Economic Logic Fourth Edition

Economic Logic Fourth Edition
Author: Mark Skousen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 617
Release: 2013-10-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1621572269

“Eureka! Skousen has done the impossible. Students love it! I will never use another textbook again.”—Harry Veryser, University of Detroit-Mercy They said it couldn’t be done. Austrian economics is so different, they said, that it couldn’t be integrated into standard “neo-classical” textbooks. Consequently, college students learn nothing about the great Austrian economists (Mises, Hayek, Schumpeter). Professor Mark Skousen’s Economic Logic aims to change that. Based on his popular course taught at Columbia University, Skousen starts his “micro” section with Carl Menger’s “theory of the good” and the profit-and-loss income statement to explain the dynamics of the market process, entrepreneurship, and the advantages of saving. Then he uses a powerful Hayekian four-stage model of the economy to introduce “macro,” including a new Austrian measure of spending at all stages of production (Gross Domestic Expenditures). Economic Logic also offers chapters on: The international gold standard, the defects of central banking, and the Mises/Hayek theory of the business cycle. A full critique of the Keynesian Aggregate Supply and Demand (AS-AD) model, and a revolutionary Austrian alternative. Entrepreneurship, the financial markets, environmental economics, monetary policy and inflation, federal spending and taxes, and government regulation. Leaders of all schools, including Austrian, Keynesians, Marxist, Chicago, and Public Choice.

Economic Logic

Economic Logic
Author: Mark Skousen
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001-04
Genre: Economics
ISBN: 9780895262165

Author Skousen takes a refreshing, intellectually independent approach to economics, beginning with sound economics from all free-market schools of thought and using it to analyze all competing theories.

Cognitive Economics

Cognitive Economics
Author: Paul Bourgine
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 479
Release: 2013-03-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3540247084

The social sciences study knowing subjects and their interactions. A "cog nitive turn", based on cognitive science, has the potential to enrich these sciences considerably. Cognitive economics belongs within this movement of the social sciences. It aims to take into account the cognitive processes of individuals in economic theory, both on the level of the agent and on the level of their dynamic interactions and the resulting collective phenomena. This is an ambitious research programme that aims to link two levels of com plexity: the level of cognitive phenomena as studied and tested by cognitive science, and the level of collective phenomena produced by the economic in teractions between agents. Such an objective requires cooperation, not only between economists and cognitive scientists but also with mathematicians, physicists and computer scientists, in order to renew, study and simulate models of dynamical systems involving economic agents and their cognitive mechanisms. The hard core of classical economics is the General Equilibrium Theory, based on the optimising rationality of the agent and on static concepts of equilibrium, following a point of view systemised in the framework of Game Theory. The agent is considered "rational" if everything takes place as if he was maximising a function representing his preferences, his utility function.

The Structure of Production

The Structure of Production
Author: Mark Skousen
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 462
Release: 2017-12-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1479869953

In 2014, the U. S. government adopted a new quarterly statistic called gross output (GO), the most significance advance in national income accounting since gross domestic product (GDP) was developed in the 1940s. The announcement came as a triumph for Mark Skousen, who advocated GO nearly 25 years ago as an essential macroeconomic tool and a better way to measure the economy and the business cycle. Now it has become an official statistic issued quarterly by the Bureau of Economic Analysis at the U. S. Department of Commerce. In this new revised edition of Structure of Production, Skousen shows why GO is a more accurate and comprehensive measure of the economy because it includes business-to-business transactions that move the supply chain along to final use. (GDP measures the value of finished goods and services only, and omits B-to-B activity.) GO is an attempt to measure spending at all stages of production. Using GO, Skousen demonstrates that the supply-side of the business spending is far more important than consumer spending, is more consistent with economic growth theory, and a better measure of the business cycle.

Logic and Structure

Logic and Structure
Author: Dirk van Dalen
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2013-11-11
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3662023822

New corrected printing of a well-established text on logic at the introductory level.

Logic of Choice and Economic Theory

Logic of Choice and Economic Theory
Author: S. N. Afriat
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 606
Release: 1987-11-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780198284611

This is a definitive statement of Professor Afriat's achievements in the field of choice and value in economics, an area in which he has contributed more than most. As the topics covered, which include optimal programming, social and individual choice, production, and the market, are both central and fundamental, the book forms a source on basic and current topics in economic theory and mathematical economics for any advanced student of the subject. The work is in six parts: the first four discuss generalities about choice and representative economic topics; the final two are more concerned with straight forwardly mathematical subjects that have an application in economics. A characteristic of the book is its conceptual clarifications for choice, value, and price theory generally, and, for special topics, the novelties and simplifications that are uncovered in already well-trodden ground. -

Digital Logic Design

Digital Logic Design
Author: Brian Holdsworth
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 535
Release: 2002-11-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0080477305

New, updated and expanded topics in the fourth edition include: EBCDIC, Grey code, practical applications of flip-flops, linear and shaft encoders, memory elements and FPGAs. The section on fault-finding has been expanded. A new chapter is dedicated to the interface between digital components and analog voltages. - A highly accessible, comprehensive and fully up to date digital systems text - A well known and respected text now revamped for current courses - Part of the Newnes suite of texts for HND/1st year modules

Deductive Logic

Deductive Logic
Author: Warren Goldfarb
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2003-09-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1603845852

This text provides a straightforward, lively but rigorous, introduction to truth-functional and predicate logic, complete with lucid examples and incisive exercises, for which Warren Goldfarb is renowned.