Economic Theory & Philosophy

The struggle for world leadership between China and the United States, resulting in Russia's war with Ukraine, among other things, underscores the ...

This book explores the micro-foundations and the macro-implications of the design of labour contracts.

Experiencing both the enormous benefits and the serious detriments of globalization and economic restructuring, Southern California serves as a mag...

Experiencing both the enormous benefits and the serious detriments of globalization and economic restructuring, Southern California serves as a mag...

Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) modelling is a relatively new field in economics, however, it is rapidly becoming one of the most useful tools...

The questions such as, ‘why the focuses of national policies vary significantly across countries, although their sources of policies are to a great...

Only in the past twenty years have debates surrounding modernism and postmodernism begun to have an impact on economics. This new way of thinking r...

Sociological Theory and the Capability Approach connects normative strands of sociological theory to the fusion of ethics and economics proposed by...

The editors have chosen substantial extracts to illustrate the major themes and ideas in Beveridge’s writing over a period of more than four decade...

The dynamics of financial returns varies with the return period, from high-frequency data to daily, quarterly or annual data. Multifractal Random W...

This volume deals with a range of contemporary issues in Indian and other world economies, with a focus on economic theory and policy and their lon...

A Different Vision: Race and Public Policy, Volume 2 brings together for the first time the ideas, philosophies and interpretations of North Ameri...

The essays in this edited collection, first published in 1986, focus on important debates surrounding the central Marxian problem of the transforma...

Russell provides a groundbreaking critique of the orthodox position on the nature of New Deal reforms as well as an innovative analysis of the unra...

The Economics of Time and Ignorance is one of the seminal works in modern Austrian economics. Its treatment of historical time and of uncertainty h...

Economics is often accused of being "a-ethical"--lacking a moral perspective--if not altogether immoral. Its detractors criticize economic models o...

This supplementary volume to Beveridge’s important work Voluntary Action sets out some of the important material on which the Report is based, and ...

This study assesses income and poverty effects of vegetable commercialization in Kenya with a special focus on gender issues and evaluates the perf...

Exit from Globalization moves from theory to practice: from questions of where incorrigible knowledge of substantive economic life derives and how ...

Discussing economic theory and English economic history from the eighteenth century until the late 1970s this volume discusses among other things f...

Looks at ways to increase the scope and power of institutional economics. Different approaches to economic methodology are considered and the broad...

In recent years leading figures in a variety of fields - political, financial, medical, and organizational - have become acutely aware of the need ...

‘Big data’ is now readily available to economic historians, thanks to the digitisation of primary sources, collaborative research linking different...

First published in English 1929, this is a reisssue of the nineteenth edition of Othmar Spann's classic history of economic thought, which is stong...

First published in 1927, Hobson’s treatise on industrial conflict analyses the nature and causes of industrial disputes with the aim of finding an ...

This book puts in place the groundwork for an alternative theory of money in a sociological perspective, proceeding by way of a critique of existin...

In a society where no central agency coordinates the human activity of producing, selling and buying, why is there order and not chaos? This fundam...

Under the impressive editorship of Warren Samuels et al, this book addresses the state of the history of economic thought today. An important contr...

This two volume Handbook contains chapters on the main areas to which Post-Keynesians have made sustained and important contributions. These includ...

Containing important papers by various Georgist scholars, this book highlights the ideas and influence of Henry George as a political economist. ...

The defence of the market and economic freedom have been the main objectives of the investigations by liberal thinkers such as Milton Friedman, Gar...

In recent years, the focus of historians of economic thought has changed to also include the ideas and practices of contemporary economists. This h...

Following the 2008 "global" financial crisis, the viability of globalised financial capitalism was called into question. The resulting fear and unc...