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This book surveys how economists engage with knowledge and beliefs in various fields of economic analysis, such as general equilibrium theory, decision theory, game theory, experimental economics, evolutionary theory of the firm, financial markets and the history of economic thought
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In Fiscal Policy and Social Welfare John Creedy examines alternative tax and transfer systems and their redistributive effects. Drawing on original research, this volume concentrates on modelling tax structures and their implications for social welfare and income distribution. After reviewing...
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This book argues that the shift in general equilibrium theory, from its early long-period to the modern very-short-period versions, has had very important consequences which are insufficiently appreciated by large parts of the economics profession. This shift has produced new difficulties, and...
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The distinguished contributors in this volume provide a variety of essays, which are written in honor of Emmanuel Drandakis. These essays fall into four uniform areas of economics: economic growth, general equilibrium, labor economics and game theory and applications. The editors focus on a...
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During the past decade the issue of a general welfare double dividend (an improvement in environmental quality combined with a positive welfare effect) triggered by a tax shift from labour to energy resources has been extensively debated. In this book, Kurt Kratena studies the employment effects...
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This new edition of Financial Crises and Recession in the Global Economy explores the major financial instabilities and … evolutionary trends in the global economy since the 1970s. Financial globalization has produced an expanded money-credit pyramid … created, transferred and destroyed across the global economy independently of the rest of the 'real' economy. This new …
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Economic Performance in the Americas compares the economic performances of Brazil, Mexico and the USA over the past … been for several decades. This book encompasses all sectors of the economy but focuses primarily on services, analysing … both the main trends in the various service industries in Brazil and Mexico and the underlying forces shaping their huge …
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This timely and authoritative book explains the rise and fall of economies in Asia, Central America and Europe since 1980 and discusses these crises in the context of continuing economic globalization. This updated and fully revised edition includes a detailed account of the Mexican crisis of...
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