Economic Theory & Philosophy

This is the first textbook on Chinese economic development that will be suitable for an undergraduate audience and provide and accessible, thematic overview of the growth of one of the world’s fastest growing economies...

This study, first published in 1986, provides a systematic account of the processes and structure of class formation in the major advanced capitalist societies. This title will be of particular interest to students researching the impact of recession on societal structure and the processes of politi..

This study, first published in 1986, provides a systematic account of the processes and structure of class formation in the major advanced capitalist societies. This title will be of particular interest to students researching the impact of recession on societal structure and the processes of politi..

This is the first attempt to bring together a careful selection of classic papers in natural resource economics along with reflections by highly regarded professionals about how these papers have impacted the field. The original commentaries by prominent scholars included in this book offer fresh th..

This book sets out to address some basic questions drawing from classical political economy and information theory and using an econophysics methodology: What is information? Why is it valuable? What is the relationship between money and information?..

This book sets out to address some basic questions drawing from classical political economy and information theory and using an econophysics methodology: What is information? Why is it valuable? What is the relationship between money and information?..

Building on the Groenewegen's respected collection of eighteenth century economics, this new book focuses on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and includes several essays that have never been previously published...

This second volume of essays on nineteenth and twentieth century economic thought, complements the first and continues the high standards of scholarship and academic rigour...

This book proposes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of human problem solving, choice, decision-making and change, to explain economic transactions, and the nature and evolution of organisations and institutions...

Explores the major topics in comparative economic systems, using an approach that is similar to that of Janos Kornai, the Hungarian economist. The text discusses property rights and the role of the State, examines the varieties of socialist organization and presents the capitalist alternatives...

The economic crisis is also a crisis for economic theory. Most analyses of the evolution of the crisis invoke three themes, contagion, networks and trust, yet none of these play a major role in standard macroeconomic models. In this book Kirman argues for a theory in which these aspects are central...

K. Vela Velupillai is probably the world’s leading expert, and author of a number of key essays on, computable economics. His essays, brought together here for the first time have been revised and updated and set alongside significant new contributions._x000D_..