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Since the 1980s there has been a renewed interest in attempts to introduce a sense of history into economic literature … time. Many of these notable contributors argue that the study of the history of economic thought is important in two ways … history and secondly, because it helps us to understand the present state of economics as being itself the outcome of a path …
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This book brings together John Creedy's most important essays on the history of economic analysis. The book contributes …
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policy, growth theory, environmental economics, technical change and the history of economic thought and methodology. The … theory and policy. In particular, they follow in the tradition of his work on oligopoly and price theory, welfare theory and … the history of economic thought, discussing the writings of David Ricardo, the German historical school, Herbert Robinson …
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, evolutionary, and feminist approaches, recent studies of capital as power, modern money theory, behavioural economics, social …
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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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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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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 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 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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This distinguished book provides a critical assessment of the relationship between economic theory, scientific …
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