundations of Macro Dynamics
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Cambridge University Press Capitalism Socialism and Serfdom
Book SynopsisThis book contains fourteen of Professor Domar's principal papers beginning with 'On the measurement of Technological Change' published in 1961.Table of ContentsList of tables and figures; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Part I. Economic Systems: 1. Reflections on economic development; 2. Poor old capitalism: a review article; 3. The blind men and the elephant: an essay on isms; Part II. Economic growth and productivity: 4. On the measurement of technological change; 5. On total productivity and all that: a review article; 6. Economic growth and productivity in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, and Japan in the post-war period (with S. M. Eddie, B. H. Herrick, P. M. Hohenberg, M. D. Intrilligator, and I. Miyamoto); 7. An index-number tournament; 8. On the measurement of comparative efficiency; Part III. Soviet Economics: 9. Special features of industrialization in planned economies: a comparison between the Soviet Union and the United States; 10. The Soviet collective farm as a producer cooperative; 11. On the optimal compensation of a socialist manager; Part IV. Slavery and Serfdom: 12. The causes of slavery or serfdom: a hypothesis; 13. On the profitability of Russian serfdom (with M. J. Machina); 14. Were Russian serfs overcharged for their land by the 1861 Emancipation? the history of one historical table; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Popperian Legacy in Economics Papers Presented at a Symposium in Amsterdam December 1985 Author Neil de Marchi Sep2009
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Cambridge University Press Capital Utilization
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Cambridge University Press The Reason of Rules
Book SynopsisSocieties function on the basis of rules. These rules coordinate the activities of individuals who have a variety of goals and purposes. Whether the rules work well or ill, and how they can be made to work better, is a matter of major concern. Appropriately interpreted, the working of social rules is also the central subject matter of modern political economy.Table of Contents1. The constitutional imperative; 2. The contractarian vision; 3. The myth of benevolence; 4. Modelling the individual for constitutional analysis; 5. Time, temptation, and the constrained future; 6. Politics without rules, I: Time and non-constrained collective action; 7. rules and justice; 8. Politics without rules, II: Distributive justice and distributive politics; 9. Is constitutional revolution possible in democracy?
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Cambridge University Press Consumer Sovereignty Human Interest
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Cambridge University Press The Timing of Economic Activities Firms Households and Markets in TimeSpecific Analysis
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Cambridge University Press T. R. Malthus an Essay on the Principle of Population
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Cambridge University Press An Essay on the Principle of Population
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Cambridge University Press On Appraising the Performance of an Economic System
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Cambridge University Press Production Frontiers
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Cambridge University Press Methodological Foundations of Macroeconomics Keynes and Lucas
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Cambridge University Press T. R. Malthus
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Cambridge University Press T. R. Malthus
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Cambridge University Press Critical Essays on Piero Sraffas Legacy in Economics
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Cambridge University Press Organization with Incomplete Information
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Cambridge University Press Soviet Economists of the Twenties
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Cambridge University Press Competition and Structure
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Cambridge University Press The Political Economy of Conflict and Appropriation
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Cambridge University Press Social and Demographic Accounting
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Cambridge University Press Theories of Value and Distribution Since Adam Smith Ideology and Economic Theory
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Cambridge University Press New Approaches to Monetary Economics Proceedings of the Second International Symposium in Economic Theory and Econometrics 2 International Symposia Theory and Econometrics Series Number 2
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