| Description |
xvi, 397 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: The Rationalists and Individual Choice. -- Rational People Do Good Things. -- The Dangers of Big Government, Firsthand. -- Explaining Our Social Relationships. -- Questioning Neoclassical Theory. -- Limits to Rationality and the Role of Government. -- Individual Rationality and Collective Irrationality. -- The Tension Between Individual and Social Welfare. -- A Better Way to Handle Externalities. -- Is There Room in Economics for Ethics? -- Measuring To Understand. -- Business Cycles and Dynamic Analysis. -- Balancing Realism with Simplicity. -- Acknowledging and Incorporating. -- Probability in Econometric Models. -- Artificial Intelligence, Expert Systems, and Policy Wonks. -- When Cycles Become Depressions. -- Business Cycles and the Unemployment-Inflation Trade-Off. -- When Government Involvement Interferes with Economic Efficiency. -- holding Money Is the Reverse of Money Turnover. -- The Perverse Effects of Expectations. -- How Does Economic Policy Work in the Real World? -- The Model Builders. -- Everything Depends on Everything Else. -- Filling the Theoretical Boxes. -- The Building Blocks of Income, Employment, and Prices. -- Documenting National Income and Growth. -- Economic Growth and Development. -- The Theory Underlying Economic Growth. -- Accounting for Human Capital Investment. -- Brining Economic Development to Poor Nations. -- Using Econometrics to Explain Economic Development. -- Financing Grwoth-promoting Investments. -- Historical Perspectives. -- Explaining a Firm's Financing Decision. -- Incorporating Time in the Financial Decision. -- Globalizing Resource Allocation. -- Combining Public Investment with Private Investment to Promote Growth. -- Society's Institutions: Their Origins and Potential for Change. -- People's Interactions Are Like Games. -- Some Games are Improved by Bargaining. -- Games Without Full Information Require Use of Probabilities. -- How Institutions Have Evolved. -- Changing One "Peculiar" Institution. -- Conclusion |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-387) and index |
| Notes |
Also available as an electronic book via the World Wide Web to institutions affiliated with netLibrary, Inc |
| Subject |
Economics -- History -- 20th century.
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Economists.
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Nobel Prizes -- History.
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| LC no. |
00024447 |
| ISBN |
0071356142 |
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0071379126 (electronic bk.) |
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