Foundations Of Economic Analysis

Author : Steven Shavell
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780674043497

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Foundations of Economic Analysis of Law by Steven Shavell Pdf

What effects do laws have? Do individuals drive more cautiously, clear ice from sidewalks more diligently, and commit fewer crimes because of the threat of legal sanctions? Do corporations pollute less, market safer products, and obey contracts to avoid suit? And given the effects of laws, which are socially best? Such questions about the influence and desirability of laws have been investigated by legal scholars and economists in a new, rigorous, and systematic manner since the 1970s. Their approach, which is called economic, is widely considered to be intellectually compelling and to have revolutionized thinking about the law. In this book Steven Shavell provides an in-depth analysis and synthesis of the economic approach to the building blocks of our legal system, namely, property law, tort law, contract law, and criminal law. He also examines the litigation process as well as welfare economics and morality. Aimed at a broad audience, this book requires neither a legal background nor technical economics or mathematics to understand it. Because of its breadth, analytical clarity, and general accessibility, it is likely to serve as a definitive work in the economic analysis of law.

Author : Paul Anthony Samuelson
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass. ; London, England : Harvard University Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Economics, Mathematical
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040180452

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Foundations of Economic Analysis by Paul Anthony Samuelson Pdf

Recent statistical techniques, including nonlinear programming, have been added to a basic survey of equilibrium systems, comparative statistics, consumer behavior theory, and cost and production theory.

Author : Paul Anthony Samuelson
Publisher : New York : Atheneum, c1965, 1979 printing.
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : PSU:000027893876

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Foundations of Economic Analysis by Paul Anthony Samuelson Pdf

Author : Walter Eucken
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642773181

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The Foundations of Economics by Walter Eucken Pdf

THE FIRST GERMAN edition of this book appeared in 1940. Since then the book has gone through five more editions and has been translated into Spanish and Italian. The present English translation is based on the sixth German edition. The author was Professor of Economics at the University of Freiburg, Germany. Professor Eucken was a student at a time when the Historical School dominated the teaching of econo mics at the German universities. Although, at the beginning of his career, he did some work along the lines of the Historical School, neither the ~ims nor the methods of historical research the field of economics as practised by the representatives in of the Historical School satisfied him; and the fact that the members of this school were unable to explain the causes of economic events such as the German inflation after World War I was an added reason for him to turn to economic theory. He became, among German economists, the foremost opponent of the Historical School, which he criticised in several publica tions. Through his wrItings and his teaching he contributed his share to the revival of interest in economic theory which was noticeable in the 'twenties. And he was one of the few economists left in Germany who helped to keep this interest alive during the 'thirties and during World War II. During this time he published Kapitaltheoretische Untersuchungen (1936), and the present volume, which immediately gave rise to an extensive discussion in German economic journals.

Author : Sanjit Dhami
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780192574640

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The Foundations of Behavioral Economic Analysis by Sanjit Dhami Pdf

Taken from the first definitive introduction to behavioral economics, The Foundations of Behavioral Economic Analysis: Other-Regarding Preferences is an authoritative and cutting edge guide to this essential topic for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students. It considers the evidence from experimental games on human sociality, and gives models and applications of inequity aversion, intention based reciprocity, conditional cooperation, human virtues, and social identity. This updated extract from Dhami's leading textbook allows the reader to pursue subsections of this vast and rapidly growing field and to tailor their reading to their specific interests in behavioural economics.

Author : Michael R. Caputo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107717633

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Foundations of Dynamic Economic Analysis by Michael R. Caputo Pdf

Foundations of Dynamic Economic Analysis presents a modern and thorough exposition of the fundamental mathematical formalism used to study optimal control theory, i.e., continuous time dynamic economic processes, and to interpret dynamic economic behavior. The style of presentation, with its continual emphasis on the economic interpretation of mathematics and models, distinguishes it from several other excellent texts on the subject. This approach is aided dramatically by introducing the dynamic envelope theorem and the method of comparative dynamics early in the exposition. Accordingly, motivated and economically revealing proofs of the transversality conditions come about by use of the dynamic envelope theorem. Furthermore, such sequencing of the material naturally leads to the development of the primal-dual method of comparative dynamics and dynamic duality theory, two modern approaches used to tease out the empirical content of optimal control models. The stylistic approach ultimately draws attention to the empirical richness of optimal control theory, a feature missing in virtually all other textbooks of this type.

Author : Marc Lavoie
Publisher : Aldershoot, England : E. Elgar
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Economics
ISBN : UCAL:B4373181

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Foundations of Post-Keynesian Economic Analysis by Marc Lavoie Pdf

Argues that it is possible to construct a coherent alternative to neo-classical economics based on the contributions of post-Keynesian and neo-Ricardian economists. It identifies elements from various non-orthodox traditions that can be used to construct an alternative theoretical framework.

