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Founder of Modern Economics: Paul A. Samuelson
Volume 1: Becoming Samuelson, 1915-1948
Inbunden, 2017
477 kr
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Paul Samuelson was at the heart of a revolution in economics. He was "the foremost academic economist of the 20th century," according to the New York Times, and the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Economics. His work transformed the field of economics and helped give it the theoretical and …
The Economy of the Word
Language, History, and Economics
Av Keith Tribe
Inbunden, 2015
1943 kr
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It was only in the sixteenth century that texts began to refer to the significance of "economic activity"---of sustaining life. This was not because the ordinary business of life was thought unimportant, but because the principles governing economic conduct were thought to be obvious or …
The Political Economy of Progress
John Stuart Mill and Modern Radicalism
Inbunden, 2016
2038 kr
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While there had been much radical thought before John Stuart Mill, Joseph Persky argues it was Mill, as he moved to the left, who provided the radical wing of liberalism with its first serious analytical foundation, a political economy of progress that still echoes today. A rereading of Mill's …
Calculation and Morality
The Costs of Slavery and the Value of Emancipation in the French Antilles
Av Caroline Oudin-Bastide, Philippe Steiner
Inbunden, 2019
1903 kr
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Debates about whether to maintain or abolish slavery revolved around two key values: the morality of enslaving other human beings and the economic benefits and costs of slavery as compared to free labor. Various and conflicting arguments were presented by abolitionists, colonists, and …
Measuring Utility
From the Marginal Revolution to Behavioral Economics
Av Ivan Moscati
Inbunden, 2018
2045 kr
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Utility is a key concept in the economics of individual decision-making. However, utility is not measurable in a straightforward way. As a result, from the very beginning there has been debates about the meaning of utility as well as how to measure it. This book is an innovative investigation of …
Measuring Utility
From the Marginal Revolution to Behavioral Economics
Av Ivan Moscati
Häftad, 2019
548 kr
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Utility is a key concept in the economics of individual decision-making. However, utility is not measurable in a straightforward way. As a result, from the very beginning there has been debates about the meaning of utility as well as how to measure it. This book is an innovative investigation of …
Macroeconomics and the Phillips Curve Myth
Av James Forder
Inbunden, 2014
2633 kr
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This book reconsiders the role of the Phillips curve in macroeconomic analysis in the first twenty years following the famous work by A W H Phillips, after whom it is named. It argues that the story conventionally told is entirely misleading. In that story, Phillips made a great breakthrough but …
