Ekonomisk teori & filosofi

INTERNATIONELL BÄSTSÄLJARE Psykologen Daniel Kahneman, som belönats med Ekonomipriset till Alfred Nobels minne för sin banbrytande forskning, anses vara en av vår tids viktigaste tänkare. Hans forskning har haft stort inflytande inom en rad olika om…

Kommer att förändra ditt sätt att tänka om hur du tänker för alltid. Daniel Kahneman, som belönats med Ekonomipriset till Alfred Nobels minne för sin banbrytande forskning, anses vara en av vår tids viktigaste tänkare. Hans forskning har haft stort…

Kommer att förändra ditt sätt att tänka om hur du tänker för alltid. Daniel Kahneman, som belönats med Ekonomipriset till Alfred Nobels minne för sin banbrytande forskning, anses vara en av vår tids viktigaste tänkare. Hans forskning har haft stort…

"Sacred Economics "traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity, destroyed community, and necessitated endless growth. Today, th…

Global ekonomi baseras på erfarenheter från många länder och från det globala ekonomiska systemet. Den andra upplagan av Global ekonomi är kraftigt omarbetad och uppdaterad. De senaste forskningsrönen i nationalekonomi beskrivs här på ett begripligt…

What is wrong with today's banking system? The past few years have shown that risks in banking can impose significant costs on the economy. Many claim, however, that a safer banking system would require sacrificing lending and economic growth. "The…

EKONOMISK DOKTRINHISTORIA är en grundbok i de ekonomiska teoriernas historia. Den innehåller en översikt av nationalekonomins utveckling från antiken till 2000-talets början. Boken beskriver hur olika ekonomiska teorier, metoder och modeller vuxit f…

Adam Smith har blivit en symbol för såväl liberalismen som för ekonomisk forskning över huvud taget. Han stod vid en knutpunkt i den ekonomiska idéhistorien. Många av de element han byggde sin nationalekonomiska analys på hade redan tidigare formule…

Now in paperback: David Graeber's "fresh . . . fascinating . . . thought-provoking . . . and exceedingly timely" ("Financial Times") history of debt Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal…

The new edition of this bestselling textbook covers Macroeconomics today, balancing short-run and long-run issues in a way that emphasises the relevance of Keynesian and classical ideas to current practice. Featuring the latest data and extensive co…

Mikroekonomi behandlar de små (mikro-) enheterna i ekonomin, dvs konsumenter och företag. I denna bok behandlas samhällets grundläggande resursfördelningsproblem: 1. Vad ska produceras? 2. Hur ska det produceras? 3. Vem ska…

Of paramount importance to the natural sciences, the principles of Darwinism, which involve variation, inheritance, and selection, are increasingly of interest to social scientists as well. But no one has provided a truly rigorous account of how the…

Of paramount importance to the natural sciences, the principles of Darwinism, which involve variation, inheritance, and selection, are increasingly of interest to social scientists as well. But no one has provided a truly rigorous account of how the…

Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations is the first book of modern political economy, and still provides the foundation for the study of that discipline. Along with important discussions of economics and political theory, it mixes plain common sense with la…

I Frihet att välja sammanfattar Milton och Rose Friedman sin syn på människan, staten och ekonomin. genom en resa i tid och rum visar de vilka fantastiska ting människan är kapabel till om hon får frihet över sitt eget liv, men också vilka katastrof…

Macroeconomics presents a new approach to macroeconomics, based on microeconomic foundations combined with Keynesian-style short-run policy analysis. The book features: * A pronounced international stance, systematically presenting data from several…

Conservatives in America have succeeded in casting government spending as useless profligacy that has made their economy worse, centering the policy debate in the wake of the financial crisis on draconian budget cuts. Americans are told that they ne…

Games are everywhere: Drivers manoeuvring in heavy traffic are playing a driving game. Bargain hunters bidding on eBay are playing an auctioning game. A firm negotiating next year's wage is playing a bargaining game. The opposing candidates in an el…

Economists have always recognised that human endeavours are constrained by our limited and uncertain knowledge, but only recently has an accepted theory of uncertainty and information evolved. This theory has turned out to have surprisingly practica…

"Public Finance 9/e" benefits from the combined efforts of Harvey Rosen's market-leading book and co-author Ted Gayer's research and government agency experience. This combination of experience is able to explain as clearly as possible how the tools…

"Public Finance, 9/e" benefits from the combined efforts of Harvey Rosen's market-leading book and co-author Ted Gayer's research and government agency experience. This combination of experience is able to explain as clearly as possible how the tool…

You might be thinking everything's okay: the stock market is on the rise, jobs are growing, the worst of it is over. You'd be wrong. In The Real Crash, New York Times bestselling author Peter D. Schiff argues that America is enjoying a government-in…

In this revolutionary bestseller, innovation expert Clayton M. Christensen says outstanding companies can do everything right and still lose their market leadership--or worse, disappear altogether. And not only does he prove what he says, but he tel…

'Applied Econometrics' takes an intuitive, hands-on approach to presenting modern econometrics. Wide-ranging yet compact, the book features extensive software integration and contains empirical applications throughout. It provides step-by-step guide…

The third volume of the book that changed the course of world history, Capital's final chapters were Marx's most controversial writings on the subject, and were never completed.

