This thought-provoking book discusses the concept of progress in economics and investigates whether any advance has been made in its different spheres of research. The authors look back at the history, successes and failures of their respective fields and thoroughly examine the notion of...

During a distinguished career, Basil Moore has made numerous important contributions to macroeconomics and monetary economics, and is renowned as the progenitor of the "horizontalist" analysis of endogenous money. More recently, he has embraced complexity theory as part of an ongoing effort to...

1 Introduction -- 2 The Three Fires of Greed, Hatred, and Delusion -- 3 The Eye of the Heart -- 4 Socially Engaged Buddhist Economics -- 5 Right Livelihood Institutions -- 6 Thailand's Inner and Outer Work from SEP to SDG -- 7 Bhutan's High-Level Outer Work (GNH) -- 8 Ecodharma and Econdharma --...

Interest in economics is at an all-time high. Americans are debating the proper role of the government in company bailouts the effectiveness of tax cuts versus increased government spending to stimulate the economy, & potential effects of deflation

While neo-classical analysis works well for studying impersonal exchange in markets, it fails to explain why people conduct themselves the way they do in their personal relationships with family, neighbors, and friends. In Humanomics, Nobel Prize-winning economist Vernon L. Smith and his...