This book offers a comprehensive analysis of dynamic networks and evolutionary variational inequalities, a topic of growing prominence in the study of networks. The extraordinary importance of networks in finance, mathematics, computer science and other areas is well known but the relatively new...

This collection of essays examines the methodological problems confronting economists in the face of two major developments in the second half of the twentieth century. The first is the vast increase in the number and variety of writings on the methodology or ‘philosophy’ of economics,...

This new critical edition makes the Lectures, which have sometimes been referred to by Marshallian scholars, available to a wider body of historians of economic thought. Based on Mary Paley Marshall’s original notes, corrected by Marshall himself, the Lectures are supplemented by Marshall’s...

Ergonomics (ergos – work; nomos – laws) and Human Factors have almost identical characteristics and identities and have both developed in similar ways, within the same period, and for the same reasons. The Ergonomics philosophy is the amalgamation of information from psychology, physiology...

The Makers of Modern Economics Volume III follows on from the two previous volumes in presenting the intellectual development of some of this century’s most influential economists. The first volume in this series was acclaimed by Professor David Audretsch as ‘a unique insight into the...

Is the theory of money that underlies most modern macroeconomics well-grounded? What determines the value of a currency, and how is the state’s power over its currency related to its ability to stabilize prices and employment? Charles Goodhart’s classic paper ‘The Two Concepts of Money:...

James Tobin was America’s most distinguished Keynesian economist, whose path-breaking theoretical work has demonstrated that Keynes’s original theories can be adapted to deal with modern macroeconomic problems. This significant volume presents a selection of those papers which in Professor...

In the context of a deepening of financial integration in the European Union, this book – the third in this series, edited by Nobel Laureate Robert Solow – examines precisely how the rules governing finance are constructed, how they are interpreted and how they are challenged. It...

This book uses the framework of Islamic economics – a discipline that analyses economic problems with reference to the methodology of Islam – to examine some contemporary issues. The topics considered include; an Islamic perspective on the global financial crisis, Islamic corporate governance,...