This book is an important addition to the emerging body of new work on capital. Its primary contribution is in analysing capital investment choice as a process. The understanding of this process requires some modification and significant extension to the standard neo-classical economic tools....

This comprehensive second edition of The Elgar Companion to Social Economics presents an overview of a dynamic and growing field in economics that emphasizes the key role that values play in the economy and in economic life. Social economics treats the economy and economics as being embedded in...

As this comprehensive Companion demonstrates, social economics is a dynamic and growing field that emphasizes the key role that values play in the economy and in economic life. Social economics treats the economy and economics as being embedded in the larger web of social and ethical...

1. The intellectual evolution of a non-economist : 1890-1900 -- 2. Pareto and Vailati : a forgotten exchange on choice and action -- 3. The methodological dispute between Pareto and Croce -- 4. Guidelines for Paretian methodology -- 5. More wars than peace : Pareto and English economists -- 6. A...

1. Introduction -- 2. Tools of the trade : rational choice -- 3. Religion -- 4. Greed, lust, sloth and waste -- 5. Envy and jealousy -- 6. Lies and deceit -- 7. Matters of life and death -- 8. Addiction -- 9. Adultery -- 10. Prostitution -- 11. Conclusion.

This book explores the pre-conditions for conflict in terms of growth failure and critically appraises the greed and grievance theories common to conflict literature. It is argued that various institutional mechanisms of restraint that can be labeled the 'social contract' are crucial for violent...

Choice modelling is an area of growing popularity as many researchers and consultants seek to find better ways to explain the choices made by individuals, households and firms in many application contexts such as transportation, health services, environmental science, marketing, finance,...