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The notion and interpretation of path dependence have been discussed and utilized in various social sciences during the last two decades. This innovative book provides significant new insights onto how the different applications of path dependence have developed and evolved. The authors suggest...
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Review, 94 (2), June, 251-67 -- James Mahoney (2000), 'Path Dependence in Historical Sociology', Theory and Society, 29 (4 …
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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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wars than peace : Pareto and English economists -- 6. A Unitarian reading of Pareto's paradoxes in the theory of choice …. This book reconstructs the genesis and significance of Pareto's theory of choice which is Pareto's greatest contribution to …
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adding to the existing thought in this area, with insights from game theory, rational choice under uncertainty and new …
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rationality. The analysis begins with the development of modern decision theory, covers the interwar debates over the role of … that the notion of rationality suffered a profound transformation that reduced it to a formal property of consistency. Such … of game and decision theory …
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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 …. This shift has produced new difficulties, and has undermined central tenets of neoclassical macroeconomic theory (such as …, not only in many aspects of the history of economic theory, but also in fundamental issues in the theories of value …
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