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Author | : Louis Haddad |
Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2002-04-26 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781782543213 |
Although this book is primarily about economics, non-economic considerations, including political and ethical, are brought into the analysis. The most important decisions in life include choices between economic and non-economic issues. Hence, one of the aims of this book is to provide a conceptual framework to cope with these choices.
Author | : United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Civil defense |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Tomas Sedlacek |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2011-07-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0199831904 |
Tomas Sedlacek has shaken the study of economics as few ever have. Named one of the "Young Guns" and one of the "five hot minds in economics" by the Yale Economic Review, he serves on the National Economic Council in Prague, where his provocative writing has achieved bestseller status. How has he done it? By arguing a simple, almost heretical proposition: economics is ultimately about good and evil. In The Economics of Good and Evil, Sedlacek radically rethinks his field, challenging our assumptions about the world. Economics is touted as a science, a value-free mathematical inquiry, he writes, but it's actually a cultural phenomenon, a product of our civilization. It began within philosophy--Adam Smith himself not only wrote The Wealth of Nations, but also The Theory of Moral Sentiments--and economics, as Sedlacek shows, is woven out of history, myth, religion, and ethics. "Even the most sophisticated mathematical model," Sedlacek writes, "is, de facto, a story, a parable, our effort to (rationally) grasp the world around us." Economics not only describes the world, but establishes normative standards, identifying ideal conditions. Science, he claims, is a system of beliefs to which we are committed. To grasp the beliefs underlying economics, he breaks out of the field's confines with a tour de force exploration of economic thinking, broadly defined, over the millennia. He ranges from the epic of Gilgamesh and the Old Testament to the emergence of Christianity, from Descartes and Adam Smith to the consumerism in Fight Club. Throughout, he asks searching meta-economic questions: What is the meaning and the point of economics? Can we do ethically all that we can do technically? Does it pay to be good? Placing the wisdom of philosophers and poets over strict mathematical models of human behavior, Sedlacek's groundbreaking work promises to change the way we calculate economic value.
Author | : Lanny Ebenstein |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2015-10-06 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1466891122 |
Chicagonomics explores the history and development of classical liberalism as taught and explored at the University of Chicago. Ebenstein's tenth book in the history of economic and political thought, it deals specifically in the area of classical liberalism, examining the ideas of Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman, and is the first comprehensive history of economics at the University of Chicago from the founding of the University in 1892 until the present. The reader will learn why Chicago had such influence, to what extent different schools of thought in economics existed at Chicago, the Chicago tradition, vision, and what Chicago economic perspectives have to say about current economic and social circumstances. Ebenstein enlightens the personal and intellectual relationships among leading figures in economics at the University of Chicago, including Jacob Viner, Frank Knight, Henry Simons, Milton Friedman, George Stigler, Aaron Director, and Friedrich Hayek. He recasts classical liberal thought from Adam Smith to the present.
Author | : Sean Harkin |
Publisher | : Harriman House |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2014-05-14 |
Genre | : Economic policy |
ISBN | : 9781441680358 |
In this work, Harkin applies the concept of feedback to economic theory and economic policy. The author supports the common-sense idea that a well-functioning economy requires a mixed economic system in which the role of the state is almost as great as that of the market.
Author | : Minouche Shafik |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2022-08-23 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 069120764X |
From one of the leading policy experts of our time, an urgent rethinking of how we can better support each other to thrive Whether we realize it or not, all of us participate in the social contract every day through mutual obligations among our family, community, place of work, and fellow citizens. Caring for others, paying taxes, and benefiting from public services define the social contract that supports and binds us together as a society. Today, however, our social contract has been broken by changing gender roles, technology, new models of work, aging, and the perils of climate change. Minouche Shafik takes us through stages of life we all experience—raising children, getting educated, falling ill, working, growing old—and shows how a reordering of our societies is possible. Drawing on evidence and examples from around the world, she shows how every country can provide citizens with the basics to have a decent life and be able to contribute to society. But we owe each other more than this. A more generous and inclusive society would also share more risks collectively and ask everyone to contribute for as long as they can so that everyone can fulfill their potential. What We Owe Each Other identifies the key elements of a better social contract that recognizes our interdependencies, supports and invests more in each other, and expects more of individuals in return. Powerful, hopeful, and thought-provoking, What We Owe Each Other provides practical solutions to current challenges and demonstrates how we can build a better society—together.
Author | : B. Joseph Pine |
Publisher | : Harvard Business Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780875848198 |
This text seeks to raise the curtain on competitive pricing strategies and asserts that businesses often miss their best opportunity for providing consumers with what they want - an experience. It presents a strategy for companies to script and stage the experiences provided by their products.
Author | : Adam Smith |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 429 |
Release | : 2010-10-12 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 085708108X |
THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOK ON MODERN ECONOMICS The Wealth of Nations is an economics book like no other. First published in 1776, Adam Smith's groundbreaking theories provide a recipe for national prosperity that has not been bettered since. It assumes no prior knowledge of its subject, and over 200 years on, still provides valuable lessons on the fundamentals of economics. This keepsake edition is a selected abridgement of all five books, and includes an Introduction by Tom Butler-Bowdon, drawing out lessons for the contemporary reader, a Foreword from Eamonn Butler, Director of the Adam Smith Institute, and a Preface from Dr. Razeen Sally of the London School of Economics.
Author | : OECD |
Publisher | : OECD Publishing |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 2021-05-20 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9264852395 |
This edition of the OECD Sovereign Borrowing Outlook reviews developments in response to the COVID-19 pandemic for government borrowing needs, funding conditions and funding strategies in the OECD area.
Author | : Douglass Cecil North |
Publisher | : Ics Press |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Economic development |
ISBN | : 9781558152113 |