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Von Neumann, Morgenstern, and the Creation of Game Theory
From Chess to Social Science, 1900-1960
Häftad, 2012
672 kr
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Drawing on a wealth of archival material, including personal correspondence and diaries, Robert Leonard tells the fascinating story of the creation of game theory by Hungarian Jewish mathematician John von Neumann and Austrian economist Oskar Morgenstern. Game theory first emerged amid discussions …
Von Neumann, Morgenstern, and the Creation of Game Theory
From Chess to Social Science, 1900-1960
Inbunden, 2010
2029 kr
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Drawing on a wealth of archival material, including personal correspondence and diaries, Robert Leonard tells the fascinating story of the creation of game theory by Hungarian Jewish mathematician John von Neumann and Austrian economist Oskar Morgenstern. Game theory first emerged amid discussions …
More Heat than Light
Economics as Social Physics, Physics as Nature's Economics
Häftad, 1991
838 kr
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More Heat Than Light is a history of how physics has drawn some inspiration from economics and also how economics has sought to emulate physics, especially with regard to the theory of value. It traces the development of the energy concept in Western physics and its subsequent effect upon the …
Radical Expectations
How the New Left Changed Economics
Av Tiago Mata
Häftad, 2026
684 kr
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In the 1970s radical economists campaigned to reform their discipline and their universities. They became journalists and activists, moving beyond academia, to forge new models of public engagement and collaborative knowledge in economic life. Radical Expectations tells the story of how these …
International Organizations and the Analysis of Economic Policy, 1919-1950
Av Anthony M. Endres, Grant A. Fleming m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
787 kr
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This 2002 book expands our understanding of the distinctive policy analysis produced between 1919 and 1950 by economists and other social scientists for four major international organizations: the League of Nations, the International Labor Organization, the Bank for International Settlements, and …
Theory and Measurement
Causality Issues in Milton Friedman's Monetary Economics
Av J. Daniel Hammond, Craufurd Goodwin
Häftad, 2005
623 kr
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Focusing on the period of Milton Friedman's collaboration with Anna J. Schwartz, from 1948 to 1991, this 1996 work examines the history of debates between Friedman and his critics over money's causal role in business cycles. Professor Hammond shows that critics' reactions were grounded in two …
Origins of Law and Economics
The Economists' New Science of Law, 1830-1930
Av Heath Pearson, Craufurd Goodwin
Häftad, 2005
804 kr
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This work analyzes the centrality of law in nineteenth-century historical and institutional economics and is a prehistory to the new institutional economics of the late twentieth century. In the 1830s the 'new science of law' aimed to explain the working rules of human society by using the …
Equilibrium Business Cycle Theory in Historical Perspective
Häftad, 2006
586 kr
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This 1988 book presents a historical investigation of the theoretical development of contemporary Equilibrium Business Cycle Theory (EBCT). The author examines the central features of the EBCT by tracing both the history of business cycle theory and the history of econometrics. These historical …
The Stockholm School of Economics Revisited
Av Lars Jonung
Häftad, 2006
720 kr
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In this volume leading scholars look at the heritage and impact of the important work done by the Stockholm School from the 1920s to the present. The first part of The Stockholm School of Economics Revisited covers the early years and is followed by an extensive review of the approaches to …
The Evolving Rationality of Rational Expectations
An Assessment of Thomas Sargent's Achievements
Av Esther-Mirjam Sent, Craufurd Goodwin
Häftad, 2006
921 kr
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Inspired by recent developments in science studies, this book offers an innovative type of analysis of the recent history of rational expectations economics. In the course of exploring the multiple dimensions of rational expectations analysis, Professor Sent focuses on the work of Thomas Sargent, …
International Monetary Economics, 1870-1960
Between the Classical and the New Classical
Av M. June Flanders, Craufurd D. Goodwin
Häftad, 2006
838 kr
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This is a history of international monetary thought from the end of the nineteenth to the middle of the twentieth century. It provides a comprehensive survey of the literature produced on international macroeconomics for that period. It will be of interest to teachers of and graduate students in …
The Legacy of Scholasticism in Economic Thought
Antecedents of Choice and Power
Av Odd Langholm, Craufurd D. Goodwin
Häftad, 2006
820 kr
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This book studies the development of ideas on freedom, coercion and power in the history of economic thought. It focuses on the exchange of goods and services and on terms of exchange (interest rates, prices and wages) and examines the nature of choice, that is, the state of the will of economic …
Designs within Disorder
Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Economists, and the Shaping of American Economic Policy, 1933-1945
Av William J. Barber, Craufurd D. Goodwin
Häftad, 2006
720 kr
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More than any of his predecessors in the White House, Franklin D. Roosevelt drew heavily on the thinking of economists as he sought to combat the Great Depression, to mobilize the American economy for war, and to chart a new order for the post-war world. Designs Within Disorder, published in 1996, …
Schumpeter and the Idea of Social Science
A Metatheoretical Study
Häftad, 2007
905 kr
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This book is a comprehensive investigation of the work of Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883-1950), one of the great economists of the twentieth century. In this study, Yuichi Shionoya highlights Schumpeter's methodological views and emphasizes his ideal of a universal social science. Taking on board …
Pinochet's Economists
The Chicago School of Economics in Chile
Häftad, 2008
586 kr
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This book tells the extraordinary story of the Pinochet regime's economists, known as the Chicago Boys. It explores the roots of their ideas and their sense of mission, following their training as economists at the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago. After their return to Chile, …
