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Discrete Dynamical Systems (Hardcover, 2007): Oded Galor Discrete Dynamical Systems (Hardcover, 2007)
Oded Galor
R2,873 Discovery Miles 28 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book provides an introduction to discrete dynamical systems - a framework of analysis that is commonly used in the ?elds of biology, demography, ecology, economics, engineering, ?nance, and physics. The book characterizes the fundamental factors that govern the quantitative and qualitative trajectories of a variety of deterministic, discrete dynamical systems, providing solution methods for systems that can be solved analytically and methods of qualitative analysis for those systems that do not permit or necessitate an explicit solution. The analysis focuses initially on the characterization of the factors that govern the evolution of state variables in the elementary context of one-dimensional, ?rst-order, linear, autonomous systems. The f- damental insights about the forces that a?ect the evolution of these - ementary systems are subsequently generalized, and the determinants of the trajectories of multi-dimensional, nonlinear, higher-order, non- 1 autonomous dynamical systems are established. Chapter 1 focuses on the analysis of the evolution of state variables in one-dimensional, ?rst-order, autonomous systems. It introduces a method of solution for these systems, and it characterizes the traj- tory of a state variable, in relation to a steady-state equilibrium of the system, examining the local and global (asymptotic) stability of this steady-state equilibrium. The ?rst part of the chapter characterizes the factors that determine the existence, uniqueness and stability of a steady-state equilibrium in the elementary context of one-dimensional, ?rst-order, linear autonomous systems.

Recent Developments in the Economics of Advertising (Hardcover): Simon P. Anderson Recent Developments in the Economics of Advertising (Hardcover)
Simon P. Anderson
R9,494 Discovery Miles 94 940 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The research review discusses important papers in the Economics of Advertising since the Millennium. It covers embellishments of established theories, newer theories, and empirical testing of both. Topics include informative, persuasive, and comparative advertising, content analysis, targeting, information congestion, signalling, and information disclosure. Scholars of marketing and economics will find here both a back-drop and recent advances.

Econ Writ James Pennington Lse (Paperback): R.S. Sayers Econ Writ James Pennington Lse (Paperback)
R.S. Sayers
R1,247 Discovery Miles 12 470 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Exploring the Strategy Space of Negotiating Agents - A Framework for Bidding, Learning and Accepting in Automated Negotiation... Exploring the Strategy Space of Negotiating Agents - A Framework for Bidding, Learning and Accepting in Automated Negotiation (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Tim Baarslag
R4,183 R3,614 Discovery Miles 36 140 Save R569 (14%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book reports on an outstanding thesis that has significantly advanced the state-of-the-art in the area of automated negotiation. It gives new practical and theoretical insights into the design and evaluation of automated negotiators. It describes an innovative negotiating agent framework that enables systematic exploration of the space of possible negotiation strategies by recombining different agent components. Using this framework, new and effective ways are formulated for an agent to learn, bid, and accept during a negotiation. The findings have been evaluated in four annual instantiations of the International Automated Negotiating Agents Competition (ANAC), the results of which are also outlined here. The book also describes several methodologies for evaluating and comparing negotiation strategies and components, with a special emphasis on performance and accuracy measures.

