The European Central Bank

the new european leviathan?

The politics of international trade in the Twenty-First Century

actors, issues and regional dynamics

Two minds

intuition and analysis in the history of economic thought

The Two Minds noted economist Roger Frantz explores in this landmark book are, first, the analytical mind and, second, the intuitive mind. In part one he presents the leading theories on intuition, discusses recent developments in cognitive science, and borrows from such non-economist intuitors as ...

Economic sociodynamics

In this ambitious book, the authors challenge mainstream economic theory by reconsidering the principle of individualism as its foundation. They refer to that version which fails to recognize the existence of the interests of society as such, and thus excludes the role of the state ...

Differential information economies

One of the main problems in current economic theory is to write contracts which are Pareto optimal, incentive compatible, and also implementable as a perfect Bayesian equilibrium of a dynamic, noncooperative game. The question arises whether it is possible to provide Walrasian type or cooperative ...

Ordinary choices

individuals, incommensurability, and democracy

New tools of economic dynamics

New Tools of Economic Dynamics gives an introduction and overview of recently developed methods and tools, most of them developed outside economics, to deal with the qualitative analysis of economic dynamics. It reports the results of a three-year research project by a European and Latin ...

The origins of Law and Economics

essays by the Founding Fathers

This unique collection of largely unpublished papers brings together the founding fathers of law and economics to provide their own views on the origins and intellectual history of the field. Law and economics emerged as a separate field of scholarship during the early 1960s, fueled ...

The political economy of policy reform

essays in honor of J. Michael Finger

Capital extranjero y política económica

las crisis financieras del sudeste asiático

Neo-liberal economic policy

critical essays

Over the past two decades there has been a prevailing shift in economic policy in many countries. This reflects the continuing rise of neo- liberalism # the doctrine that economic policy should #leave it to the market# and that governments should retreat from market intervention. This ...

Who's afraid of Adam Smith?

how the market got his soul!

In this spirited and timely book, Peter Dougherty shows how economists are drawing on Adam Smith's civic writings to illuminate how the market creates not only fiscal capital, but "social capital." Dougherty demonstrates how Smith's ideas are currently experiencing a renaissance. He then ...

Sindicalismo, coaliciones partidarias y reformas de mercado en América Latina

Economic Theory and cognitive science

microexplanation

In this study, Don Ross explores the relationship of economics to other branches of behavioral science, asking, in the course of his analysis, under what interpretation economics is a sound empirical science. The book explores the relationships between economic theory and the theoretical foundations of ...

Challenges for Central Banks in an enlarged EMU

The inflation-targeting debate

The economic sociology of capitalism

This book represents a major step forward in the use of economic sociology to illuminate the nature and workings of capitalism amid the far-reaching changes of the contemporary era of global capitalism. For the past twenty years economic sociologists have focused on mesa-level phenomena of ...

El léxico del discurso económico empresarial

identificación, selección y enseñanza en Español como Lengua Extranjera con fines específicos

Este trabajo tiene como objetivo principal la elaboración de una metodología que permita la selección objetiva y científica del vocabulario típico del discurso económico empresarial.Para este propósito se recurre a la terminología y a la lexicología así como a algunas herramientas de la léxico-estad ...

The economic effects of Constitutions

Freakonomics

a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything

In Freakonomics Steven Levitt asks a series of provocative and profound questions about contemporary living and helps us to see the familiar world through a completely original lens. He examines everything from education to traffic jams, from food to guns, from sports to getting elected ...