Author : Klaus Mathis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781402097980

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Efficiency Instead of Justice? by Klaus Mathis Pdf

Economic analysis of law is an interesting and challenging attempt to employ the concepts and reasoning methods of modern economic theory so as to gain a deeper understanding of legal problems. According to Richard A. Posner it is the role of the law to encourage market competition and, where the market fails because transaction costs are too high, to simulate the result of competitive markets. This would maximize economic efficiency and social wealth. In this work, the lawyer and economist Klaus Mathis critically appraises Posner’s normative justification of the efficiency paradigm from the perspective of the philosophy of law. Posner acknowledges the influences of Adam Smith and Jeremy Bentham, whom he views as the founders of normative economics. He subscribes to Smith’s faith in the market as an ideal allocation model, and to Bentham’s ethical consequentialism. Finally, aligning himself with John Rawls’s contract theory, he seeks to legitimize his concept of wealth maximization with a consensus theory approach. In his interdisciplinary study, the author points out the possibilities as well as the limits of economic analysis of law. It provides a method of analysing the law which, while very helpful, is also rather specific. The efficiency arguments therefore need to be incorporated into a process for resolving value conflicts. In a democracy this must take place within the political decision-making process. In this clearly written work, Klaus Mathis succeeds in making even non-economists more aware of the economic aspects of the law.

Author : Steven G. Medema,Warren J. Samuels
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018374947

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Foundations of Research in Economics by Steven G. Medema,Warren J. Samuels Pdf

In 21 prescriptive rather than descriptive treatments, well known academic economists set out how they think the discipline should be practiced both internally and in relation to other fields and arenas of society. They explore economics as a historical process and as a public science, realism in model buildings, social science, normative and positive aspects, extracting information from data, and worthwhile economics. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Author : Andrew Gillespie
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 589 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199586547

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Foundations of Economics by Andrew Gillespie Pdf

Assuming no prior knowledge, the second edition of Foundations of Economics introduces students to both microeconomic and macroeconomic principles. This is the ideal text for foundation degrees and non-specialist courses for first year undergraduates.

Author : Michael Carter
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2001-10-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0262531925

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Foundations of Mathematical Economics by Michael Carter Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the mathematical foundations of economics, from basic set theory to fixed point theorems and constrained optimization. Rather than simply offer a collection of problem-solving techniques, the book emphasizes the unifying mathematical principles that underlie economics. Features include an extended presentation of separation theorems and their applications, an account of constraint qualification in constrained optimization, and an introduction to monotone comparative statics. These topics are developed by way of more than 800 exercises. The book is designed to be used as a graduate text, a resource for self-study, and a reference for the professional economist.

Author : Paul Anthony Samuelson
Publisher : New York : McGraw-Hill
Page : 978 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015000040223

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Economics by Paul Anthony Samuelson Pdf

Contains chapter overview and outline, learning objectives, key concept review, helpful hints, multiple choice questions and problem solving questions

Author : Jens Beckert
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400825448

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Beyond the Market by Jens Beckert Pdf

Beyond the Market launches a sociological investigation into economic efficiency. Prevailing economic theory, which explains efficiency using formalized rational choice models, often simplifies human behavior to the point of distortion. Jens Beckert finds such theory to be particularly weak in explaining such crucial forms of economic behavior as cooperation, innovation, and action under conditions of uncertainty--phenomena he identifies as the proper starting point for a sociology of economic action. Beckert levels an enlightened critique at neoclassical economics, arguing that understanding efficiency requires looking well beyond the market to the social, cultural, political, and cognitive factors that influence the coordination of economic action. Beckert searches social theory for the components of an alternative theory of action, one that accounts for the social embedding of economic behavior. In Durkheim and Parsons he finds especially useful approaches to cooperation; in Luhmann, a way to understand how people act under highly contingent conditions; and in Giddens, an understanding of creative action and innovation. Together, these provide building blocks for a research program that will yield a theoretically sophisticated understanding of how economic processes are coordinated and the ways that markets are embedded in social, cultural, and cognitive structures. Containing one of the most fully informed critiques of the neoclassical analysis of economic efficiency--as well as one of the most thoughtful blueprints for economic sociology--this book reclaims for sociology the study of one of the most important arenas of human action.

Author : Donald Wittman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006-06-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521859172

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Economic Foundations of Law and Organization by Donald Wittman Pdf

This book serves as a compact introduction to the economic analysis of law and organization. At the same time it covers a broad spectrum of issues. It is aimed at undergraduate economics students who are interested in law and organization, law students who want to know the economic basis for the law, and students in business and public policy schools who want to understand the economic approach to law and organization. The book covers such diverse topics as bankruptcy rules, corporate law, sports rules, the organization of Congress, federalism, intellectual property, crime, accident law, and insurance. Unlike other texts on the economic analysis of law, this text is not organized by legal categories but by economic theory. The purpose of the book is to develop economic intuition and theory to a sufficient degree so that one can apply the ideas to a variety of areas in law and organization.

Author : Paul W. Glimcher
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780199744251

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Foundations of Neuroeconomic Analysis by Paul W. Glimcher Pdf

Neuroeconomics has emerged at the border of the social and natural sciences. This book argues that a meaningful interdisciplinary synthesis of the study of human and animal choice is not only desirable, but also well underway, and so it is time to develop formally a foundational approach for the field.