Intro -- _Hlk489962505 -- _Hlk505371102 -- _Hlk505347516 -- The author -- Foreword -- 1 Introduction -- This book -- Microeconomics and macroeconomics -- Sources -- References -- 2 Market structures and incentives -- Meat and potato pies and the Nobel Prize in economics -- Incentives, scarce...

Using the statistical technique of fuzzy clustering, regimes of inflation and unemployment are explored for the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany between 1871 and 2009. We identify for each country three distinct regimes in inflation/unemployment space. Similarities exist across...

Darwinian studies of collective human behaviour, which deal fluently with change and are grounded in the details of social influence among individuals, have much to offer “social” models from the physical sciences which have elegant statistical regularities. Although Darwinian evolution is...

Effective communication strategies regarding health issues are affected by the way in which the public obtain their knowledge, particularly whether people become interested independently, or through their social networks. This is often investigated through localized ethnography or surveys. In...