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Economics and Ethics
An Introduction to Theory, Institutions, and Policy
AvDouglas Vickers
Inbunden, Engelska, 1997
841 kr
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Noted economist Douglas Vickers reexamines the relationship between economics and moral philosophy. That relationship, once very strong, is again the subject of increasing attention and discussion both within and beyond the academy. Vickers reestablishes the substantial bridges between ethical philosophy and economics. He addresses three main issues: first, the historical means by which economics has consciously surrendered its original association with ethical categories and criteria; second, the need to articulate the appropriate thoughtforms and vocabulary of ethical theory; and third, the illustration of areas in economics where ethical awareness is desirable and should be allowed to exert influence. This work is a major analysis which will be of considerable interest to economists, the business community, government regulators, and all concerned with economic decisionmaking in modern society.
Economics and Ethics
An Introduction to Theory, Institutions, and Policy
AvDouglas Vickers
Häftad, Engelska, 1997
507 kr
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Noted economist Douglas Vickers reexamines the relationship between economics and moral philosophy. That relationship, once very strong, is again the subject of increasing attention and discussion both within and beyond the academy. Vickers reestablishes the substantial bridges between ethical philosophy and economics. He addresses three main issues: first, the historical means by which economics has consciously surrendered its original association with ethical categories and criteria; second, the need to articulate the appropriate thoughtforms and vocabulary of ethical theory; and third, the illustration of areas in economics where ethical awareness is desirable and should be allowed to exert influence. This work is a major analysis which will be of considerable interest to economists, the business community, government regulators, and all concerned with economic decisionmaking in modern society.
Economics and Ethics
An Introduction to Theory, Institutions, and Policy
AvDouglas Vickers
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 1997
549 kr
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Noted economist Douglas Vickers reexamines the relationship between economics and moral philosophy. That relationship, once very strong, is again the subject of increasing attention and discussion both within and beyond the academy. Vickers reestablishes the substantial bridges between ethical philosophy and economics. He addresses three main issues: first, the historical means by which economics has consciously surrendered its original association with ethical categories and criteria; second, the need to articulate the appropriate thoughtforms and vocabulary of ethical theory; and third, the illustration of areas in economics where ethical awareness is desirable and should be allowed to exert influence. This work is a major analysis which will be of considerable interest to economists, the business community, government regulators, and all concerned with economic decisionmaking in modern society.
Tyranny of the Market
A Critique of Theoretical Foundations
AvDouglas Vickers
E-bok
Engelska, 2025
1 293 kr
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This book critically reviews and evaluates a number of central theoretical concepts that have shaped economists'' analysis of markets. In a rigorous discussion of the demand and supply sides of the market, Douglas Vickers questions the cogency of many of the established ideas and tools of economic analysis. The critique relies considerably on the significance of real historical time and the epistemic uniqueness of individuals in decision making. The author identifies deficiencies in the concepts of utility and its cognate -- preference orderings on the demand side of the market, and in marginal productivity and the related theory of income distribution on the supply side. Setting the critique of received traditions in historical perspective, The Tyranny of the Market reviews the bequests to contemporary theory of classical and neoclassical economics. The analytical problem of the place and significance of money in economic argument is addressed and the nonneutrality and substantial endogeneity of money are clarified. The book''s analysis of macromarket failure, or the failure of the market system to provide automatically for the full employment of economic resources, incorporates a monetary-flow model of the macroeconomy. Economic theorists and scholars in related disciplines will appreciate the originality of the book''s critique of the neoclassical and competing systems of thought.
Economics and the Antagonism of Time
Time, Uncertainty, and Choice in Economic Theory
AvDouglas Vickers
E-bok
Engelska, 2026
1 293 kr
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Presenting a rigorous examination of the place and significance of time in economic theory, Douglas Vickers takes up the interrelated issues of uncertainty, ignorance, and criteria of choice. In the discussion of these questions he explains that the conventional thought-forms of probability are not generally applicable to theory-building in economics. To remedy this he provides a completely new paradigm of choice.The extent to which time has influenced, or been excluded from, economic theory is discussed on four levels: the banishment of time in general equilibrium theory; the incorporation of logical time, in pseudotemporal dynamic analysis in some widely adopted mathematically structured systems; the construction of ceteris paribus dynamics based on conventionally determined behavior; and the analysis of in-time economics, or the results of incorporating into economic theorizing historic time, ignorance, and uncertainty in a nonprobabilistic sense. A scheme of choice and decision making is presented that incorporates the concept of “potential surprise” in place of probability.Economic theorists and scholars in related disciplines will appreciate the originality of the book’s critique of the neoclassical system; its tracing of some of the most relevant intellectual history that sets off the traditions of Keynes and the post-Keynesians from the neoclassical system; the clarification of the meaning of—and the dissent from—probability theorizing in economics; and the treatment of the relevant epistemological foundations of the subject.
Money Capital in the Theory of the Firm
A Preliminary Analysis
AvDouglas Vickers
Häftad, Engelska, 2005
557 kr
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The place of money capital in the theory of the firm has remained a relatively neglected question in traditions of economic analysis. In this highly integrative work, issues in production, pricing, capital investment and financial theory are brought to new levels of interdependence. Developing a three-part argument, Money Capital in the Theory of the Firm deals successively with the theoretical issues and analytic motivation, the neoclassical tradition and postclassical perspectives. In doing so, it presents a self-contained foundation in the basic structures of microeconomic analysis relating to optimize decision making in the firm and in the accounting concepts and statistical apparatus of probability theory relevant to the neoclassical aspects of the argument. Additionally, the book provides the essential mathematical development of such advanced topics as utility functions defined over stochastic arguments, the equilibrium theory of financial asset prices and yields, the cost of money capital, and investment decision criteria. This book makes an important contribution to the formation of new and analytically richer perspectives in the important area of economics it addresses. It will be of particular interest to those working in economic theory and microeconomics, and their advanced students.
Money Capital in the Theory of the Firm
A Preliminary Analysis
AvDouglas Vickers
Inbunden, Engelska, 1987
1 473 kr
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The place of money capital in the theory of the firm has remained a relatively neglected question in traditions of economic analysis. In this highly integrative work, issues in production, pricing, capital investment and financial theory are brought to new levels of interdependence. Developing a three-part argument, Money Capital in the Theory of the Firm deals successively with the theoretical issues and analytic motivation, the neoclassical tradition and postclassical perspectives. In doing so, it presents a self-contained foundation in the basic structures of microeconomic analysis relating to optimize decision making in the firm and in the accounting concepts and statistical apparatus of probability theory relevant to the neoclassical aspects of the argument. Additionally, the book provides the essential mathematical development of such advanced topics as utility functions defined over stochastic arguments, the equilibrium theory of financial asset prices and yields, the cost of money capital, and investment decision criteria. This book makes an important contribution to the formation of new and analytically richer perspectives in the important area of economics it addresses. It will be of particular interest to those working in economic theory and microeconomics, and their advanced students.
Financial Markets in the Capitalist Process
AvDouglas Vickers
Inbunden, Engelska, 1978
1 095 kr
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The preoccupation of financial theory with static, timeless, equilibrium analysis has given rise to an orthodoxy that avoids the problems of uncertainty in the world. This work establishes new perspectives from which contemporary financial theory can be evaluated. Echoing Keynes' observation that "Human decisions . . . cannot depend on strict mathematical expectation," Douglas Vickers explains why most decisions in economics and finance are not made under conditions to which the calculus of probability applies.The author proposes a "new realism" in financial theory that takes into account the uncertainty in personal and economic decisions. Both business firms and financial investors, he contends, acquire an important perspective on their alternatives by focusing on the transitional, disequilibrium processes in financial markets rather than on their sup posed equilibrium conditions. This involves for economic decisions an understanding of "time" as "historic" in a genuine operational sense rather than as merely a logical variable. The notion of probability should be replaced by that of possibility, the concept that the British economist G. L. S. Shackle has called "potential surprise."In Part I, Vickers' innovative approach leads to a careful study of the "false trading" that occurs in real and financial markets. Part II provides an exposition and an evaluation of the equilibrium theory of financial asset prices. The new analytical apparatus is applied in Part Ill to investment decision making in the firm and to the choice of financial asset portfolios, as well as to the questions of asset trading and changes in portfolio composition.A scholarly and constructive work, Financial Markets in the Capitalist Process will generate controversy among professionals and debate among students for many years to come.
Divine Purchase
AvDouglas Vickers
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
242 kr
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Divine Purchase
AvDouglas Vickers
E-bok
Engelska, 2015
404 kr
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The contemporary church exhibits an elasticity and diversity of doctrine that at times sits oddly with biblical foundations. The presuppositions that God is and that God has spoken too often give place to the assumed priority of the explanatory competence of human reason. In that, the theology of the church is captive to the thought forms of an Enlightenment rationalism on one hand, or the looseness of postmodernist assumptions of individual autonomy on the other. In those respects, theological argument proceeds from man to God, and not--as in its biblically revealed contours--from God to man. The Divine Purchase calls the church back to a clear commitment to the gospel of redemption. The kernel of the gospel resides in the apostolic statement that Christ "purchased the church with his own blood." That divinely ordained accomplishment projects the only remedy for the human condition in the present decaying culture and its intellectual uncertainty and confusion.
Divine Purchase
AvDouglas Vickers
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
401 kr
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When God Converts a Sinner
Confessional Perspectives on Justification and the Christian Life
AvDouglas Vickers
Inbunden, Engelska, 2008
408 kr
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Immediacy of God
AvDouglas Vickers
Inbunden, Engelska, 2009
424 kr
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Cross
Its Meaning and Message in a Postmodern World
AvDouglas Vickers
Inbunden, Engelska, 2010
408 kr
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Discovering the Christian Mind
Reason and Belief in Christian Confession
AvDouglas Vickers
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
420 kr
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Being and Belief
A Plain View of the Christian Confession
AvDouglas Vickers
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
386 kr
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Christian's Highest Good
AvDouglas Vickers
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
390 kr
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Cross
Its Meaning and Message in a Postmodern World
AvDouglas Vickers
E-bok
Engelska, 2010
369 kr
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A question has challenged the human conscience for two thousand years: How are we to explain the presence of Jesus Christ in this world? Or who, indeed, was Jesus Christ? A man like the rest of men? Or was he a divine Person? Why was it that well-practiced soldiers who failed to fulfill their commission to arrest him said: Never man spoke like this man? The early church confirmed the apostles'' declaration that Jesus Christ was the eternal Son of God and that he came into the world to fulfill a messianic-redemptive assignment. Christ Jesus, the apostle to the Gentiles explained, came into the world to save sinners.In The Cross: Its Meaning and Message in a Postmodern World, Douglas Vickers sees the cross as the watershed of history. The divine objectives that the cross addressed bear vitally on the human condition, vitiated as that is by the entailment of sin. In an age in which postmodernist claims have rejected absolute criteria of truth and validity, the Christ of the cross provides the only refuge for those burdened by the search for meaning. The Cross explores the way of reconciliation between God and man. It affirms the apostolic claim that In [Christ] are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
When God Converts a Sinner
Confessional Perspectives on Justification and the Christian Life
AvDouglas Vickers
E-bok
Engelska, 2008
373 kr
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In an age of theological innovation and doctrinal discount, the heritage of evangelical Reformed theology is in increasing danger of betrayal. Old established understandings of the faith once delivered to the saints are under attack, disturbing the peace of the church, tarnishing its witness, and challenging its purity. Against the pressures of newer fashions in thought, Douglas Vickers here returns to the seventeenth-century confessions of faith and illustrates from successive chapters common to three of those confessions the ways in which, and the reasons why, traditional beliefs and doctrinal constructions are to be preserved. Among questions examined with biblically informed insight are the relation between eternity and time and its significance for the gospel of redemption, the meaning and function of saving faith, the accomplishment of redemption by the incarnate Christ, the significance of his heavenly high priestly office, the high doctrine of the Christian believer''s union with Christ, and the implications these doctrinal realities hold for the Christian life.In a discussion of contemporary theologies, When God Converts a Sinner examines such innovations as the New Perspective on Paul, Federal Vision theology, Shepherdism, and other attempts to effect a paradigm shift in historically received theology.
Immediacy of God
AvDouglas Vickers
E-bok
Engelska, 2009
390 kr
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The confessing church in our time treats lightly the doctrinal deposit of its theological inheritance. The clamor of competition for the reconstruction of belief-systems has too often neglected older and more secure moorings. In a postmodern age that countenances individual belief-idiosyncrasies and accords them sanctity, the answer to the ordinary man''s question, What is the gospel? is often clouded and confused. Against doctrinal uncertainties and insecurities, The Immediacy of God brings back into prominence a number of foundational issues related to the doctrines of God and salvation, of theology and soteriology. In doing so, it anchors its thought-structure in the basic apologetic presupposition that God is, and in the fundamental hermeneutical principle of divine covenantal purpose. The originality of Vickers'' argument lies in its proposal of new perspectives on its chosen subject-range and, as it becomes necessary for the elucidation of biblical belief, its critical response to proposals for new theological paradigms. The organizing core of the book''s argument is its proposition regarding the immediacy of God in his being, his knowledge, his will, and his actions. That core proposition spills its influence to aspects of human salvation. On such levels, questions are raised that strike to the heart of the meaning of the divinely instituted redemptive process. Divine actions within that process are understood to be immediate, rather than mediate. Redemptive actions of God are immediate in the sense that no mediating causes exist between those actions and their effects and outcomes in the human condition.
