Erudite, accessible and lucidly written, this book provides a stimulating introduction to the careers and main published works of the Nobel Memorial Laureates in Economics. It will prove to be an invaluable reference book on key figures in economics and their path-breaking insights. The...

Probably no region's economists have had greater public visibility or greater impact on regional and national public policy than Latin America's and no region has been more directly affected by the spread of US economics. Economists in the Americas joins a small but important comparative...

Economists and theologians usually inhabit different intellectual worlds. Economists investigate the workings of markets and tend to set ethical questions aside. Theologians, anxious to take up concerns raised by market outcomes, often dismiss economics and lose insights into the influence of...

Ziel dieses Buches ist es, mehr Verständnis bei Anlegern, Managern und Studierenden für die wechselseitigen Abhängigkeiten zwischen Wirtschaft und Finanzmärkten zu wecken. Anlegern soll das Buch die wirtschaftlichen Erfolgs- und Risikofaktoren ihrer Kapitalanlage an Finanzmärkten...

Das Buch vermittelt volkswirtschaftliches Basiswissen und ist auf das Studium an den Hochschulen für öffentliche Verwaltung ausgerichtet.Anschaulich und lebensnah werden die grundlegendenden Zusammenhänge der VWL, Wertschöpfung und Volkswirtschaftliche Gesamtrechnung, Preisbildung und...

The economic crisis is also a crisis for economic theory. Most analyses of the evolution of the crisis invoke three themes, contagion, networks and trust, yet none of these play a major role in standard macroeconomic models. What is needed is a theory in which these aspects are central. The...

This highly illuminating book marks a significant stage in our growing understanding of how the development of national traditions of economic thought has been affected by both internal and external factors