Bounded Rationality and Industrial Organization (Hardcover, New): Ran Spiegler Bounded Rationality and Industrial Organization (Hardcover, New)
Ran Spiegler
R2,243 Discovery Miles 22 430 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Conventional economic theory assumes that consumers are fully rational, that they have well-defined preferences and easily understand the market environment. Yet, in fact, consumers may have inconsistent, context-dependent preferences or simply not enough brain-power to evaluate and compare complicated products. Thus the standard model of consumer behavior-which depends on an ideal market in which consumers are boundlessly rational-is called into question. While behavioral economists have for some time confirmed and characterized these inconsistencies, the logical next step is to examine the implications they have in markets.
Grounded in key observations in consumer psychology, Bounded Rationality and Industrial Organization develops non-standard models of "boundedly rational" consumer behavior and embeds them into familiar models of markets. It then rigorously analyses each model in the tradition of microeconomic theory, leading to a richer, more realistic picture of consumer behavior. Ran Spiegler analyses phenomena such as exploitative price plans in the credit market, complexity of financial products and other obfuscation practices, consumer antagonism to unexpected price increases, and the role of default options in consumer decision making. Spiegler unifies the relevant literature into three main strands: limited ability to anticipate and control future choices, limited ability to understand complex market environments, and sensitivity to reference points.
Although the challenge of enriching the psychology of decision makers in economic models has been at the frontier of theoretical research in the last decade, there has been no graduate-level, theory-oriented textbook to cover developments in the last 10-15 years. Thus, Bounded Rationality andIndustrial Organization offers a welcome and crucial new understanding of market behavior-it challenges conventional wisdom in ways that are interesting and economically significant, and which in the end effect the well-being of all market participants.

Fact and Theory in Economics - The Testament of an Institutionalist: Collected Papers (Hardcover, New ed of 1958 ed): Morris... Fact and Theory in Economics - The Testament of an Institutionalist: Collected Papers (Hardcover, New ed of 1958 ed)
Morris Albert Copeland; Volume editing by Chandler Morse
R2,805 Discovery Miles 28 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Luigi Einaudi - Selected Economic Essays (Hardcover, 2006 ed.): L Einaudi, R. Faucci, R. Marchionatti Luigi Einaudi - Selected Economic Essays (Hardcover, 2006 ed.)
L Einaudi, R. Faucci, R. Marchionatti
R2,891 Discovery Miles 28 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The writings of Luigi Einaudi (1874-1961) testify to the author's outstanding contribution to economics during his long career as economist, historian and policy-maker. Of special note is his work on the taxation of consumption rather than income. Throughout his career Einaudi argued the economic and political case for European unity, anticipating the need for a common market and monetary union. His writings on money and on political and economic liberalism are enlivened by a down-to-earth conception of the market and grounded in profound historical and institutional knowledge. This book makes an important selection of his works available in English for the first time.

Internet, Economic Growth and Globalization - Perspectives on the New Economy in Europe, Japan and the USA (Hardcover): Claude... Internet, Economic Growth and Globalization - Perspectives on the New Economy in Europe, Japan and the USA (Hardcover)
Claude E. Barfield, Gunter S Heiduk, Paul J.J. Welfens
R3,109 Discovery Miles 31 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

 The dynamics of the digital economy in the US, Europe and Japan are rather different. Some EU countries come close to the USA as the leading OECD country in the new economy, but Japan faces particular problems in catching-up digitally. Information and communication technology will affect productivity growth, production, the financial system and trade. Setting adequate rules for the digital economy - at the national and international level - is a key challenge for industrialized countries. Moreover, cultural and organizational challenges will also have to be met.

The Economics of Addictive Behaviours Volume IV - The Private and Social Costs of Overeating and their Remedies (Hardcover, 1st... The Economics of Addictive Behaviours Volume IV - The Private and Social Costs of Overeating and their Remedies (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
John Joshua
R1,844 Discovery Miles 18 440 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This title offers an in-depth analysis of the psychological causes and consequences of, and proposed interventions for over-eating. The author examines the history of obesity and its distribution by social class and geography, the environmental effects of overconsumption and economic remedies such as the introduction of a sugar tax to reduce obesity. Joshua also considers the politics of corporate social responsibility of food and beverage corporations and how this could prevent poor health decisions. This is the final title in a four volume series 'The Economics of Addictive Behaviours', consisting of three additional volumes on smoking, alcohol abuse and illicit drug abuse.

