Product Description: Ever since Adam Smith, economists have been preoccupied with the puzzle of economic growth. The mainstream neo-classical models of growth that have largely dominated modern growth theory are based around assumptions of diminishing returns on extra capital with technological innovation and appropriate institutions being seen as key to economic growth...read more

Product Description: This book is a companion volume to the Royal Economic Society edition of The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo, edited by Piero Sraffa with the collaboration of Maurice Dobb. It completes the record on Ricardian value theory by showing Ricardo's reaction to Malthus's pamphlet The Measure of Value Stated and Illustrated of 1823...read more

Product Description: This book is a welcome consolidation and extension of the recent expanding debates on happiness and economics. Happiness and economics, as a new field for research, is now of pivotal interest particularly to welfare economists and psychologists...read more

Provides an overview of the relationship between economics and happiness. Including contributions from those who helped to establish this field, this book explores the meaning of happiness and discusses the tension between various definitions. It is intended for students and academics.

Product Description: This text gives rise to an institutional analysis of the economy centred around the division of labour and social knowledge. The book begins with the issue of scientific development as an aspect of division of labour, before exploring issues on the moral bases of social interaction...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)