Economic Theory & Philosophy

Hayek thought that all economic behavior (and by implication other human behavior) is based on fallible interpretations of what information is impo...

The three volumes of the "The Collected Scientific Works of David Cass" are ordered chronologically, which happens to coincide with the development...

This book analyses the contribution of Eugen (Jenő) Varga (1879-1964) on Marxist-Leninist economic theory as well as the influence he exercised on ...

The Handbook of Business Ethics is a substantially revised new edition of Ethics in the Economy, currently in its third printing. With new content ...

Incommensurability is the impossibility to determine how two options relate to each other in terms of conventional comparative relations. This book...

Now in its seventh edition, Ingrid Rima's classic textbook charts the development of the discipline from the classical age of Plato and Aristotle, ...

Providing a thorough examination of distributive justice, Distributive Justice and Taxation presents and discusses different theories of what const...

An Introduction to Economic Dynamics provides a framework for students to appreciate and understand the basic intuition behind economic models and ...

The social sciences often fail to examine in any systematic way the nature of their subject matter. Demonstrating that this is a central explanatio...

This book explores the relationship between wage policy, distribution of income, and ultimately how that distribution impacts on democratic theory....

This study seeks to demonstrate the subtle ways in which changes in the language associated with economic issues are reflective of a gradual but qu...

This book focuses on markets organized as double auctions in which both buyers and sellers can submit bids and asks for standardized units of well-...

Designed to demonstrate the essential mathematical concepts—comprehensively and economically—without re-teaching basic material or laboring over su...

Humanity and Nature in Economic Thought: Searching for the Organic Origins of the Economy argues that organic elements seen as incompatible with ra...

This book, first published in 1990, examines the works of Theodore Limberg and Fritz Schmidt and their contribution to the development of the case ...

The role of the German Historical School and of Carl Menger (founder of the Austrian School) is appraised in this new book. This important period o...

Stone Age Economics is a classic study of anthropological economics, first published in 1974. Ambitiously tackling the nature of economic life and ...

The Political Economy of Bureaucracy applies Public Choice theory and a complex systems view of government institutions to analyze policy implement...

In spite of recurrent criticism and an impressive production of alternative indicators by scholars and NGOs, GDP remains the central indicator of c...

This book examines the largely-neglected shift in Max Weber’s work from political economy to economic sociology. Considering the importance of his ...

This handbook presents a systematic and comprehensive overview of economic sociology, an exemplary interdisciplinary field which draws on theoretic...

In this concise book based on his Arne Ryde Lectures in 2002, Young suggests a conceptual framework for studying strategic learning and highlights ...

Herbert Simon’s renowned theory of bounded rationality is principally interested in cognitive constraints and environmental factors and influences ...

The three volumes of the "Collected Scientific Works of David Cass" are ordered chronologically, which happens to coincide with the development of ...