Economics in the Twentieth Century

Economics in the Twentieth Century
Author: Theo Suranyi-Unger
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 423
Release: 2013-10-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134559674

This book discusses the history of economic theories, drawing largely from periodical literature, which is often hard to obtain. The book is divided into sections along linguistic lines (German, Romance and English speaking countries).

The Economic Reader

The Economic Reader
Author: Massimo M. Augello
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2012-08-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136654984

The book studies the origins and evolution of economic textbooks in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, up to the turning point represented by Paul Samuelson’s Economics (1948), which became the template for all the textbooks of the postwar period. The case studies included in the book cover a large part of Europe, the British Commonwealth, the United States and Japan. Each chapter examines various types of textbooks, from those aimed at self-education to those addressed to university students, secondary school students, to the short manuals aimed at the popularisation of political economy among workers and the middle classes. An introductory chapter examines this phenomenon in a comparative and transnational perspective.

Total Science

Total Science
Author: Jean-Guy Prévost
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2009-09-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 0773577017

In A Total Science, Jean-Guy Prévost charts how Italian statistics emerged as a full-fledged discipline, giving rise to a network of university chairs, journals, and other institutions. He focuses on episodes such as the creation of the famous Gini coefficient and the statisticians' participation in Italy's war effort and also analyses the intellectual project to which most statisticians were committed, that of creating a quantitative social science. In doing so he reveals the political and ideological use of the work of statisticians during the Fascist era.

Money and Markets

Money and Markets
Author: Maria Cristina Marcuzzo
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 513
Release: 2007-04-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134175035

This book brings together fourteen essays by leading authors in the field of economics to explore the relationship between money and markets throughout economic theory and history, providing readers with the key to understanding fundamental issues in monetary theory and other important debates in contemporary economics. Addressing this popular and topical area in economic discussion and debate an impressive array of contributors, including Meghnad Desai, Charles Goodhart and John Davis examine the theory, policy and history of economics in the USA, Europe and Japan. The subjects covered include: the history of economic thought money and banking monetary economics poverty modern economic history. This volume is essential reading for postdoctoral researchers and historians of economic thought across the globe.

Luigi Amoroso

Luigi Amoroso
Author: Mario Pomini
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2022-10-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3031103394

This book outlines the rich and complex path of Luigi Amoroso, the main exponent of the Paretian School in Italy and probably the most important Italian mathematical economist during the interwar period. The author presents, in a systematic form, the evolution of Amoros's thinking and his main achievements. Despite his relevance, many aspects of Amoroso's thought are little known or misunderstood. This volume delves further to explore the Paretian tradition in which Amoroso enlisted, the conservative anti-democratic ideology that prompted his adhesion to fascism, his contribution to defining the main features of economic theory as formal science, and his various contributions to specific fields such as microeconomic theory, equilibrium dynamics, business cycles and non-competitive markets. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in the history of economic thought.

Mathematical tools for Economics and Finance with Mathematica software

Mathematical tools for Economics and Finance with Mathematica software
Author: Giovanni Masala
Publisher: Universitas Studiorum
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2015-06-22
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 8899459037

Mathematica is a scientific software dedicated to symbolic and numerical calculus, developed by a team directed by Stephen Wolfram. The potential applications are extremely wide and may comprise, for example, pure and applied Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Finance and Engineering. The first version 1.0 was published on 1988 while the current version 10.0 was released on 2014. Mathematica also permits to develop sophisticated program code thanks to its own syntax and besides, it can be used as a highly accurate text Editor. This book is a complete and up-to-date guide to Mathematica Software.Contents: Introduction, Linear Algebra, Functions of a real variable, Functions of several variables, Implicit funcions theorem, Unconstrained optimization, Constrained optimization, Ordinary differential equations and systems, Dynamic optmization, Stochastic calculus, Financial Applications, etc.

From Galileo to Modern Economics

From Galileo to Modern Economics
Author: Gianfranco Tusset
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2018-09-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3319956124

Empirical laws are rare in economics. This book describes efforts to anchor economic knowledge to invariant empirical laws. It links 17th and 18th century Galilean monetary economists to econophysics, a field that emerged in the mid-1990s. This virtual journey from past to present is charted by episodes on aggregates and empirical primacy. It includes the virtually unknown story of 19th century scholars who, by searching for a stricter mathematical approach, paved the way to an ‘engineering’ view of economics. Then there are celebrities like Pareto and his first empirical law governing the distribution of wealth. Pareto and Amoroso sparked a debate on the skewed distribution that spanned decades, ranging from finance to market transformations, to econophysics, with its concepts and tools inherited from statistical physics. The last stage of the journey goes through econophysics and the recent gradual advances it has made, which show how its position vis-à-vis economics has been changing.

Market Structure and Equilibrium

Market Structure and Equilibrium
Author: Heinrich von Stackelberg
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 147
Release: 2010-11-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3642125867

In his book „Marktform und Gleichgewicht“, published initially in 1934, Heinrich von Stackelberg presented his groundbreaking leadership model of firm competition. In a work of great originality and richness, he described and analyzed a market situation in which the leader firm moves first and the follower firms then move sequentially. This game-theoretic model, now widely known as Stackelberg competition, has had tremendous impact on the theory of the firm and economic analysis in general, and has been applied to study decision-making in various fields of business. As the first translation of von Stackelberg’s book into English, this volume makes his classic work available in its original form to an English-speaking audience for the very first time.

Metron

Metron
Author: Corrado Gini
Publisher:
Total Pages: 320
Release: 1923
Genre: Statistics
ISBN:

Includes list of publications received.

Handbook on the History of Economic Analysis Volume I

Handbook on the History of Economic Analysis Volume I
Author: Gilbert Faccarello
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 812
Release: 2016-07-27
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1785366645

Volume I contains original biographical profiles of many of the most important and influential economists from the seventeenth century to the present day. These inform the reader about their lives, works and impact on the further development of the discipline. The emphasis is on their lasting contributions to our understanding of the complex system known as the economy. The entries also shed light on the means and ways in which the functioning of this system can be improved and its dysfunction reduced.