Essays in Economic Theory (Routledge Revivals)

Essays in Economic Theory (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Vincent Crawford

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-08-11

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13: 1317511069

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Essays in Economic Theory, first published in 1983, combines two essays on game theory and its applications in economics. The first, "Learning Behavior and the Noncooperative Equilibrium", considers whether an adaptive justification, like those commonly available for the optimization models frequently employed elsewhere in economics, can be found for the Nash noncooperative equilibrium. The second essay, "A Game of Fair Division", was motivated by the desire to find attractive methods for solving allocation problems and bargaining disputes that are simple enough to provide useful alternatives to existing methods. It studies in detail one such simple method: the classical "divide-and-choose" procedure. This book will be of interest to students of economics.


Economic Efficiency and Social Welfare (Routledge Revivals)

Economic Efficiency and Social Welfare (Routledge Revivals)

Author: E. J. Mishan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-13

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 1136629556

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First published in 1981, Professor Mishan’s Economic Efficiency and Social Welfare: Selected Essays on Fundamental Aspects of the Economic Theory of Social Welfare is a collection of 22 pioneering essays written while the author was teaching at the London School of Economics and chosen to indicate landmarks in the development of his own thought. Professor Mishan, who also enjoys an international reputation as a popular writer on the impact of modern economic growth on social welfare, is among the foremost authorities in the field of resource allocation, and his influence in his subject area has been profound. Mishan’s essays, while generally accessible to the layman due to the author’s lucidity, his economy in the use of mathematical notation and his concern with perspective, are invaluable reading for the economics undergraduate. The essays are particularly relevant to upper level students of project appraisal, welfare economics and cost benefit analysis requiring a coherent survey of their field of study.


Microeconomic Analysis (Routledge Revivals)

Microeconomic Analysis (Routledge Revivals)

Author: David Currie

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-20

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13: 1317214889

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First published in 1981, this book brings together a collection of essays on microeconomics and development presented at the conference of the Association of University Teachers of Economics. Topics covered include the intergenerational transfer of economic inequality, a review of the recent development in the theory of equity in the economy’s distribution and production process, labour and unemployment, market structure and international trade, taxation and the public sector, Third World industrialisation and Indian agriculture. This book will be of interest to students of Economics and Development Studies.


The Transformation of England (Routledge Revivals)

The Transformation of England (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Peter Mathias

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-04-03

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 1136464395

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First published in 1979, The Transformation of England discusses the creation in late eighteenth century England of the industrial system and thereby the present world. Professor Mathias poses questions about the nature of industrialization, social change and historical explanation, issues that are his principal scholarly concern. This series of essays is divided into two groups. The first group of essays focuses upon general themes such as the 'uniqueness' in Europe of the industrial revolution, capital formation, taxation, the growth of skills, science and technical change, leisure and wages, and diagnoses of poverty. In the second section, Professor Mathias focuses on the social structure in the eighteenth century, considering the industrialization of brewing, coinage, agriculture and the drink industries, advances in public health and the armed forces, British and American public finance in the War of Independence, Dr Johnson and the business world.


Engels Revisited (Routledge Revivals)

Engels Revisited (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Janet Sayers

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 1135155585

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This reissued work, first published in 1987, examines the problematic and divisive attitudes which bourgeois and socialist feminists take to the question of the links between patriarchy and capitalism and the importance of class conflict as a major cause of women's subordination. Engels still occcupies a central role in this debate and feminists writing in the hundred years since the publication of The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State frequently turn to this book in an attempt to find validation for their central argument. The contributors to this volume reconsider Engels' theories and review evidence from those societies that have attempted to implement his belief that the key to the emancipation of women lies in their entry to social production.


Southeast Asia (Routledge Revivals)

Southeast Asia (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Richard Higgott

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-31

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1134621485

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The articles in this edited collection, first published in 1985, consider the competing theories of the nature of development and underdevelopment in Southeast Asia. Each chapter challenges the academic orthodoxies and dominant traditions of Southeast Asian studies, particularly in relation to orientalist history, behaviourist political science and development economics. Overall, the contributions offer an alternative framework for analysis, which considers the structural changes to the political economy of Southeast Asia, as well as the relationship between the state, economy and class at a domestic level. This is a fascinating collection, of value to students and academics with an interest in Southeast Asian politics, economics and history.


Economic Essays by David Ricardo (Routledge Revivals)

Economic Essays by David Ricardo (Routledge Revivals)

Author: E. C. K. Gonner

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-09-13

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 1134481489

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David Ricardo (1772 – 1823) was a hugely influential British political economist and stock trader. This volume, first published in 1923, contains five important pamphlets published by him, edited and with an overarching introductory essay by E. C. K. Gonner. Each essay relates either to monetary and financial subjects - including the high price of Bullion, monetary theory and the position of the Bank of England - or to the agricultural conditions of Britain and proposed solutions to the problems discussed. This is a fascinating and detailed work, which will be of great value to those with an interest in Ricardo’s theories and British economic history.


The Value Dimension (Routledge Revivals)

The Value Dimension (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Ben Fine

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-02

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 1135040397

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The essays in this edited collection, first published in 1986, focus on important debates surrounding the central Marxian problem of the transformation of values into prices. The collection brings together major contributions on the value theory debate from the decade prior to the book’s publication, and assesses the debate’s significance for wider issues. Value theory emerges as much more than a technical relation between labour time and prices, and the structure of the capitalist economy is scrutinised. This is a relevant and comprehensive work, valuable to students, academics and professionals with an interest in political and Marxist economy.


Marxist Political Economy

Marxist Political Economy

Author: Geoffrey Pilling

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0415678528

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Little has been written about the colonists sent by Spanish authorities to settle the northern frontier of New Spain, to stake Spain's claim and serve as a buffer against encroaching French explorers. "Los Paisanos," they were called--simple country people who lived by their own labor, isolated, threatened by hostile Indians, and restricted by law from seeking opportunity elsewhere. They built their homes, worked their fields, and became permanent residents.