Cultural Factors in Economic Growth (Hardcover, 2000 ed.): Mark Casson, Andrew Godley Cultural Factors in Economic Growth (Hardcover, 2000 ed.)
Mark Casson, Andrew Godley
R4,368 Discovery Miles 43 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume is the product of the "Sixth Annual SEEP-Conference on Economic Ethics and Philosophy" on the theme of 'Cultural Factors in Economic Growth' held at Marienrode Monastry, Hildesheim, in April 1998. Our thanks go to our colleagues (including Avner Offner, whose paper could not be included here), the staff at the monastry, and Professor Peter Koslowski of the Forschungsinstitut fUr Philo sophie Hannover, and editor of this series, for contributing to a very enjoyable conference and, we hope, an interesting collection of essays. Mark Casson and Andrew Godley University of Reading, March 2000 Contents Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v Chapter 1 Cultural Factors in Economic Growth MARK CASSON AND ANDREW GODLEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter 2 Trust as a Governance Device BART NOOTEBOOM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Chapter 3 A Measure of Culture: Trust and Defection in Southern Italy FRANCESCO L. GALASSI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Chapter 4 Entrepreneurial Minorities: A Typology WILLIAM D. RUBINSTEIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . III Chapter 5 Cultural Determinants of Jewish Immigrant Entrepreneurship in the UK and USA and British and American Culture ANDREW GODLEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 CONTENTS Chapter 6 Jurisprudence, Expected Value, and the Culture ofInnovation FRED V. CARSTENSEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 Chapter 7 Constitutions, Liberties, and Growth in Pre-Modem Europe STEPHAN R. EpSTEIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 Chapter 8 Culture and the Myth of Economic Determinism in Global History and World Politics KEN DARK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182 Chapter 9 The Case for a Shared World Language ERIC L. JONES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 0 List of Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237 Index of Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Foucault's Archaeology of Political Economy (Hardcover): Iara Vigo De Lima Foucault's Archaeology of Political Economy (Hardcover)
Iara Vigo De Lima
R2,881 Discovery Miles 28 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book provides a critical reading of Foucault's writings on the archaeology of political economy, analyzing some of Foucault's contributions to the methodology of economics, historiography of economic thought and studies on Adam Smith's context and writings. It reconstructs Foucault's archaeology, relating it to current debates in economics.

Friedrich Hayek - A Biography (Hardcover, New): Lanny Ebenstein Friedrich Hayek - A Biography (Hardcover, New)
Lanny Ebenstein
R872 Discovery Miles 8 720 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book tells the story of one of the most important public figures of the twentieth century. It is the first full biography of Friedrich Hayek, the Austrian economist who became, over the course of a remarkable career, the great philosopher of liberty in our time. In this richly detailed portrait, Alan Ebenstein chronicles the life, works, and legacy of a visionary thinker, from Hayek's early years as the scholarly son of a physician in fin-de-siecle Vienna on an increasingly wider world as an economist and political philosopher in Londom, New York, and Chicago. Ebenstein gives a balanced, integrated account of Hayek's extordinary diverse body of work, from his fist encounter with the free market ideas of mentor Ludwig Von Mises to his magisterial writings in later life on the legal, political, ethical, and economic requirements of a free society. Awarded the Nobel Prize in 1974, Hayek's vision of a renewed classical liberalism-of free markets and free ideas in free societies-has taken hold in much of the world. Alan Ebanstein's clearly written account is an essential starting point for anyone seeking to understand why Hayek's ideas have become the guiding force of our time. His illuminating portrait of Hayek the man brings to new life the spirit of a great scholar and tenacious advocate who has become, in Peter Drucker's words, "our time's preeminent social philosopher."

Education, Equity, Economy: Crafting a New Intersection (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): George W. Noblit, William T. Pink Education, Equity, Economy: Crafting a New Intersection (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
George W. Noblit, William T. Pink
R3,559 Discovery Miles 35 590 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume will introduce the readers to an alternative nexus of education, equity and economy, pointing to economies and educations that promote a less stratified and exploitive world, and as the chapter authors demonstrate, this view has a wide range of applications, from technology, mathematics, to environmental catastrophes and indigenous cultures. This first volume in the new book series not only introduces the series itself, but also several authors whose chapters that appear here presage the in-depth analysis that will be offered by their volumes in the series. Education is invoked repeatedly in the 'class warfare' that pits the population against the elites as the investment that makes the difference, in terms of both policy and individual commitment, in the economy. The economy in this scenario is competitive, accumulative, exploitive and stratifying, implying education should mirror this and prepare people to fit this economy. However, education has other historic goals of developing common cultures, national identities, and civic engagement that belie this form of economic determinism. This volume and the series will explore this new nexus of economy and education with equity.

