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Author |
: Steven Pressman |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 464 |
Release |
: 2008-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135974350 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1135974357 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Leading Contemporary Economists by : Steven Pressman
This collection of essays offers an extensive critical review of the major contributions of key figures in contemporary heterodox economics, including comprehensive bibliographies of their writings and lists of vital secondary material.
Author |
: Steven Pressman |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 464 |
Release |
: 2008-10-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135974343 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1135974349 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Leading Contemporary Economists by : Steven Pressman
This book describes the important contributions of several contemporary economic figures including recent Nobel Laureates. Describing their work and putting it into an historical perspective, these chapters explain how their work constitutes a major contribution to the discipline of economics and how it has broadened economic science. Co-Editor of
Author |
: Steven G. Medema |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 210 |
Release |
: 2016-07-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781349124862 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1349124869 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ronald H. Coase by : Steven G. Medema
'Ronald Coase has been one of the most influential economists of his generation. Although his work deals with foundation concepts of the discipline, his ideas have been subject to a variety of usage, often in conjunction with ideological baggage. In this remarkable study of the man and his work, Steven Medema presents a careful, judicious, and nonideological examination of Coase's ideas, challenging their misleading common interpretation and revealing their true revolutionary potential. 'Professor W. J. Samuels, Michigan State University 'Steven Medema's achievement is remarkable: with great fairness he introduces us to Coase's way of thinking, and with great clarity helps us to see the continuity in Coase's work. Medema has written an excellent book about one of the great economists of this century.' Professor T. Eggertsson, University of Iceland and Indiana University. This book presents a systematic analysis of the contributions to economics made by Ronald Coase, the recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize in economics. Throughout his career, Coase has brought his own particular approach to the economic analysis of the firm, pricing and costs, externalities, the economic role of government and economic method. This book analyses Coase's seminal contributions to economics, as well as the challenge that his work poses to conventional economic analysis.
Author |
: Beatriz Armendariz |
Publisher |
: MIT Press |
Total Pages |
: 461 |
Release |
: 2017-05-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780262337878 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0262337878 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Economics of Contemporary Latin America by : Beatriz Armendariz
Analysis of Latin America's economy focusing on development, covering the colonial roots of inequality, boom and bust cycles, labor markets, and fiscal and monetary policy. Latin America is richly endowed with natural resources, fertile land, and vibrant cultures. Yet the region remains much poorer than its neighbors to the north. Most Latin American countries have not achieved standards of living and stable institutions comparable to those found in developed countries, have experienced repeated boom-bust cycles, and remain heavily reliant on primary commodities. This book studies the historical roots of Latin America's contemporary economic and social development, focusing on poverty and income inequality dating back to colonial times. It addresses today's legacies of the market-friendly reforms that took hold in the 1980s and 1990s by examining successful stabilizations and homemade monetary and fiscal institutional reforms. It offers a detailed analysis of trade and financial liberalization, twenty–first century-growth, and the decline in poverty and income inequality. Finally, the book offers an overall analysis of inclusive growth policies for development—including gender issues and the informal sector—and the challenges that lie ahead for the region, with special attention to pressing demands by the vibrant and vocal middle class, youth unemployment, and indigenous populations.
Author |
: Nicholas Wapshott |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 400 |
Release |
: 2011-10-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780393083118 |
ISBN-13 |
: 039308311X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics by : Nicholas Wapshott
“I defy anybody—Keynesian, Hayekian, or uncommitted—to read [Wapshott’s] work and not learn something new.”—John Cassidy, The New Yorker As the stock market crash of 1929 plunged the world into turmoil, two men emerged with competing claims on how to restore balance to economies gone awry. John Maynard Keynes, the mercurial Cambridge economist, believed that government had a duty to spend when others would not. He met his opposite in a little-known Austrian economics professor, Freidrich Hayek, who considered attempts to intervene both pointless and potentially dangerous. The battle lines thus drawn, Keynesian economics would dominate for decades and coincide with an era of unprecedented prosperity, but conservative economists and political leaders would eventually embrace and execute Hayek's contrary vision. From their first face-to-face encounter to the heated arguments between their ardent disciples, Nicholas Wapshott here unearths the contemporary relevance of Keynes and Hayek, as present-day arguments over the virtues of the free market and government intervention rage with the same ferocity as they did in the 1930s.
