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Nothing is Sacred: Economic Ideas for the New Millennium

Barro, Robert J. - The MIT Press

, he considers democracy, growth, and international policy, and in the final part he examines fiscal policy, monetary …

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Robert B. Ekelund Jr.; Hebert, Robert F.; Tollison, … - The MIT Press

This startlingly original (and sure to be controversial) account of the evolution of Christianity shows that the economics of religion has little to do with counting the money in the collection basket and much to do with understanding the background of today's religious and political divisions....

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Reasoning About Knowledge

Fagin, Ronald; Halpern, Joseph Y.; Moses, Yoram; Vardi, … - The MIT Press

Reasoning about knowledge—particularly the knowledge of agents who reason about the world and each other's knowledge—was once the exclusive province of philosophers and puzzle solvers. More recently, this type of reasoning has been shown to play a key role in a surprising number of contexts,...

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Economics and Psychology: A Promising New Cross-Disciplinary Field

Frey, Bruno S. (contributor); Stutzer, Alois (contributor) - The MIT Press

The integration of economics and psychology has created a vibrant and fruitful emerging field of study. The essays in Economics and Psychology take a broad view of the interface between these two disciplines, going beyond the usual focus on "behavioral economics." As documented in this volume,...

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Models of Bounded Rationality, Volume 1: Economic Analysis and Public Policy

Simon, Herbert A. - The MIT Press

The Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to Herbert Simon in 1978. At Carnegie Mellon University he holds the title of Professor of Computer Science and Psychology. These two facts together delineate the range and uniqueness of his contributions in creating meaningful interactions among fields...

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Economic Theory and Cognitive Science: Microexplanation

Ross, Don - The MIT Press

In this study, Don Ross explores the relationship of economics to other branches of behavioral science, asking, in the course of his analysis, under what interpretation economics is a sound empirical science. The book explores the relationships between economic theory and the theoretical...

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Science in History, Volume 4: The Social Sciences: A Conclusion

Bernal, J. D. - The MIT Press

J. D. Bernal's monumental work Science in History is the first full-scale attempt to analyze the relationship between science and society throughout history, from the perfection of the first flint hand ax to the construction of the hydrogen bomb. This remarkable study illustrates the impetus...

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Economics and Psychology: A Promising New Cross-Disciplinary Field

Frey, Bruno S. (contributor); Stutzer, Alois (contributor) - The MIT Press

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Wu Jinglian: Voice of Reform in China

Naughton; Barry; editor - The MIT Press

For more than thirty years, Wu Jinglian has been widely regarded as China's most celebrated and influential economist. In the late 1970s, Wu (b. 1930) was one of a small group of economic thinkers who broke with Marxist concepts and learned the principles of a market economy. Since then he has...

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Democracy, Governance, and Economic Performance: Theory and Evidence

Feng, Yi - The MIT Press

, specifically, the controversial question of the relationship between democracy and quality of life. Feng systematically studies … theory and country-specific case studies, Democracy, Governance, and Economic Performance demonstrates that political … the direct effects of the three key political variables on economic growth and the indirect effects of democracy in terms …

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