This volume, comprising nine original essays assessing different aspects of the concept of economic structure, represents a wide-ranging inquiry into the general field of structural economic analysis and provides a thorough appraisal of the method of economic dynamics.

Product Description: In the words of Robert M. Solow traverse analysis "is the easiest part of skiing, but the hardest part of economics". The aim of this volume is to assess the state and scope of modern traverse analysis as it had been initiated by John Hicks in his pioneering contribution Capital and Time (1973)...read more

Product Description: This volume outlines a novel approach to the analysis of structural economic dynamics. It is based on detailed considerations of micro-organizational features of economic systems, and how networking patterns of technological and institutional change influence them...read more

Product Description: This volume considers the migration of ideas in conjunction with the migration of scientists and scholars, and examines the critical role of political upheavals and major wars in that connection.

Product Description: This volume broadens our concept of reasoning and rationality to allow for a more pluralistic and situational view of human thinking as a practical activity. Drawing on contributors across disciplines including philosophy, economics, psychology, statistics, computer science, engineering, and physics, