California, USA: Stanford University Press, 2018. — 240 p. — (Currencies: New Thinking for Financial Times). — ISBN: 1503606260, 1503607100. Speculation is often associated with financial practices, but The Time of Money makes the case that it not be restricted to the financial sphere. It argues that the expansion of finance has created a distinctive social world, one that...
Harvard Uniwersity Press, 1993. — 245 p. Women as commercial baby factories, nature as an economic resource, life as one big shopping mall: This is what we get when we use the market as a common measure of value. Elizabeth Anderson offers an alternative - a new theory of value and rationality that rejects cost-benefit analysis in our social lives, and in our ethical theories....
Wiley, 2010. — 496 p. — ISBN10: 0470725222; ISBN13: 978-0470725221. October 19th 1987 was a day of huge change for the global finance industry. On this day the stock market crashed, the Nobel Prize winning Black-Scholes formula failed and volatility smiles were born, and on this day Elie Ayache began his career, on the trading floor of the French Futures and Options Exchange....
Malden, MA: Wiley, 2010. — 496 p. — ISBN10: 0470725222; ISBN13: 978-0470725221. October 19th 1987 was a day of huge change for the global finance industry. On this day the stock market crashed, the Nobel Prize winning Black-Scholes formula failed and volatility smiles were born, and on this day Elie Ayache began his career, on the trading floor of the French Futures and Options...
Routledge, 2018. — 254 p. — ISBN: 978-0415161886. With the failure of economics to predict the recent economic crisis, the image of economics as a rigorous mathematical science has been subjected to increasing interrogation. One explanation for this failure is that the subject took a wrong turn in its historical trajectory, becoming too mathematical. Using the philosophy of...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 277 p. Many economic problems are also ethical problems: should we value equality? How much should we care about preserving the environment? How should medical resources be divided between saving life and enhancing life? It also turns out that many of the formal techniques of economics can do important work in ethical theory. In particular,...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 352 p. This book provides a contextual study of the development of Alfred Marshall’s thinking during the early years of his apprenticeship in the Cambridge moral sciences. Marshall’s thought is situated in a crisis of academic liberal thinking that occurred in the late 1860s. His crisis of faith is shown to have formed part of his wider...
Touchstone, 2020. — 448 p. The Sovereign Individual details strategies necessary for adapting financially to the next phase of Western civilization. Few observers of the late twentieth century have their fingers so presciently on the pulse of the global political and economic realignment ushering in the new millennium as do James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg. Their...
New York: Routledge, 2012. — 281 p. This book examines the ways in which our ideas about language and identity which used to be framed in national and political terms as a matter of rights and citizenship are increasingly recast in economic terms as a matter of added value. It argues that this discursive shift is connected to specific characteristics of the globalized new...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 257 p. — ISBN: 0198826397, 9780198826392. This new book analyses the challenge of how money (including coins, notes, credit, and virtual currency) should be defined from both a legal and an economic perspective. As new electronic payment mechanisms proliferate, this question of definition is likely to become an important issue in global legal,...
Routledge, 2021. — 533 p. — (Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy). — ISBN: 9781317578062. The most fundamental questions of economics are often philosophical, and philosophers have, since the very beginning of Western philosophy, asked many questions that current observers would identify as economic. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Economics is an outstanding reference...
Zed Books, 2011. — 1672 p. — ISBN: 9781780322209. What is the score card for economics at the start of the new millennium? While there are many different schools of economic thought, it is the neo-classical school, with its alleged understanding and simplistic advocacy of the market, that has become equated in the public mind with economics. This book shows that virtually every...
Wiley, 2009. — 688 p. — ISBN: 0195189256, 9780195189254. The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Economics is a cutting-edge reference work to philosophical issues in the practice of economics. It is motivated by the view that there is more to economics than general equilibrium theory, and that the philosophy of economics should reflect the diversity of activities and topics that...
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021. — 384 p. This insightful Modern Guide offers a broad coverage of questions and controversies encountered by contemporary economists. A refreshing approach to the philosophy of economics, chapters comprise a range of methodological and theoretical perspectives, from lab and field experiments to macroeconomics and applied policy work, written using...
Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2012. — 95 p. The significance of property ownership has rarely been fully appreciated, writes Robert LeFevre. He proceeds to present the entire libertarian case for private ownership, with his characteristic clarity of exposition. He makes what is a radically hard-core case for the absolute integrity of self ownership and property ownership — but in...
Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2012. — 114 p. In summarizing Mises's theory of money, author Gary North draws heavily on the two major works that dealt with monetary theory and written by Ludwig von Mises himself, The Theory of Money and Credit and Human Action, plus a few minor books. North covers five themes: the definition of money; the optimum quantity of money, and how to...
Wiley, 2010. — 799 p. — ISBN: 978-0-470-67793-3 The Anarchic Economy The Connected Economy The Unstable Economy The Extreme Economy The Emotional Economy The Gendered Economy The Unfair Economy The Over — Sized Economy The Unhappy Economy The Good Economy
Zed Books, 2011. — 573 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78032-363-3. Economics between History and Antropology A Failed Scientific Ambitions Homo Oeconomicus : A Dangerous Phantom Exchange The Fairy Tale of Scarcity Utility and Futility Equillibrium The Growth Obsession Growth Objection Economic " Science " as Religion Towards a New Paradigm?
Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2012. — 352 p. Stephan Kinsella says that he has "highly recommended this book for years as one of the best introductions to libertarian/free market thought." Enrico Peppe says it is "straightforward, logical, and fun." Thank goodness it is available again! What you will find here are more than one hundred short essays on every topic related to...
Routldge, 2004. — 504 p. In The Philosophy of Money, Georg Simmel presents a remarkable and wide-ranging discussion of the social, psychological and philosophical aspects of the money economy. He provides us with a detailed analysis of the circulation and exchange of commodities, while considering the relationship of money to the human personality, the position of women,...
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018. — 296 p. — ISBN10: 1503605663; ISBN13: 978-1503605664 — (Cultural Memory in the Present) This book shows how early economic ideas structured Christian thought and society, giving crucial insight into why money holds such power in the West. Examining the religious and theological sources of money's power, it shows how early Christian...
Other Press, 2012. — 256 p. — ISBN: 1590515072. A provocative and timely call for a moral approach to economics, drawing on philosophers, political theorists, writers, and economists from Aristotle to Marx to Keynes. What constitutes the good life? What is the true value of money? Why do we work such long hours merely to acquire greater wealth? These are some of the questions...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 314 p. The rhetoric of internationalization and globalization often suggests an inexorable move away from domestic cultural and institutional differences. Yet the development of internationalization within individual nations has been shaped by those very domestic institutions and cultures, as 'best practice' or other kinds of international...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 296 p. From the first stock markets of Amsterdam and London to the millions of credit card transactions governed by arbitration, privately produced and enforced economic regulations are more common, more effective, and more promising than commonly considered. In Private Governance, prominent economist Edward Stringham presents case-studies of...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 366 p. — ISBN: 9781107083547 Possession is a key concept in both the common and civil law, but it has hitherto received little scrutiny. Law and Economics of Possession uses insights from economics, psychology and history to analyze possession in law, compare and contrast possession with ownership, break down the elements of possession as a...
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