1. The historical evolution of the theory of the entrepreneur; Mariano Castro Valdivia. University of Jaen -- 2. How to do business in Castile: trade and financial companies (15th-16th centuries); David Carvajal. University of Valladolid -- 3. Simón Ruiz: a great entrepreneur in 16th-century...

This book brings together for the first time more than half a dozen proposals, including several which have never been studied before, to show how thinkers on empire drew on monetary thought and banking theory to address the financial, political and constitutional challenges of empire in the...

1. The economic way of thinking -- 2. The economics of consumption -- 3. The economics of production and growth -- 4. Cost theorizing and supply curves -- 5. Competition and its enemies -- 6. Taxation, regulation and factor markets -- 7. Money and banking -- 8. International trade -- 9. Exchange...

Behavioural public policy has thus far been dominated by approaches that are based on the premise that it is entirely legitimate for policymakers to design policies that nudge or influence people to avoid desires that may not be in their own self- interest. This book argues, instead, for a...

Complexity science-made possible by modern analytical and computational advances-is changing the way we think about social systems and social theory. Unfortunately, economists' policy models have not kept up and are stuck in either a market fundamentalist or government control narrative. While...

Frontmatter -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- Einleitung -- 1. Kennzeichnung dynamischer Systeme und Modelle -- 2. Formen und Erschließungsmethoden dynamischer MZÄ-Modelle -- 3. System Dynamics - ein Modellierungskonzept dynamischer Systeme -- 4. Rechnergestützte Systeme zur Entwicklung und Analyse...