Mathematical Methods in Economics and Social Choice (Hardcover, 2003 ed.): Norman Schofield Mathematical Methods in Economics and Social Choice (Hardcover, 2003 ed.)
Norman Schofield
R1,558 Discovery Miles 15 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In recent years, the usual optimisation techniques, which have proved so useful in microeconomic theory, have been extended to incorporate more powerful topological and differential methods, and these methods have led to new results on the qualitative behaviour of general economic and political systems. These developments have necessarily resulted in an increase in the degree of formalism in the publications in the academic journals. This formalism can often deter graduate students. The progression of ideas presented in this book will familiarize the student with the geometric concepts underlying these topological methods, and, as a result, make mathematical economics, general equilibrium theory, and social choice theory more accessible.

Neoliberal Ebola - Modeling Disease Emergence from Finance to Forest and Farm (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Robert G. Wallace,... Neoliberal Ebola - Modeling Disease Emergence from Finance to Forest and Farm (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Robert G. Wallace, Rodrick Wallace
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume compiles five papers modeling the effects of neoliberal economics on the emergence of Ebola and its aftermath. Neoliberalism is currently the world's primary economic philosophy. It centers international relations around globalizing laissez-faire economics for multinational companies, promoting free trade, deregulating economic markets, and shifting state expenditures in favor of private property. The multidisciplinary teams represented here place both Ebola Makona, the Zaire Ebola virus variant that has infected 28,000 in West Africa, and Ebola Reston, which is currently emerging in industrial hog farms in the Philippines and China, within a multi-plank modeling framework. Using a stochastic extinction model that one group spatializes, environmental stochasticity across the ecologies in which Ebola evolves is treated as an ecosystemic prophylaxis. An agroecological logic gate is developed for epidemic control. A Black-Scholes model explicitly links economic margins across agricultural systems to success in biocontrol. This new control theory is further developed around the data-rate and rate-distortion theorems, a turbulence model, and cognitive symmetry breaking. Lastly, a model of pandemic penetrance is used to explore the domino effects of serious outbreaks amplifying through the cascades of disasters that can follow deadly pandemics. All the models presented are contextualized by socioeonomic geographies specific to outbreak locales.Together the models suggest shifts in regional agroeconomics under the neoliberal doctrine, driving deforestation and monoculture production, destroying the ecosystemic "friction" with which local forests typically disrupt Ebola transmission. The resulting collapse in such an ecological function accelerates pathogen spillover and propagation across the remaining host populations. The failure on the part of current control efforts to assimilate such a structural context may render even an efficacious vaccine dysfunctional. The authors propose an alternate science of disease and an adjunct program of interventions useful to researchers and public health officials alike.

Innovation Networks - New Approaches in Modelling and Analyzing (Hardcover): Andreas Pyka, Andrea Scharnhorst Innovation Networks - New Approaches in Modelling and Analyzing (Hardcover)
Andreas Pyka, Andrea Scharnhorst
R2,917 Discovery Miles 29 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

social network analysis has been an established eld since the 1950s; in computer and information sciences, in biology, and of course in mathematics (graph theory) networks are central representations of objects and methods (De Nooy, forthc- ing). More detailed bibliometric studies have examined the individual, cognitive, and institutional composition of complex network theory (Morris and Yen 2004), and social network theory (Otte and Rousseau 2002). Among the more impor- .. tant pieces of literature are Borner et al. (2007), Bornholdt and Schuster (2003), Buchanan (2002), Dorogovtsev and Mendes (2003), Otte and Rousseau (2002), Newman (2003), and Watts (1999, 2004). Of these, Borner .. et al. (2007) stand out because they have most recently re-examined network science, considering it as a possible innovation in information science. All the reviews mentioned include efforts to build bridges between different scienti c disciplines and specialties. In this book we draw particular attention to the link between evolutionary economics and statistical physics. Despite this impressive development, claims that an entirely new science has been created (Barabasi ' 2002) have nevertheless been the subject of criticism. - depth analyses of a subset of "complex networks" contributions (1991-2003) have shown that the notion of "complex networks" was already prevalent in a number of different elds before it became practically a "brand name" or the popular label for a new specialty area in physics, or a new cross-disciplinary paradigm.

