Economics and its enemies

two centuries of anti-economics

Anti-economics is described as the opposition to the main stream of economic thought that has existed from the Eighteenth-century to the present day. This book tells the story of anti-economics in relations to Smith, Ricardo, Mill, Walras, Keynes and Hicks as well as current economic ...

The past, present and future of the European Union

Economics of health care financing

the visible hand

The interaction of monetary policy and wage bargaining in the European Monetary Union

lessons from the endogenous money approach

Sebastian Dullien gives a novel explanation for unemployment and inflation in the Euro-Zone. He argues that unemployment stems from a lack of cooperation between unions and monetary authorities: In an economy with endogenous money as EMU, wage setters are responsible for price stability while the ...

Advances in understanding strategic behaviour

Game Theory, experiments and bounded rationality: essays in honour of Werner Güth

This volume contains sixteen original articles documenting recent progress in understanding strategic behaviour. In their variety they reflect an entire spectrum of coexisting approaches: from orthodox game theory via behavioral game theory, bounded rationality and economic psychology to experimental economics. There are plenty of new ...

The political economy of exchange rate policy-making

from the gold standard to the Euro

Steven Kettell analyzes the development of exchange rate policymaking from a Marxist perspective. He examines and provides a new means of understanding three key policymaking episodes in Britain - the return to the gold standard in 1925, membership of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism from 1990-1992 ...

The price of the Euro

This volume presents a critical examination of the EMU from different perspectives. It includes essays on the political economy of currency unions, on the Growth and Stability pact, the European Central Bank, an evaluation of the first four years of the EMU, and the costs ...

Technology and human capital in historical perspective

One theme of this volume is whether the complementarity between technology and human capital is a recent phenomenon, or whether it can be traced through history. Different approaches to human capital as well as technology are applied, and besides historical surveys are total factor productivity ...

Minimum wages and employment

static and dinamic non-market-clearing equilibrium models

Christian Ragacs develops new contributions to the theory of minimum wages, while taking rationing and spill-over effects on markets other than the labour market into account. Following an introduction into the theory of minimum wages and a discussion of methodological problems, four new theoretical models ...

Competition and growth

innovations and selection in industry evolution

Jati K. Sengupta examines the market dynamics of the evolution of industry and the impact of new technology with R&D and knowledge capital. The book builds the theory of innovations in the contexts of the high-tech industries of today such as computing and telecommunications ...

The European population, 1945-2000

The European Population since 1945 is the second volume of two on demographics. This is a comparative and historical data handbook and accompanying CD-ROM presenting series data on demographic developments, population and household structures for the countries of Western and Central Europe. All major fields ...

The idea of the West

culture, politics and history

The Middle East and Palestine

global politics and regional conflict

Taking issue with the convenient views that the Middle East is an irrational and exceptional region of world politics, and that the long and bloody history of the Palestine conflict is proof, the authors combine theoretical reflection and empirical investigation, marrying International Relations theory and ...

A history of Japan

from Stone Age to Superpower

Jewish Resistance during The Holocaust

moral uses of violence and will

Stalin's terror

high politics and mass repression in the Soviet Union

Early Modern military history

1450-1815

Beyond Calvin

the intellectual, political and cultural world of Europe's Reformed Churches, c.1540-1620

T'ang China

the rise of the East in world history

Terrorism

the philosophical issues