Preface -- I. Introduction: What Experiments Can Do in the History of Economic Thought? : From Adam Smith to Vernon Smith -- II. Fairness Ideals, Hidden Selfishness and Opportunistic Behavior: Experimental Approach -- III. What is ‘Fair’ Distribution under Collaboration? : Evidences from...

In this work, Rutherford reviews why Adam Smith, Hayek, Mises and others praised economic markets, with a view to understanding, in contrast, historical attacks on markets dating as far back as Aristotle. The market has long been criticized as an inappropriate method of allocation, encouraging...

This book is a collection of specially commissioned chapters from philosophers, economists, political and behavioral economists, cognitive and organizational psychologists, computer scientists, sociologists and permutations thereof as befits the polymathic subject of this book Herbert Simon

Einleitung - Wie dieses Buch entstand und was es leisten soll -- Wirtschaft, Gerechtigkeit und Ethik -- Wirtschaften und Religion -- Wirtschaften als „richtiges" Handeln: Management -- Wirtschaftliche Techniken -- Wirtschaft und Staat -- Ökonomische Klassik, Neoklassik und Makroökonomie. -...

Anti-economics is described as the opposition to the main stream of economic thought that has existed from the Eighteenth-century to the present day. This book tells the story of anti-economics in relations to Smith, Ricardo, Mill, Walras, Keynes and Hicks as well as current economic thinkers....

Die Unternehmensbewertung im Wirkungsbereich von Interessengruppen -- Die Geschichte der Unternehmensbewertung -- Der Objektivismusstreit der modernen Bewertungslehre -- Der moderne Objektivismusstreit im Lichte der Interessentheorie -- Die Zusammenfassung der Ergebnisse und ein Ausblick.

Economists’ “Irrational Passion for Dispassionate Rationality” -- The Methodological Constraints on the Rationality Premise -- Human Motivation and Adam Smith’s “Invisible Hands” -- Rationality in Economic Thought: From Thomas Robert Malthus to Alfred Marshall and Philip Wicksteed --...

An exploration of Friedrich Hayek's contribution to the foundation of behavioural economics, and how his work interacted with and complemented that of his contemporaries. Chapters include detailed discussions of the concept of rationality, psychology and Hayek's philosophical theories as well as...

This book argues that Lionel Robbins’s construction of the economics field’s organizing cornerstone, scarcity-and all that has been derived from it from economists in Robbins’s time to today-no longer can generate general consent among economists. Since Robbins’ Essay, economists have...