Religious Resistance to Neoliberalism - Womanist and Black Feminist Perspectives (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015): Keri Day Religious Resistance to Neoliberalism - Womanist and Black Feminist Perspectives (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
Keri Day
R4,500 Discovery Miles 45 000 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Religious Resistance to Neoliberalism offers compelling and intersectional religious critiques of neoliberalism. Neoliberalism is the normative rationality of contemporary global capitalism that orders people to live by the generalized principle of competition in all social spheres of life. Keri Day asserts that neoliberalism and its moral orientations consequently breed radical distrust, lovelessness, disconnection, and alienation within society. She argues that engaging black feminist and womanist religious perspectives with Jewish and Christian discourses offers more robust critiques of a neoliberal economy. Employing womanist and black feminist religious perspectives, this book provides six theoretical, theologically constructive arguments to challenge the moral fragmentation associated with global markets. It strives to envision a pragmatic politics of hope.

Ideology and the Evolution of Vital Institutions - Guilds, The Gold Standard, and Modern International Cooperation (Hardcover,... Ideology and the Evolution of Vital Institutions - Guilds, The Gold Standard, and Modern International Cooperation (Hardcover, 2nd ed. 2001)
Earl A. Thompson, Charles R. Hickson
R4,597 Discovery Miles 45 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this book, Thompson and Hickson strongly challenge the standard interpretation of the basis of growth and viability of dominant wealthy nations. Briefly, efforts of the economically wealthy and the government leaders to increase their wealth and protect it from aggressors, internal and external, are cast in a new evolutionary light. The challenge is to the idea that societies leading intellectual formulators of political and social policy have been helpful. Their alternative, and persuasive, interpretation is that the rise and survival of wealthier nations has been achieved because of an effective democracy'. The authors explain why an effective democratic state must avoid narrow, short-sighted', rational appearing concessions to a sequence of aggressors. In short, the Thompson-Hickson interpretation of the rise of wealthy dominant nations does not rely on advice of superior intellectual advisors, but instead rests on the pragmatic, almost ad hoc, actions of democratic legislators.

The Market - Practice and Policy (Hardcover): Frank Hahn The Market - Practice and Policy (Hardcover)
Frank Hahn; Volume editing by David Reisman
R2,854 Discovery Miles 28 540 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The virtues and failings of market economies are at present widely debated and the outcome of the debate is of practical importance. This book contains essays that address these issues of economic policy ranging from privatization of industry and financial markets to education and the proposal for an internal market in the health service. Apart from two general theoretical pieces, particular markets, and proposals for creating such markets, are studied.

Paying the Social Debt - What White America Owes Black America (Hardcover, New): Richard F. America Paying the Social Debt - What White America Owes Black America (Hardcover, New)
Richard F. America
R2,753 Discovery Miles 27 530 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Richard America here redefines the complex problems of racial economic injustice, poverty, inequality, and lagging competitiveness and productivity in the United States. In a sure-to-be-controversial analysis, the author argues that there is a true debt owed by White America to Black America, that this debt is significant, and that it has now come due. He estimates the size of Whites' debt to Blacks, shows how that debt came to be, and suggests creative ways of paying it back. This book argues persuasively that the social and racial problems in the United States cannot be solved until we acknowledge that the "haves" truly and literally owe money to the "have nots."

