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Thorstein Veblen has made an immeasurable impact on the development
of economics. His legacy has been to challenge orthodox thinking
and inspire the institutionalist and evolutionary school of
thought. In this book, a distinguished group of contributors
analyzes the impact, a century later, of Veblen's 1898 challenge to
economics. The authors examine the contribution of Veblen and some
of his disciples to heterodox economics. They also reassess other
contemporaneous discussions and contributions by other authors -
Mitchell, Ayres, Commons, Keynes, Schumpeter, Tinbergen, Frisch -
and present an overview of the state of the art in evolutionary
economics.
This two volume set is a comprehensive collection of historical and
contemporary articles which highlight the theoretical foundations
and the methods and models of long wave analysis. After examining
the beginnings of long wave theory, the book includes discussions
of time series methods and non-linear modelling, with an
exploration of economic development in its historical context. It
investigates the process of evolution and mutation in industrial
capitalism over the last two hundred years. Contemporary reviews
and critiques of long wave theory are also included. It makes
available for the first time much important material that has
hitherto been inaccessible. The book will be of immense value to
all students and scholars interested in the history of economic
thought, time series analysis and evolutionary or institutionalist
analysis.
A fascinating and comprehensive history, this book explores the
most important transformation in twentieth century economics: the
creation of econometrics. Containing fresh archival material that
has not been published before and taking Ragnar Frisch as the
narrator, Francisco Louca discusses both the keys events - the
establishment of the Econometric Society, the Cowles Commission and
the journal Econometrica - and the major players - economists like
Wesley Mitchell, mathematicians like John von Neumann and
statisticians like Karl Pearson - in history that shaped the
development of econometrics. He discusses the evolution of their
thought, detailing the debates, the quarrels and the interrogations
that crystallized their work and even offers a conclusion of sorts,
suggesting that some of the more influential thinkers abandoned
econometrics or became critical of its development. International
in scope and appeal, The Years of High Econometrics is an excellent
accompaniment for students taking courses on probability,
econometric methods and the history of economic thought.
A fascinating and comprehensive history, this book explores the
most important transformation in twentieth century economics: the
creation of econometrics. Containing fresh archival material that
has not been published before and taking Ragnar Frisch as the
narrator, Francisco Louca discusses both the keys events - the
establishment of the Econometric Society, the Cowles Commission and
the journal Econometrica - and the major players - economists like
Wesley Mitchell, mathematicians like John von Neumann and
statisticians like Karl Pearson - in history that shaped the
development of econometrics. He discusses the evolution of their
thought, detailing the debates, the quarrels and the interrogations
that crystallized their work and even offers a conclusion of sorts,
suggesting that some of the more influential thinkers abandoned
econometrics or became critical of its development. International
in scope and appeal, The Years of High Econometrics is an excellent
accompaniment for students taking courses on probability,
econometric methods and the history of economic thought.
Turbulence in Economics presents the economy as an evolutionary
process, economics as a realistic science and reintroduces history
as fundamental to understanding economic processes. It examines
cycles and fluctuations in economic history from the point of view
of turbulence in the physical sciences, (specifically
hydrodynamics), and argues that an evolutionary approach is
required for a better understanding of historical economic
processes. Economic time is marked by a succession of long periods
of economic expansion and depression, separated by deep structural
changes. These periods represent distinct forms of organization of
social relations, science and technology, cultural trends and
political and social institutions. This is accepted by historians
but rejected in orthodox economics. In this book the author
challenges this and argues that the divorce between economics and
history limits the ability of economics to explain reality. Within
this inquiry into the crisis of orthodox economics the author
considers Keynes's, Mitchell's and Schumpeter's critiques of
neoclassical economics. The author then compares these to the
contributions of Frisch and Wicksell, and examines recent studies
of chaos, nonlinear and complex dynamics to explain the historical
development of modern economics. This book will be welcomed by
economic historians, historians of economic thought, institutional
and evolutionary economists and those interested in chaos,
complexity and modern methodology.
The 2007-08 financial crisis surprised many economists and the
public. But how did the crisis come about, why was it so deep, and
why has the clean-up been so slow and painful? Many accounts of the
crisis focus on renegade activity in marginal financial sectors.
Shadow Networks challenges this pervading view and sets out to
demonstrate that, far from a dissident branch, the shadow finance
that initiated the crisis is tightly networked with, and highly
profitable for, bank-based finance. The collapse was not an
accident, but baked into the system of finance from the start.
Shadow Networks traces the complex web of power that caused crisis
and gives vivid descriptions of the actors in the quarter century
leading up to 2007 to explain how the now decade-long crisis took
shape. Shadow Networks: Financial Disorder and the System that
Caused Crisis is a probing examination of the roles of the powerful
elite. It traces the networks and institutions that support a
finance-focused, market centered model of economy and society from
their ascendancy to their surprising resilience in the face of
manifest failures.
The Internet and mobile telephones have made everyone more aware than ever of the computer revolution and its effects on the economy and society. As Time Goes By puts this revolution in the perspective of previous waves of technical change: steam-powered mechanization, electrification, and motorization. It argues for a theory of reasoned economic history which assigns a central place to these successive technological revolutions.
The Internet and mobile telephones have made everyone more aware than ever of the computer revolution and its effects on the economy and society. 'As Time Goes By' puts this revolution in the perspective of previous waves of technical change: steam-powered mechanization, electrification, and motorization. It argues for a theory of reasoned economic history which assigns a central place to these successive technological revolutions.
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