This chapter focuses on how the problems of economic development were addressed by the Portuguese historiography of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The ensuing discussion benefits from the simultaneous consideration of two historiographical domains that complement each other:...

In October 1956, the RAND Corporation establis hed the Logistics Systems Laboratory (LSL) with the goal of using simulation to translate the broad findings of normative microeconomics into detailed, implementable pr ocedures for US Air Force oper ations. The laboratory was housed in the training...

Vincent Ostrom's legacy is revisited in this paper along three dimensions: Ostrom's contributions as a historian of politico-economic thought, as a complexity theorist, and as an epistemologist. All three dimensions are captured from a perspective which has seldom been studied systematically...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. An Overall View of Concordian Economics -- Chapter 3. Concordian Economics: Tools to Return Relevance to Economics -- Chapter 4. From the Revision of Keynes’ Model to Economics for Physicists and Ecologists -- Chapter 5. From the Logic of Mainstream...

Chapter 1. Opening our Minds to Concordian Economics -- Part I. Intellectual Interdependence -- Chapter 2. Politics and Economics -- Chapter 3. The Interdependence of Economic Rights and Responsibilities -- Chapter 4. Peaceful March Toward Concordianism - With a Graceful Walk Away from 1%...