Author: Geoffrey Hodgson
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: economics, society, cognition, bringing, evolution, life
Number of Pages: 394
Published: 1997-01-01
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0472084232
ISBN-13: 9780472084234

Economic theory is currently at a crossroads, where many leading mainstream economists are calling for a more realistic and practical orientation for economic science. Indeed, many are suggesting that economics should be reconstructed on evolutionary lines.This book is about the application to economics of evolutionary ideas from biology. It is not about selfish genes or determination of our behavior by genetic code. The idea that evolution supports a laissez-faire policy is rebutted. The conception of evolution as progress toward greater perfection, along with the competitive individualism so

Author: Steven G. Medema
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: economics, economic, thought, recent, new, law, coasean, institutional
Number of Pages: 292
Published: 1997-10-31
List price: $189.00
ISBN-10: 0792380347
ISBN-13: 9780792380344

This collection assesses the development of `Coasean Economics’ -- those aspects of economic analysis that have evolved out of the ground-breaking work of Ronald Coase. Two major strands of research can be identified here: law and economics and the New Institutional Economics. While both law and economics and the analysis of institutions by no means originated with or evolved solely from Coase’s work, it is undeniable that his contributions, particularly in The Nature of the Firm and The Problem of Social Cost, played a major role in shaping the contemporary manifestations

Author: Edward Fullbrook
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: economics, social, theory, series, days, movement, post, autistic, crisis, first
Number of Pages: 226
Published: 2003-06-05
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0415308984
ISBN-13: 9780415308984

Charts the impact the PAE Network has had so far and constitutes a manifesto for a different kind of economics - it features key contributions from all the major voices in heterodox economics including Tony Lawson, Geoff Hodgson, and Sheila Dow.

Author: Robert D. Atkinson
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: economics, falters, innovation, liberal, fails, conservative, supply, follies
Number of Pages: 276
Published: 2006-10-24
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0742551067
ISBN-13: 9780742551060

The 21st century knowledge economy requires a fundamentally different approach to boosting growth than simply cutting taxes on the richest investors. The alternative is not, however, to resurrect old Keynesian, populist economics as too many Democrats hope to do. Rather, as Rob Atkinson makes clear, our long-term national welfare and prosperity depends on a new economic strategy that fits the realities of the 21st century global, knowledge-based economy: innovation-based growth economics.

Author: David C. Colander
Publisher: Edward Elgar Pu
Keywords: economics, profession, essays, lost, art
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2003-07-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 184376489X
ISBN-13: 9781843764892

Economics is the study of a complex system in which simple laws are not always forthcoming. That complexity mandates three branches of the profession: positive, normative and the art of economics. The economics profession has focused on one of these - positive economics, and in doing so has lost the art of economics. In a series of provocative essays, available now in paperback format, the author argues that most of what economists do is applied policy, which belongs in the art of economics, not in normative or positive economics. The essays explore the forces in academic institutions that hav

Authors:Ronald W. Jones, Peter B. Kenen,
Publisher: North Holland
Keywords: economics, international, handbooks, finance, volume, handbook, monetary
Number of Pages: 636
Published: 1985-01-01
List price: $140.00
ISBN-10: 0444867937
ISBN-13: 9780444867933

Hardbound. This Handbook adopts a traditional definition of the subject, and focuses primarily on the explanation of international transactions in goods, services, and assets, and on the main domestic effects of those transactions. The first volume deals with the "real side" of international economics. It is concerned with the explanation of trade and factor flows, with their main effects on goods and factor prices, on the allocation of resources and income distribution and on economic welfare, and also with the effects on national policies designed explicitly to influence trade and factor flo

Authors:Cutler J. Cleveland, David I. Stern, Robert Costan
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Keywords: economics, nature, series, advances, ecological
Number of Pages: 293
Published: 2007-02-01
List price: $130.00
ISBN-10: 1858989809
ISBN-13: 9781858989808

This book discusses important recent developments in the theory, concepts and empirical applications of ecological economics and sustainable development. The editors have assembled a fascinating collection of papers from some of the leading scholars in the field of ecological economics. Topics covered include: •the contribution of classical economics to ecological economics •alternatives to the growth paradigm and Gross Domestic Product •valuation in ecological economics and indicators of natural resource scarcity •case studies of sustainable development •critical reviews of the environm