Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: theory and debate in political economy - antecedents and developments -- 1. Adam Smith: a wealth of notions -- 2. Karl Marx: a capital idea -- 3. William Stanley Jevons: the new margins of economics and the...

Introduction -- The Basic Assumptions of Traditional Economics -- An Initial Interim Conclusion -- A Discourse Analytical Examination of Some Fundamental Assumptions and Concepts in Economics -- A Second Interim Conclusion -- Summary and Outlook -- Conclusion and Outlook.

In previous work, Gregory K. Dow created a broad and accessible overview of worker-controlled firms. In his new book, The Labor-Managed Firm: Theoretical Foundations, Dow provides the formal models that underpinned his earlier work, while developing promising new directions for economic...

Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments; Part I. Introductory Themes: 1. Introduction; Part II. The Discussion Tradition: 2. On 'strongly fortified minds': self-restraint and cooperation in the discussion tradition; 3. The Knightian moment; 4. The rise of new welfare economics: an end...

The orthodox view of economic policy holds that public deliberation sets the goals or ends, and then experts select the means to implement these goals. This assumes that experts are no more than trustworthy servants of the public interest. David M. Levy and Sandra J. Peart examine the historical...

The Selected Letters of John Kenneth Galbraith invites readers to join in conversations with presidents and first ladies, diplomats and schoolchildren, the McCarthy 'loyalty board', foreign heads of state and fellow economists, and a host of other correspondents. In his long and cosmopolitan...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Economics before Keynes, I: Hume -- 2 Keynes at Versailles -- 3 Keynes and the Macmillan Committee -- 4 Economics before Keynes, II: Marshall -- 5 The General Theory -- 6 IS-LM Curves -- 7 The Liquidity Trap -- 8 Bretton Woods and the Swan Diagram -- 9 The...

Begrenzung, Einschränkung oder gar Schrumpfung sind als Angstbegriffe verpönt. Doch genau das werden wir brauchen, um die Ökosysteme nicht noch stärker zu schädigen. Ein anderes Wirtschaften ist dringend nötig, und es ist - wie der Transformationsforscher Hans Holzinger zeigt - auch...