Financial Markets in the Capitalist Process
AvDouglas Vickers
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2016
1 347 kr
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The preoccupation of financial theory with static, timeless, equilibrium analysis has given rise to an orthodoxy that avoids the problems of uncertainty in the world. This work establishes new perspectives from which contemporary financial theory can be evaluated. Echoing Keynes'' observation that "Human decisions . . . cannot depend on strict mathematical expectation," Douglas Vickers explains why most decisions in economics and finance are not made under conditions to which the calculus of probability applies.The author proposes a "new realism" in financial theory that takes into account the uncertainty in personal and economic decisions. Both business firms and financial investors, he contends, acquire an important perspective on their alternatives by focusing on the transitional, disequilibrium processes in financial markets rather than on their sup posed equilibrium conditions. This involves for economic decisions an understanding of "time" as "historic" in a genuine operational sense rather than as merely a logical variable. The notion of probability should be replaced by that of possibility, the concept that the British economist G. L. S. Shackle has called "potential surprise."In Part I, Vickers'' innovative approach leads to a careful study of the "false trading" that occurs in real and financial markets. Part II provides an exposition and an evaluation of the equilibrium theory of financial asset prices. The new analytical apparatus is applied in Part Ill to investment decision making in the firm and to the choice of financial asset portfolios, as well as to the questions of asset trading and changes in portfolio composition.A scholarly and constructive work, Financial Markets in the Capitalist Process will generate controversy among professionals and debate among students for many years to come.
Belief and Evangelism
AvDouglas Vickers
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
231 kr
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Belief and Evangelism
AvDouglas Vickers
Inbunden, Engelska, 2018
412 kr
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Belief and Evangelism
AvDouglas Vickers
E-bok
Engelska, 2018
339 kr
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The church''s witness to the world falters in an age of doctrinal uncertainty, emerging experiments of life forms and behavior norms, and consequent cultural pressures. Against the disturbing influences that result, two questions demand response as the church''s relation to conflicting intellectual fashions is brought under scrutiny. First, on the level of belief foundations, what is to be understood as the deposit of truth that has been entrusted to the church in the gospel it has historically been set to declare? Second, on the level of actual testimony and procedure, to what extent is the doctrinal foundations it professes reflected in the statements the church inserts into the competing complex of explanatory systems. What, it is to be asked, is the place, office, function, and authority of the church in the cultural nexus into which the divine mandate that defines the church has placed it?In Belief and Evangelism Douglas Vickers addresses insightfully many of the relationships that result from the bearing of those questions on the integrity of the church in its professed belief and evangelism. Numerous questions that arise from those relationships demand expanded consideration in a full-orbed statement of the gospel.
When God Converts a Sinner
Confessional Perspectives on Justification and the Christian Life
AvDouglas Vickers
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
240 kr
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Texture of Truth
AvDouglas, Vickers
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
257 kr
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Immediacy of God
AvDouglas Vickers
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
253 kr
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Cross
AvDouglas Vickers
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
242 kr
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Discovering the Christian Mind
Reason and Belief in Christian Confession
AvDouglas Vickers
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
254 kr
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Being and Belief
A Plain View of the Christian Confession
AvDouglas Vickers
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
231 kr
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Douglas Vickers – författare

Economics and Ethics

Economics and Ethics

Economics and Ethics

Tyranny of the Market

Economics and the Antagonism of Time

Money Capital in the Theory of the Firm

Money Capital in the Theory of the Firm

Financial Markets in the Capitalist Process

Divine Purchase

Divine Purchase

Divine Purchase

When God Converts a Sinner

Immediacy of God

Cross

Discovering the Christian Mind

Being and Belief

Christian's Highest Good

Cross

When God Converts a Sinner

Immediacy of God

Financial Markets in the Capitalist Process

Belief and Evangelism

Belief and Evangelism

Belief and Evangelism

When God Converts a Sinner

Texture of Truth

Immediacy of God

Cross

Discovering the Christian Mind

Being and Belief