Social Science Knowledge and Economic Development

Vernon W Ruttan

• Hardcover | Engels | Economics, Cognition, and Society
• Ruttan advances a model of institutional change, which creates an environment where resource and cultural endowments and technical change can take pla... Lees meer

Reputation

• Hardcover | Engels | Economics, Cognition, and Society
• Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that have not wit enough to be honest, wrote Benjamin Franklin. This volume explores ways in which the ... Lees meer

Preference Pollution

David George

• Paperback | Engels | Economics, Cognition, and Society
• Seldom considered is whether markets do an adequate job of shaping our tastes. David George argues that they do not, and that the standard economic de... Lees meer

Growth Recurring

Eric Lionel Jones

• Hardcover | Engels | Economics, Cognition, and Society
• This important book compares the growth achieved in Japan and Europe with the frustrated growth in the major societies of mainland Eurasia. More broad... Lees meer

Increasing Returns and Path Dependence in the Economy

W Brian Arthur

• Paperback | Engels | Economics, Cognition, and Society
• This book brings together Professor Arthur's pioneering article and provide a comprehensive presentation of his exciting vision of an economics that i... Lees meer

Trust, Ethnicity, and Identity

Janet Landa

• Hardcover | Engels | Economics, Cognition, and Society
• Trust, Ethnicity, and Identity deals with the economic role of laws and institutions in achieving social order in a decentralized economy. Specificall... Lees meer

Paradigms and Conventions

Young Back Choi

• Hardcover | Economics, Cognition, and Society
• An innovative approach to the analysis of decision making under uncertainty Lees meer

Signaling Goodness

Phillip J Nelson, Kenneth V Greene

• Hardcover | Engels | Economics, Cognition, and Society
• Political, intellectual, and academic discourse in the United States has been awash in political correctness, which has itself been berated and defend... Lees meer

Markets and Cultural Voices

Tyler Cowen

• Paperback | Engels | Economics, Cognition, and Society
• This intriguing work explores the world of three amate artists. A native tradition, all of their painting is done in Mexico, yet, the finished product... Lees meer

The Cooperator's Dilemma

• Hardcover | Engels | Economics, Cognition, and Society
• In The Cooperator's Dilemma , Mark Lichbach provides an up-to-date and complete evaluation of the collective-action approach. A special strength of th... Lees meer

The Cult of Statistical Significance

Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, Steve Ziliak

• Hardcover | Engels | Economics, Cognition, and Society
• "McCloskey and Ziliak have been pushing this very elementary, very correct, very important argument through several articles over several years and fo... Lees meer

From Liberty to Democracy

Randall G Holcombe

• Hardcover | Engels | Economics, Cognition, and Society
• At the nation's founding, the fundamental principle underlying American government was liberty, and the nation's new government was designed to protec... Lees meer

Imperfect Institutions

Thráinn Eggertsson

• Paperback | Engels | Economics, Cognition, and Society
• The emergence of New Institutional Economics toward the end of the twentieth century profoundly changed our ideas about the organization of economic s... Lees meer