The Ordinary Business of Life

The Ordinary Business of Life
Author: Roger Backhouse
Publisher:
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780691096261

Discusses the history of economics and its influences from religion, theology, philosophy, mathematics, and science.

The Ordinary Business of Life

The Ordinary Business of Life
Author: Roger E. Backhouse
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2024-01-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0691252017

The classic history of economic thought through the ages—now fully updated and expanded Hesiod defined the basic economic problem as one of scarce resources, a view still held by economists today. Diocletian tried to save the Roman Empire with wage and price fixes—a strategy that has not gone entirely out of style. Roger Backhouse takes readers from the ancient world to the frontiers of game theory, mechanism design, and engagements with climate science, presenting an essential history of a discipline that economist Alfred Marshall called “the study of mankind in the ordinary business of life.” Backhouse introduces the many fascinating figures who have thought about money and markets down through the centuries—from philosophers and theologians to politicians and poets—and shows how today’s economic ideas have their origins in antiquity. This updated edition of The Ordinary Business of Life includes a new chapter on contemporary economics and the rest of the book has been thoroughly revised.

The Economics of Business Life

The Economics of Business Life
Author: Henry Penson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2015-11-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107586607

Originally published in 1933, this book presents a guide to the interrelationship between business and economics by the renowned economist and historian Sir Henry Penson (1864-1955). The text was written with a twofold purpose in mind: 'to present a kind of economic background for a picture of business life, and to fill in the details of the picture by describing something of the machinery by which that business life is carried on'. A practical perspective is maintained throughout, although historical information on various business institutions is also provided. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the relationship between economics and business.

Modern Economics – An Analytical Study, 20th Edition

Modern Economics – An Analytical Study, 20th Edition
Author: Ahuja H.L.
Publisher: S. Chand Publishing
Total Pages: 1775
Release: 2016
Genre:
ISBN: 9352531469

In its 20th edition, this trusted definitive text is a comprehensive treatise on modern economics. It discusses in detail microeconomics, macroeconomics, monetary theory and policy, international economics, public finance and fiscal policy and above all economics of growth and development. The book has been exhaustively revised to provide students an in-depth understanding of the fundamental concepts and is streamlined to focus on current topics and developments in the field.

Predictably Rational?

Predictably Rational?
Author: Richard B. McKenzie
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2009-10-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3642015867

Mainstream economists everywhere exhibit an "irrational passion for dispassionate rationality." Behavioral economists, and long-time critic of mainstream economics suggests that people in mainstrean economic models "can think like Albert Einstein, store as much memory as IBM’s Big Blue, and exercise the will power of Mahatma Gandhi," suggesting that such a view of real world modern homo sapiens is simply wrongheaded. Indeed, Thaler and other behavioral economists and psychology have documented a variety of ways in which real-world people fall far short of mainstream economists' idealized economic actor, perfectly rational homo economicus. Behavioral economist Daniel Ariely has concluded that real-world people not only exhibit an array of decision-making frailties and biases, they are "predictably irrational," a position now shared by so many behavioral economists, psychologists, sociologists, and evolutionary biologists that a defense of the core rationality premise of modedrn economics is demanded.

The History of Wells and Kennebunk

The History of Wells and Kennebunk
Author: Edward E. Bourne
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 834
Release: 2023-11-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3385220378

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

Economics Confronts the Economy

Economics Confronts the Economy
Author: Philip A. Klein
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2006-05-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781781958766

Takes a look at contemporary economic analysis, and presents a view of the state of economics.

History of Wells and Kennebunk

History of Wells and Kennebunk
Author: Edward E. Bourne
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 826
Release: 2023-11-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3385230071

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.