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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473904
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473922
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013331164
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473818
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473825
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473846
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473888
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473902
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473929
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Ethics and economic theory : ideas, models, dilemmas
Rothschild, Kurt Wilhelm - 1993
This distinguished book provides a critical assessment of the relationship between economic theory, scientific …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473941