This two-volume set provides fundamental analyses of the relations between cultural variables and economic performance. It encompasses indispensable contributions by economists and other influential social scientists in this growing interdisciplinary area. The classic and more recent articles in...

This book provides the theoretical and analytical background critical to understand the process of economic development and growth at the beginning of the 21st century. This book adopts an interdisciplinary approach, using concepts borrowed from related disciplines such as politics,...

1. The Methodological Puzzle -- 2. Introduction to General and Integrated Development and Growth -- 3. Economic Action, Cultural Background and Institutions -- 4. Complex Economic Systems, Information and Forms of Capitalism -- 5. Politics and Governance -- 6. Uncertainty -- 7. Expectations --...

Computer und Roboter sind auch aus der Ökonomie nicht mehr wegzudenken. Und: Ihre Bedeutung wächst durch künstliche Intelligenz und Big Data rasant. Das wirkt sich auch auf unsere ökonomische Denkweise aus, etwa auf die Preisbildung und die Produktivität. Monopolisierungstendenzen sind...

This book sets the agenda to turn behavioral economics, which has long been considered a subordinate discipline, into mainstream economics. Ghisellini and Chang expose the conceptual and empirical inadequacy of conventional economics using illustrations of real world decision-making in a dynamic...

1. Introduction -- 2. Two beginnings -- 3. The "Big 3." Simon, Katona, Leibenstein -- 4. It didn't just happen overnight -- 5. Leibenstein before X-efficiency theory -- 6. X-efficiency. An intervening variable -- 7. Empirical research on XE: : c 1967-1990 -- 8. XE among US financial institutions...