Handbook of Economic Sociology for the 21st Century - New Theoretical Approaches, Empirical Studies and Developments... Handbook of Economic Sociology for the 21st Century - New Theoretical Approaches, Empirical Studies and Developments (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Andrea Maurer
R6,382 Discovery Miles 63 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This handbook provides an overview on major developments that occurred in the field of economic sociology after its rebirth since the 1980s in the US. It offers new insights on the uniqueness of European economic sociology compared to US economic sociology which emerged at the end of the 20th century. The handbook presents economic sociology as a developing field which started with certain foundations as new economic sociology, widening the perspective by introducing social factors thereby focusing more on general belief systems, social forms of coordination and the relationships between society and the economy. It offers an outstanding portrait of the research field helping to identify major foundations and trajectories as well as new research perspectives for a globalized economic sociology. This makes the handbook appeal to specialized researchers of the field, researchers from other disciplines interested in economic phenomena, as well as graduate and postgraduate students.

Accounting for the Global Economy - Measuring World Trade and Investment Linkages (Hardcover): Joke Luttik Accounting for the Global Economy - Measuring World Trade and Investment Linkages (Hardcover)
Joke Luttik
R4,350 Discovery Miles 43 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume describes the construction method for a global accounting framework, referred to as the world accounting matrix (WAM). The WAM allows for the consistent presentation of international trade and finance figures in relation to domestic saving and investment. The book aims to show how a WAM can be used for the analysis of trade and finance in a global context. It also seeks to show how WAM can contribute to the solution of the large statistical problems in national and global macroeconomic data.

Trade, Networks and Hierarchies - Modeling Regional and Interregional Economies (Hardcover, 2002 ed.): Geoffrey J.D. Hewings,... Trade, Networks and Hierarchies - Modeling Regional and Interregional Economies (Hardcover, 2002 ed.)
Geoffrey J.D. Hewings, Michael Sonis, David Boyce
R4,629 Discovery Miles 46 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The book provides an overview of some of the recent techniques that have been applied to an understanding of the structure of regional and interregional exchange within national economies. The issues range from an evaluation of NAFTA, comparisons of regional economies, structral change over time and issues related to measurement and interpretation. Many of the contributions address the problems using network structures.

Industry, Space and Competition - The Contribution of Economists of the Past (Hardcover): Michel Bellet, Corine L'Harmet Industry, Space and Competition - The Contribution of Economists of the Past (Hardcover)
Michel Bellet, Corine L'Harmet
R3,636 Discovery Miles 36 360 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Industry, Space and Competition rediscovers the contributions of the past on industrial organization and spatial economics and analyses these within the context of current movements towards globalization, regionalization and localization.It re-examines the work of von Thunen, Marshall, Weber and Perroux as well as re-assessing less well-known authors including Quesnay, George and Hearn whose contributions have previously been largely disregarded. The book analyses their contributions to spatial economics, industrial organization and economic geography within an historical context. The authors then go on to discuss related issues which are not strictly from the discipline of economics. Finally the authors propose that there should be more interaction with other disciplines including history and geography in order to gain a greater understanding of the subject. This book will be welcomed by historians of economic thought, regional economists, industrial economists, especially those interested in industrial organisation and competition, and scholars of international economics and economic geography.

Mute Compulsion - A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital (Paperback): Soren Mau Mute Compulsion - A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital (Paperback)
Soren Mau
R734 R650 Discovery Miles 6 500 Save R84 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Despite insoluble contradictions, intense volatility and fierce resistance, the crisis-ridden capitalism of the 21st century lingers on. To understand capital's paradoxical expansion and entrenchment amidst crisis and unrest, Mute Compulsionoffers a novel theory of the historically unique forms of abstract and impersonal power set in motion by the subjection of social life to the profit imperative. Building on a critical reconstruction of Karl Marx's unfinished critique of political economy and a wide range of contemporary Marxist theory, philosopher Soren Mau sets out to explain how the logic of capital tightens its stranglehold on the life of society by constantly remoulding the material conditions of social reproduction. In the course of doing so, Mau intervenes in classical and contemporary debates about the value form, crisis theory, biopolitics, social reproduction, humanism, logistics, agriculture, metabolism, the body, competition, technology and relative surplus populations.

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