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Economics & Feminism

by Randy Pearl Albelda

1997

Albelda's study is the first to critically examine the marginal impact of feminism on economics. She explores the history of feminism and economics with surprising resultsnamely that women were better represented in the profession in th…

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Economics and the Environment

by Curt L. Anderson

1996

Teachers and students learn about the complementary relationship between their own economic wellbeing and the natural resources of the environment. The lessons can be used in high school economics, environmental studies, social issues and n…

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Scarcity and Growth

by Harold J. Barnett, Chandler Morse

2013

In this classic study, the authors assess the importance of technological change and resource substitution in support of their conclusion that resource scarcity did not increase in the Unites States during the period 1870 to 1957. Originall…

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Economics and the Social Sciences

by Stavros Ioannides, Klaus Nielsen

2007

Based on the premise that mainstream economics has become excessively specialized and formalized, entering a state of de facto withdrawal from the study of the economy in favour of exercises in applied mathematics. This book illustrates the…

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Puzzles and Paradoxes in Economics

by Mark Skousen, Kenna C. Taylor

1998

Economics is full of puzzles and paradoxes that often frustrate and challenge everyone, including economists. This engaging book includes fifty puzzles and focuses on three types of paradox. First, everyday observations that appear to belie…

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Bounded Rationality and Public Policy

by Alistair Munro

2009

This book is about bounded rationality and public policy. It is written from the p- spective of someone trained in public economics who has encountered the enormous literature on experiments in decision-making and wonders what implications …

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Cognitive Economics

by Bernard Walliser

2007

Written in an informal way, this book is addressed to philosophers or cognitive scientists curious of how economics deals with cognition and to graduate students in economics eager to discover how economics evolves. It aims at extending the…

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The Structure of Post-Keynesian Economics

by G. C. Harcourt

2006

This is a major contribution to post-Keynesian thought. With studies of the key pioneers - Keynes himself, Kalecki, Kahn, Goodwin, Kaldor, Joan Robinson, Sraffa and Pasinetti - G. C. Harcourt emphasizes their positive contributions to theor…

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Lament for Economics

by Barbara Wootton

2003

Does economics actually help us to understand and solve real world problems? Examining and analysing the role of economics and economic theory in the social and political life of the early twentieth century, many of the arguments contained …

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