Economic Theory & Philosophy

During the second half of the twentieth century, economics exported its logic utility maximization to the analysis of several human activities or...

Neoliberalism has been one of the most hotly contested themes in academic and political debate over the last 30 years. Given the global and persist...

This title was first published in 2003. This book focuses on the role of tangible and intangible networks that affect spatial interdependencies in ...

This book offers a sociological analysis of globalised capitalist markets, advancing the notion of disembedded markets to challenge the idea of soc...

Economics for an Information Age examines the central role of information within economics and society. The neoclassical economic model, taught as ...

First published in 1998, this collection of essays deals with four different areas of international economics: the theory of international trade, t...

More than a decade since the global financial crisis, economics does not exhibit signs of significant change. Mainstream economists act on an ideal...

Adam Smiths An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations was the product of the rich tradition of the Scottish Enlightenment but ...

Portfolio theory and much of asset pricing, as well as many empirical applications, depend on the use of multivariate probability distributions to ...

Although Otto Neurath left his mark across an array of fields in the first half of the twentieth century, he was trained as an economist and wrote ...

First published in 1998, this collection of essays by eminent microfinance practitioners provides a range of perspectives on contemporary issues in...

Change is a crucial and inescapable process for many organisations. It remains a constant challenge for managers and many change management initiat...

Drawing on years of research, Gerald Steele delves into the diverse ideas of Henry Simons, a neglected economist whose work in the 1930s on monetar...

This book examines the relationship between the property market and urban economy. The stimulus for this work was provided by the seemingly ever-ac...

Our elaborate market exchange system owes its existence not to our calculating brain or insatiable self-centeredness, but rather to our sophisticat...

The goal of behavioural economics is to improve the explanatory and predictive power of economics. This can be achieved by using theoretical and me...

David Ricardos theories have been widely studied and discussed, including the prominent theory on comparative advantage. Ricardo and International ...

This book is set against the assumption that humans' unique feature is their infinite creativity, their ability to reflect on their deeds and to co...

This book aims to answer two questions that are fundamental to the study of agent-based economic models: what is agent-based computational economic...

Macroeconomic Principles and Problems: A Pluralist Introduction offers a comprehensive overview of the major topics in modern macroeconomics, from ...

In the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars Britain found itself faced with a stagnant economy. Economist David Ricardo believed that the full re-integ...

Economic theory and a growing body of empirical research support the idea that economic freedom is an important ingredient to long-run economic pro...

This book poses the question: How can we organize society in such a way that our disagreement about facts and norms works to the benefit of everyon...

In this age of overlapping and mutually reinforcing deep global crises (financial convulsions, global warming, mass migrations, militarism, inequal...