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Essays in economic theory, growth, and labour markets : a festschrift in honour of E. Drandakis

Drandakis, Emmanuel (honouree); Bitros, George (ed.); … - 2002

game theory and applications. The editors focus on a select set of issues that stand high on the agenda of academic … understanding of the dilemmas posed for theory and policy. Readers are offered new empirical evidence on such thorny social problems …

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Handbook of alternative theories of political economy

Stilwell, Frank J. B. (ed.); Primrose, David (ed.); … - 2022

, evolutionary, and feminist approaches, recent studies of capital as power, modern money theory, behavioural economics, social …

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Adam Smith and economic science : a methodological reinterpretation

Peil, Jan - 1999 - Revised English edition

Since the celebration of the bicentenary of The Wealth of Nations, the last twenty years have seen a burgeoning interest in Adam Smith's contribution to economics. Jan Peil's book aims to provide a new model for interpreting Smith's contribution to economic science. This model elucidates Smith's...

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Evolution and path dependence in economic ideas : past and present

Garrouste, Pierre (ed.); Ioannides, Stavros (ed.) - 2001

Since the 1980s there has been a renewed interest in attempts to introduce a sense of history into economic literature. In this book, the authors argue that it is not possible to explain a state of the world without first analysing the processes that lead to that state. The contributions...

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The history of economic analysis : selected essays

Creedy, John - 1998

This book brings together John Creedy's most important essays on the history of economic analysis. The book contributes to our understanding of the development of economics by looking at the subject and some of its major players including Pareto, Edgeworth, Marshall and Wicksell, from an...

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Economics, welfare policy, and the history of economic thought : essays in honour of Arnold Heertje

Fase, M. M. G. (ed.); Kanning, W. (ed.); … - 1999

theory and policy. In particular, they follow in the tradition of his work on oligopoly and price theory, welfare theory and … policy, growth theory, environmental economics, technical change and the history of economic thought and methodology. The …

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Marx and non-equilibrium economics

Freeman, Alan (ed.); Carchedi, Guglielmo (ed.) - 1996

This major volume develops a rigorous equilibrium-free political economy based on labour values. Rooted in a non-dualistic approach restoring money to its central role in a commodity economy, Marx and Non-Equilibrium Economics is the fruit of extensive international collaboration reflecting a...

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Marx, Veblen, and contemporary institutional political economy : principles and unstable dynamics of capitalism

O'Hara, Phillip Anthony - 2000

This book uses an institutional-evolutionary approach to analyse economic problems associated with developments in capitalism during the second half of the twentieth century. It argues that economics should centre on institutions - the durable fabric of the economy over time. Drawing on the...

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Market, state, and feminism : the economics of feminist policy

Dawson, Graham; Hatt, Sue; Watson-Brown, Linda; Baxter, … - 2000

Market, State and Feminism offers an inter-disciplinary critique of the 'free market backlash' - the belief that free market economics can improve the position, status and well-being of women. The authors argue that, far from being restrictive and intrusive, state action can enhance the...

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Rethinking economics : markets, technology, and economic evolution

Hodgson, Geoffrey Martin (ed.); Screpanti, Ernesto (ed.) - European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy - 1991

Rethinking Economics is a major contribution to the reconstruction of an economic theory appropriate to the 21st … theoretical tools such as general equilibrium theory are now regarded, even by their leading practitioners, as highly limited and … problematic. New ideas from chaos theory, evolutionary modelling and institutional theory point to new, non …

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