English Historical Economics, 1870-1926
The Rise of Economic History and Neomercantilism
Häftad, 2008
586 kr
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In the first comprehensive and full-length study of the English historical economists, Gerard Koot traces their revolt against the theory, policy recommendations and academic dominance of classical and neoclassical economics in Britain between 1870 and 1926. English Historical Economics, 1870-1926 …
William Stanley Jevons and the Making of Modern Economics
Av Harro Maas
Häftad, 2010
687 kr
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The Victorian polymath William Stanley Jevons (1835-82) is generally and rightly venerated as one of the great innovators of economic theory and method in what came to be known as the 'marginalist revolution'. This book is an investigation into the cultural and intellectual resources that Jevons …
Ricardo's Macroeconomics
Money, Trade Cycles, and Growth
Häftad, 2010
586 kr
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The outline of modern macroeconomics took shape in Britain in the early nineteenth century thanks, in part, to David Ricardo, one of the most influential economists of the time. Britain was challenged by monetary inflation, industrial unemployment and the loss of jobs abroad. Ricardo pointed the …
Monetary Theory and Policy from Hume and Smith to Wicksell
Money, Credit, and the Economy
Av Arie Arnon
Inbunden, 2010
1291 kr
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This book provides a comprehensive survey of the major developments in monetary theory and policy from David Hume and Adam Smith to Walter Bagehot and Knut Wicksell. In particular, it seeks to explain why it took so long for a theory of central banking to penetrate mainstream thought. The book …
Economic Theories in a Non-Walrasian Tradition
Inbunden, 1985
1844 kr
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This book covers a broad range of topics in the history of economics that have relevance to economic theories. The author believes that one of the tasks for a historian of economics is to analyze and interpret theories currently outside the mainstream of economic theory, in this case non-Walrasian …
Equilibrium Business Cycle Theory in Historical Perspective
Inbunden, 1988
1005 kr
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This 1988 book presents a historical investigation of the theoretical development of contemporary Equilibrium Business Cycle Theory (EBCT). The author examines the central features of the EBCT by tracing both the history of business cycle theory and the history of econometrics. These historical …
International Monetary Economics, 1870-1960
Between the Classical and the New Classical
Av M. June Flanders, Craufurd Goodwin
Inbunden, 1990
2247 kr
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This is a history of international monetary thought from the end of the nineteenth to the middle of the twentieth century. It provides a comprehensive survey of the literature produced on international macroeconomics for that period. It will be of interest to teachers of and graduate students in …
From New Era to New Deal
Herbert Hoover, the Economists, and American Economic Policy, 1921-1933
Av William J. Barber, Craufurd Goodwin
Häftad, 1989
569 kr
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In popular imagery, Herbert Hoover is often stereotyped as a 'do-nothing' president who offered only nineteenth-century slogans for the greatest economic catastrophe in twentieth-century American history. Nothing could be further from the truth. This study examines the properties of an innovative …
Economic Theories in a Non-Walrasian Tradition
Häftad, 1989
524 kr
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This book covers a broad range of topics in the history of economics that have relevance to economic theories. The author believes that one of the tasks for a historian of economics is to analyze and interpret theories currently outside the mainstream of economic theory, in this case non-Walrasian …
The Stockholm School of Economics Revisited
Av Lars Jonung
Inbunden, 1991
2254 kr
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In this volume leading scholars look at the heritage and impact of the important work done by the Stockholm School from the 1920s to the present. The first part of The Stockholm School of Economics Revisited covers the early years and is followed by an extensive review of the approaches to …
The History of Econometric Ideas
Av Mary S. Morgan, Craufurd Goodwin
Häftad, 1991
754 kr
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The History of Econometric Ideas covers the period from the late-nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century, illustrating how economists first learnt to harness statistical methods to measure and test the 'laws' of economics. Though scholarly, Dr Morgan's book is very accessible and …
Schumpeter and the Idea of Social Science
A Metatheoretical Study
Inbunden, 1997
1626 kr
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This book is a comprehensive investigation of the work of Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883-1950), one of the great economists of the twentieth century. In this study, Yuichi Shionoya highlights Schumpeter's methodological views and emphasizes his ideal of a universal social science. Taking on board …
Natural Images in Economic Thought
Markets Read in Tooth and Claw
Inbunden, 1994
2902 kr
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This 1994 collection of interdisciplinary essays was the first to investigate how images in the history of the natural and physical sciences have been used to shape the history of economic thought. The contributors, historians of science and economics alike, document the extent to which scholars …
Austrian Economics in America
The Migration of a Tradition
Av Karen I. Vaughn, Craufurd Goodwin
Inbunden, 1994
1861 kr
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This 1994 book examines the development of the ideas of the new Austrian school from its beginnings in Vienna in the 1870s to the present. It focuses primarily in showing how the coherent theme that emerges from the thought of Carl Menger, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, Ludwig Lachman, Israel …
Pinochet's Economists
The Chicago School of Economics in Chile
Av Juan Gabriel Valdes, Craufurd Goodwin
Inbunden, 1995
1928 kr
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This book tells the extraordinary story of the Pinochet regime's economists, known as the Chicago Boys. It explores the roots of their ideas and their sense of mission, following their training as economists at the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago. After their return to Chile, …
