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Contents -- Acknowledgement -- 1. Introduction: From Autism To Recognition -- 2. A Philosopher In Search For The Economy -- 3. The Utilitarian Paradigm -- 4. Recognizing The Truth: Human Action Beyond Utilitarianism -- 5. Economic Action, Happiness And Personalized Self-Interest -- 6. Rethinking...
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Starting with an overview of Modigliani's life, the authors explain and assess his influential theories, including his theory of the life-cycle hypothesis of saving; the famous Modigliani-Miller theorem in corporate finance; stabilisation policy; econometric model building and forecasting, and his...
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Chapter 1: Introduction: Luigi L. Pasinetti—A Leading Scholar of the Second Generation of the Cambridge School of Keynesian Economics -- Part I: Life and Research Activity of Luigi L. Pasinetti -- Chapter 2: Youth at Zanica, Bergamo, and Academic Studies at the Catholic University of Milan,...
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This book explores the life and work of Austrian-British economist, political economist, and social philosopher, Friedrich Hayek. Set within a context of the recent financial crisis, alongside the renewed interest in Hayek and the Hayek-Keynes debate, the book introduces the main themes of...
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Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) was a leading figure in the British classical school of economics, best-known for extending the insights of Adam Smith at a time of revolutionary improvements in agriculture and industry. This book explores the way in which he accounted for the tendency to...
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economics. With six chapters on themes in LSE economics and 29 chapters on the lives and work of LSE economists, this volume … shows how economics became established at the School, how it produced some of the world’s best-known economists, including … from a stellar cast, this volume provides economists - especially those interested in macroeconomics and the history of …
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, entrepreneurs, economists and financial scholars. The author demonstrates that by laying down the foundation of empirical analysis …
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have in shaping the contours of the discipline. The way in which economists face policy issues is in part driven, even if …
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This volume of intellectual biography records the work of Michał Kalecki’s maturity: his work on monetary economics and the theory of profits; his work on the problems of socialism and developing countries; and the extension of his theory of capitalism to define his work in relation to Keynes...
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themes in Cambridge economics and over 40 chapters on the lives and work of Cambridge economists, this volume shows how … economics became established at the university, how it produced some of the world's best-known economists, including John … volume provides economists - especially those interested in macroeconomics and the history of economic thought - with the …
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