The transition from socialism to capitalism in former socialist economies is one of the main economic events of the … emphasis in economics from standard price and monetary theory to contracting and its institutional environment. Economic … initial conditions and on sustained political support. Unlike early policy literature on transition economics, which focused …

, epistemology, and probability theory. Each chapter deals with a topic of fundamental importance to a rigorous science of economics …Toward a Formal Science of Economics provides a unifying way to look at the concept of economic science. It lays a … foundation for the axiomatic method, focusing on applications in economics and econometrics, and including discussions in logic …

Game theory models are ubiquitous in economics, common in political science, and increasingly used in psychology and … worlds of literature, history, and philosophy. And yet, as Steven Brams shows, game theory can illuminate the rational … in law, history, and philosophy. Brams's strategic exegesis of texts helps the reader relate characters' goals to their …

János Kornai, a distinguished Hungarian economist, began his adult life as an ardent believer in socialism and then … behind the Iron Curtain to be openly critical of Soviet-style economics. Although it was attacked in Hungary, it was hailed … underpinning mainstream economic analyses of markets, Economics of Shortage (1980), The Road to a Free Economy (1990), and the …

In the nineteenth century, skeptics wondered whether socialism could succeed at all. After the Bolshevik Revolution … launched a first great experiment in building socialism, it was conceded that a socialist economy could indeed allocate the … change emerged as the chief topic of interest in economic circles, and socialism's potential for generating technological …

one of the world's leading experts on the economics of socialism and transition. An early advocate of reform in Hungary …

socialism could work. Stiglitz proposes an alternative model, based on the economics of information, that provides greater …The rapid collapse of socialism has raised new economic policy questions and revived old theoretical issues. In this …. Stiglitz sees the critical failing in the standard neoclassical model underlying market socialism to be its assumptions …

Janos Kornai, a distinguished Hungarian economist, began his adult life as an ardent believer in socialism and then … behind the Iron Curtain to be openly critical of Soviet-style economics. Although it was attacked in Hungary, it was hailed … underpinning mainstream economic analyses of markets, Economics of Shortage (1980), The Road to a Free Economy (1990), and the …

understanding of the current stage of international economics as well as crucial post-Marxist guidance for confronting capitalism in …This first English-language edition of Christian Marazzi's most recent book, The Violence of Financial Capitalism … theoretical tools necessary to comprehend capitalism today, offering an innovative analysis of financialization in the context of …