Modern Economics

Author : Mark Skousen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317455868

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The Making of Modern Economics by Mark Skousen Pdf

Here is a bold history of economics - the dramatic story of how the great economic thinkers built today's rigorous social science. Noted financial writer and economist Mark Skousen has revised and updated this popular work to provide more material on Adam Smith and Karl Marx, and expanded coverage of Joseph Stiglitz, 'imperfect' markets, and behavioral economics.This comprehensive, yet accessible introduction to the major economic philosophers of the past 225 years begins with Adam Smith and continues through the present day. The text examines the contributions made by each individual to our understanding of the role of the economist, the science of economics, and economic theory. To make the work more engaging, boxes in each chapter highlight little-known - and often amusing - facts about the economists' personal lives that affected their work.

Author : Ahuja H.L.
Publisher : S. Chand Publishing
Page : 1775 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789352531462

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Modern Economics – An Analytical Study, 20th Edition by Ahuja H.L. Pdf

In its 20th edition, this trusted definitive text is a comprehensive treatise on modern economics. It discusses in detail microeconomics, macroeconomics, monetary theory and policy, international economics, public finance and fiscal policy and above all economics of growth and development. The book has been exhaustively revised to provide students an in-depth understanding of the fundamental concepts and is streamlined to focus on current topics and developments in the field.

Author : Tony Lawson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317530886

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Essays on: The Nature and State of Modern Economics by Tony Lawson Pdf

What do modern academic economists do? What currently is mainstream economics? What is neoclassical economics? And how about heterodox economics? How do the central concerns of modern economists, whatever their associations or allegiances, relate to those traditionally taken up in the discipline? And how did economics arrive at its current state? These and various cognate questions and concerns are systematically pursued in this new book by Tony Lawson. The result is a collection of previously published and new papers distinguished in providing the only comprehensive and coherent account of these issues currently available. The financial crisis has not only revealed weaknesses of the capitalist economy but also highlighted just how limited and impoverished is modern academic economics. Despite the failings of the latter being more widely acknowledged now than ever, there is still an enormous amount of confusion about their source and true nature. In this collection, Tony Lawson also identifies the causes of the discipline’s failings and outlines a transformative solution to its deficiencies. Amongst other things, Lawson advocates for the adoption of a more historical and philosophical orientation to the study of economics, one that deemphasizes the current focus on mathematical modelling while maintaining a high level of analytical rigour. In so doing Lawson argues for a return to long term systematic and sustained projects, in the manner pursued by the likes of Marx, Veblen, Hayek and Keynes, concerned first and foremost with advancing our understanding of social reality. Overall, this forceful and persuasive collection represents a major intervention in the on-going debates about the nature, state and future direction of economics.

Author : Philip Hardwick,Bahadur Khan,John Langmead
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Economics
ISBN : 0582407346

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An Introduction to Modern Economics by Philip Hardwick,Bahadur Khan,John Langmead Pdf

Author : Stephen Pratten
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 605 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317703907

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Social Ontology and Modern Economics by Stephen Pratten Pdf

Economists increasingly recognise that engagement with social ontology – the study of the basic subject matter and constitution of social reality - can facilitate more relevant analysis. This growing recognition amongst economists of the importance of social ontology is due very considerably to the work of members of the Cambridge Social Ontology Group. This volume brings together important papers by members of this group, some previously unpublished, in a collection that reveals the breadth and vitality of this Cambridge project. It provides a brilliant introduction to the central themes explored, perspectives sustained, insights achieved and how the project is moving forward. An initial set of papers examine how ontology is understood and justified within this Cambridge project and consider how it compares with prominent historical and contemporary alternatives. The majority of the included papers involve social ontological analysis being put to work directly in underlabouring for specific types of development in economics. The papers are grouped according to their contribution to clarifying and developing (i) various competing traditions and projects of modern economics, (ii) history of thought contributions, (iii) methodological concerns, (iv) ethics and (v) conceptions of particular aspects of social reality, including money, gender, technology and institutions. Background to and a brief history of the Cambridge group is provided in the Introduction. Social Ontology and Modern Economics will be of interest not only to economists but also philosophers of social science, social theorists and those eager to explore the nature of gender, social institutions and technology.

Author : Michael Bleaney,Prof David Greenaway
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1996-07-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134761500

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A Guide to Modern Economics by Michael Bleaney,Prof David Greenaway Pdf

This work provides a valuable review of the most important developments in economic theory and application over the last decade. Comprising twenty-seven specially commissioned overviews, the volume presents a comprehensive and student-friendly guide to contemporary economics. Previously published by Routledge as part of the Companion to Contemporary Economic Thought, these essays are made available here for the first time in a concise paperback edition. A Guide to Modern Economics will be a valuable guide to all those who wish to familiarize themselves with the most recent developments in the discipline.

Author : Joan Robinson
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781483263236

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Contributions to Modern Economics by Joan Robinson Pdf

Contributions to Modern Economics includes contributions to two great intellectual upheavals in economic theory: the Keynesian Revolution and the revival of the classical theory of profits led by Piero Sraffa. The formation of prices in capitalist and socialist economies and of international trade is also discussed. The evolution of these ideas is linked to the personal and historical events that influenced them. Comprised of 24 chapters, this book begins by describing the second crisis of economic theory, which is related to the first crisis — the great slump of the 1930s. The reader is then introduced to the theory of money and the analysis of output; obstacles to full employment; and the concept of hoarding. Subsequent chapters explore capital, profits, and prices, with emphasis on the theory of capital, imperfect competition, and the theory of value. International trade, capitalism, and beggar-my-neighbor remedies for unemployment are also examined. This monograph should be of interest to economists.