Author |
: Anwar Shaikh |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 1019 |
Release |
: 2016-01-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199390656 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199390657 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Capitalism by : Anwar Shaikh
Orthodox economics operates within a hypothesized world of perfect competition in which perfect consumers and firms act to bring about supposedly optimal outcomes. The discrepancies between this model and the reality it claims to address are then attributed to particular imperfections in reality itself. Most heterodox economists seize on this fact and insist that the world is characterized by imperfect competition. But this only ties them to the notion of perfect competition, which remains as their point of departure and base of comparison. There is no imperfection without perfection. In Capitalism, Anwar Shaikh takes a different approach. He demonstrates that most of the central propositions of economic analysis can be derived without any reference to standard devices such as hyperrationality, optimization, perfect competition, perfect information, representative agents, or so-called rational expectations. This perspective allows him to look afresh at virtually all the elements of economic analysis: the laws of demand and supply, the determination of wage and profit rates, technological change, relative prices, interest rates, bond and equity prices, exchange rates, terms and balance of trade, growth, unemployment, inflation, and long booms culminating in recurrent general crises. In every case, Shaikh's innovative theory is applied to modern empirical patterns and contrasted with neoclassical, Keynesian, and Post-Keynesian approaches to the same issues. Shaikh's object of analysis is the economics of capitalism, and he explores the subject in this expansive light. This is how the classical economists, as well as Keynes and Kalecki, approached the issue. Anyone interested in capitalism and economics in general can gain a wealth of knowledge from this ground-breaking text.
Author |
: Thomas Piketty |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 817 |
Release |
: 2017-08-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674979857 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674979850 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Capital in the Twenty-First Century by : Thomas Piketty
What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack of adequate data and clear guiding theories. In this work the author analyzes a unique collection of data from twenty countries, ranging as far back as the eighteenth century, to uncover key economic and social patterns. His findings transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality. He shows that modern economic growth and the diffusion of knowledge have allowed us to avoid inequalities on the apocalyptic scale predicted by Karl Marx. But we have not modified the deep structures of capital and inequality as much as we thought in the optimistic decades following World War II. The main driver of inequality--the tendency of returns on capital to exceed the rate of economic growth--today threatens to generate extreme inequalities that stir discontent and undermine democratic values if political action is not taken. But economic trends are not acts of God. Political action has curbed dangerous inequalities in the past, the author says, and may do so again. This original work reorients our understanding of economic history and confronts us with sobering lessons for today.
Author |
: Michael Bleaney |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 871 |
Release |
: 1992-01-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134973392 |
ISBN-13 |
: 113497339X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis Companion to Contemporary Economic Thought by : Michael Bleaney
* 41 in-depth essays cover current economic theory and applied economics in a single, comprehensive volume * Interfaces section considers economics as it relates to other disciplines * Extensive notes, bibliographies and suggestions for further reading; detailed index of Topics and People `A treasure-house of stimulating argument and vast amounts of, mostly, well marshalled information. The market for general survey volumes, while already crowded, should surely find room for this offering.' - The World Economy `The work under review scores very high marks.' - The Economic Journal `The chapters are written by people who are excellently qualified and frequently well-known in their field ... The book's strengths lie in the range of contributors, the very high quality of most of the contributors and its emphasis on applied economics. For these reasons alone it is an important book, which will be invaluable both to students and to economists wishing to learn about developments in other branches of their discipline.' - Economica
Author |
: Bruno S. Frey |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 163 |
Release |
: 2019-07-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783030177409 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3030177408 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis 21st Century Economics by : Bruno S. Frey
Economics is a science that can contribute substantial powerful and fresh insights! This book collects essays by leading academics that evaluate the scholarly importance of contemporary economic ideas and concepts, thus providing valuable knowledge about the present state of economics and its progress. This compilation of short essays helps readers interested in economics to identify 21st century economic ideas that should be read and remembered. The authors state their personal opinion on what matters most in contemporary economics and reveal its fascinating and creative sides.
Author |
: Adam Smith (économiste) |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 636 |
Release |
: 1812 |
ISBN-10 |
: BCUL:1092833964 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Theory of Moral Sentiments by : Adam Smith (économiste)