What's the matter with Wall Street? And how do we fix it? Even after the global financial meltdown of 2008, economists have clung to Adam Smith's "Invisible Hand" theory of an always self-regulating market that benefits private and public interests…

Ekonomisk tillväxt - Pocketbiblioteket, nr 2. Ekonomisk tillväxt debatteras flitigt. Men vad är tillväxt? Vilka för- och nackdelar för den med sig? Vad skapar tillväxt? Och vilka är hindren? Vad händer om Sverige inte når en hög ekonomisk tillväxt?…

Few discussions in modern social science have occupied as much attention as the changing nature of welfare states in Western societies. Gosta Esping-Andersen, one of the foremost contributors to current debates on this issue, here provides a new ana…

The "forgotten" second volume of Capital, Marx's world-shaking analysis of economics, politics, and history, contains the vital discussion of commodity, the cornerstone to Marx's theories.

How an Economy Grows and Why it Doesn't uses illustration, humour, and accessible storytelling to explain complex topics of economic growth and monetary systems. In it, economic expert and bestselling author, Peter Schiff, presents economics in two…

This book is about competitive advantage and how it is created at the company level. It is based on the premise that the alignment of strategies and control systems affects the firm's chances of successfully positioning itself in its chosen arena of…

Joseph Schumpeter, en av 1900-talets mest briljanta nationalekonomer, var den som återförde entreprenören, den företagande människan, till analysens fokus. Schumpeter introducerade också begreppet "skapande förstörelse", och därmed analysen av de sa…

A very clear, reliable and readable history of economic thought from the ancient world to the present day. From Homer to Marx to John Stuart Mill, Backhouse shows how to keep your Keynsians from your post-Keynsians and New Keynsians. This is a core…

This book provides a thorough and invaluable framework for those facing questions of business ethics and corporate governance. What are business's proper responsibilities? Is bribery ever moral? When are take-overs and redundancy ethical? Every busi…

Om den skotske filosofen Adam Smith (1723-90,)national-ekonomins fader med en laissez-faire-attityd till marknaden. Här behandlas hans verk, hans omväxlande liv och hans författarskap. Denna titel har tidigare givits ut av SNS förlag men ingår numer…

Never before have so many Americans been more frustrated with our economic system, more fearful that it is failing, or more open to fresh ideas about a new one. The seeds of a new movement demanding change are forming.But just what is this thing cal…

Never before have so many Americans been more frustrated with our economic system, more fearful that it is failing, or more open to fresh ideas about a new one. The seeds of a new movement demanding change are forming.But just what is this thing cal…

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enrich…

David Harvey är en av vår tids ledande samhällsteoretiker och den enskilt viktigaste idag verksamme geografen. Genom sin banbrytande forskning har han utarbetat en omfattande kritik av den samtida kapitalismen som rönt uppmärksamhet inom en rad akad…

It is a rare professor who greatly alters the thinking of his professional colleagues. It's an even rarer one who helps transform the world. Friedman has done both." - Stephen Chapman, Chicago Tribune How can we benefit from the promise of governmen…

Widely adopted, this unique text critically evaluates the leading theories of international economic development, from classical economic and sociological models to Marxist, poststructuralist, and feminist perspectives. No other book provides such c…

Widely adopted, this unique text critically evaluates the leading theories of international economic development, from classical economic and sociological models to Marxist, poststructuralist, and feminist perspectives. No other book provides such c…

In this remarkable collection of essays, Michael Burawoy develops the extended case method by connecting his own experiences among workers of the world to the great transformations of the twentieth century - the rise and fall of the Soviet Union and…

In Development as Freedom Amartya Sen explains how in a world of unprecedented increase in overall opulence millions of people living in the Third World are still unfree. Even if they are not technically slaves, they are denied elementary freedoms a…

Why are people loyal? How do groups form and how do they create incentives for their members to abide by group norms? Until now, economics has only been able to partially answer these questions. In this groundbreaking work, Paul Frijters presents a…

Hayek gives the main arguments for the free-market case and presents his manifesto on the "errors of socialism." Hayek argues that socialism has, from its origins, been mistaken on factual, and even on logical, grounds and that its repeated failures…

An unimpeachable classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, "The Road to Serfdom" has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century. Originally published in 1944 -…

Since first published in 2002, After Capitalism has offered students and political activists alike a coherent vision of a viable and desirable alternative to capitalism. David Schweickart calls this system Economic Democracy, a successor-system to c…

The distinctive feature of this book is that it provides a unified framework for the analysis of short- and medium-run macroeconomics. This gives students a model that they can use themselves to understand a wide range of real-world macroeconomic be…

By itself, this is a book about work, but it's also more than that. It is an outline of an analysis of capitalism: what it is, how it works, how we might dis-mantle it. And the book and the analysis are outgrowths of something more a movement of peo…

It often seems that different crises are competing to devastate civilisation. This book argues that financial meltdown, dwindling oil reserves, terrorism and food shortages need to be considered as part of the same ailing system. Most accounts of ou…

Since the end of World War II, economists have tried to figure out how poor countries in the tropics could attain standards of living approaching those of countries in Europe and North America. Attempted remedies have included providing foreign aid,…

John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) is a central thinker of the twentieth century, not just an economic theorist and statesman, but also in economics, philosophy, politics, and culture. In this Very Short Introduction Lord Skidelsky, a renowned biograph…

There are not many books that are genuine classics, and only a handful in business and management whose insights and ideas last for 50 years and more. This book is one of the very few 'must reads' for anybody seriously interested in the role of mana…

In the graveyard of economic ideology, dead ideas still stalk the land. The recent financial crisis laid bare many of the assumptions behind market liberalism - the theory that market-based solutions are always best, regardless of the problem. For d…