Author : Nicholas Wapshott
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780393083118

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Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics by Nicholas Wapshott Pdf

“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 : Theodore Mariolis,Lefteris Tsoulfidis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9784431550044

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Modern Classical Economics and Reality by Theodore Mariolis,Lefteris Tsoulfidis Pdf

This book presents an in-depth, novel, and mathematically rigorous treatment of the modern classical theory of value based on the spectral analysis of the price–profit–wage rate system. The classical theory is also subjected to empirical testing to show its logical consistency and explanatory content with respect to observed phenomena and key economic policy issues related to various multiplier processes. In this context, there is an examination of the trajectories of relative prices when the distributive variables change, both theoretically and empirically, using actual input–output data from a number of quite divers e economies. It is suggested that the actual economies do not behave like the parable of a one-commodity world of the traditional neoclassical theory, which theorizes the relative scarcities of “goods and production factors” as the fundamental determinants of relative prices and their movement. By contrast, the results of the empirical analysis are fully consistent with the modern classical theory, which makes the intersectoral structure of production and the way in which net output is distributed amongst its claimants the fundamental determinants of price magnitudes. At the same time, however, these results indicate that only a few vertically integrated industries (“industry core” or “hyper-basic industries”) are enough to shape the behaviour of the entire economy in the case of a disturbance. This fact is reduced to the skew distribution of the eigenvalues of the matrices of vertically integrated technical coefficients and reveals that, across countries and over time, the effective dimensions of actual economies are surprisingly low. Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE />

Author : Sidney Weintraub
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781512808650

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Modern Economic Thought by Sidney Weintraub Pdf

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Author : Roger E. Backhouse
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139491334

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The Puzzle of Modern Economics by Roger E. Backhouse Pdf

Does economics hold the key to everything or does the recent financial crisis show that it has failed? This book provides an assessment of modern economics that cuts through the confusion and controversy on this question. Case studies of the creation of new markets, the Russian transition to capitalism, globalization, and money and finance establish that economics has been very successful where problems have been well defined and where the world can be changed to fit the theory, but that it has been less successful in tackling bigger problems. The book then offers a historical perspective on how economists have, since the Second World War, tried to make their subject scientific. It explores the evolving relationship between science and ideology and investigates the place of heterodoxy and dissent within the discipline.

Author : Ryuzo Kuroki
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136338861

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Keynes and Modern Economics by Ryuzo Kuroki Pdf

It is a little over seventy years since John Maynard Keynes produced his magnum opus, The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money. Keynes' staggering achievement has been to remain relevant to economics and other disciplines even today and this book reflects that with an examination on his influence on modern economics. Leading economists from a variety of backgrounds, including Ed Nell and Heinz Kurz have joined forces in this volume with internationally respected Japanese scholars to produce a strong collection of contributions to the debate on Keynes' monumental legacy. This book will be vital reading for historians of economic thought, economic methodologists as well as those economists with an interest in the overall development of their discipline.

Author : Dewett K.K. & Navalur M.H.
Publisher : S. Chand Publishing
Page : 992 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Banks and banking
ISBN : 8121924634

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Modern Economic Theory by Dewett K.K. & Navalur M.H. Pdf

Modern Economic Theory is a critique on how monetary revolution across the globe is changing the course of world economies, financial systems and markets. Beginning with discussion on price theory and microeconomics, this classic textbook progresses to describe comprehensively, theory of income and employability or macroeconomics, money and banking, international economies and public finance. Economic systems, economics of development and planning and economies of welfare provide a clear idea about recent developments in and criticism of compensation principle, market structures and social welfare. It adequately meets the requirements of the BA and B.Com courses (Pass and Honours). In addition, postgraduate students of Arts and Commerce and aspirants of various competitive examinations will also find the book very useful and informative.

Author : Subrata Ghatak
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415097223

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Introduction to Development Economics by Subrata Ghatak Pdf

The third edition of the widely usedIntroduction to Development Economicsprovides a detailed analysis of the major economic issues confronting less developed countries. Throughout, Subrata Ghatak maintains a balance between theories of economic growth and the realities of economic development. Although the basic principles remain unchanged, the past few years have witnessed changes in emphasis and the rise of new areas of interest. Such issues include development and the environment, the international debt crisis, endogenous growth, the impact of foreign aid, fiscal reforms, migration, human capital accumulation and the problems of trade liberalization. Introduction to Development Economicsis divided into four sections and is written in a straightforward style. This is a comprehensive analysis of the area, with many tables added to provide up-to-date statistical data and technical data in the appendices.

Author : Richard Cornes
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1992-02-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521336015

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Duality and Modern Economics by Richard Cornes Pdf

Provides a simple introductory exposition to the basic structure of dual technique analysis - consumer behaviour and producer behaviour - which has been used by many economists since the 1970s. Includes diagrams and an index.