Economic Theory & Philosophy

Highlights the major empirical questions and issues facing Post Keynesian economics. Featuring contributions by Post Keynesian economists, this text focuses on public policy and real-life analysis of the economic theory. It is of interest to upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, professio..

This links theory to practice in the evaluation and criticism of the traditional belief that market forces achieve a satisfactory level of employment and income distribution, a notion long supported by mainstream economic theory until now...

Inspired by modern physics, the author brings together an evolutionary methodology, along the way implicating quantum, graph, and percolation theory. This book provides an interdisciplinary approach to entrepreneurship...

In this book, the authors argue that there are analytically distinct forms of entrepreneurship. They provide a contemporary overview of current research and summarize the policy conclusions that can be drawn...

Majumdar Mukul has been a recognized authority in the field of general equilibrium theory for some years now. In this important new book, he takes the pulse of the field – still fundamental to economic theory as a whole...

Under the impressive editorship of Warren Samuels et al, this book addresses the state of the history of economic thought today. A relevant and important contribution to economics that will develop an unsurprising number of fans...

This book comprises nine papers examining designed institutions and their interplay with spontaneous institutions from various angles...

This impressive volume centres on the relationship between Austrian and Swedish economics. With themes such as capital theory, expectations, policy, market theory and the history of economic thought, it makes for an interesting read...

This collection of Lachmann's essays outline his approach to economics and, in particular, his emphasis on the meaning of human institutions in a world of unpredictable change, rather than on quantitative and stable relations...

First published in 1984, this book carefully dissects and convincingly demonstrates that conservative economics is incoherent in theory and disastrous in practice. The three main schools of thought supporting "free-market" policies – supply side economics, monetarism and rational expectations – are ..

While acknowledging the progress that the capability approach has made in renewing the thinking on development, this book critiques the inadequacy of the approach, drawing conclusions about the economic analysis of development...

While acknowledging the progress that the capability approach has made in renewing the thinking on development, this book critiques the inadequacy of the approach, drawing conclusions about the economic analysis of development...