"Although all economic activities take place in sectors, economists often devote little attention to differences between and characteristics of sectors. This book tries to show that mesoeconomics, the economic exploration of sectors and groups, is a useful instrument of analysis between...

Der 300. Geburtstag von Adam Smith bot 2023 die Gelegenheit, sich ausführlich mit Leben, Werk und Nachwirkung des Gründers der modernen Ökonomik zu beschäftigen. Die acht Beiträge dieses Bandes bieten nicht nur einen ausführlichen Überblick über den aktuellen Stand der ökonomischen und...

The authors offer perspective on the world financial crisis. Specifically, they claim it was a perfect storm of policy errors that caused the housing bubble and then perpetuated the recovery period into an over-extended recession

This paper, based on the introductory remarks made at the two-day conference on "The State of the Economy, the State of the World," is an idiosyncratic stocktaking of the trajectory of economics from Adam Smith to contemporary times, with special attention to the rise of development economics....

The methodical feasability of new visual models for creative economic prudence is discussed and reviewed; some pathways for 3-4D thinking are shown. A brief scientific discourse on the biophysical limits of economic systems behavior is given, focusing on the role of future management and...

"This innovative book focuses on the current global financial crisis and the inadequacies of the economic theories being used to guide policy. In so doing, it tackles the economic theories that have been used firstly to understand its causes and thereafter to contain the damage it has brought."...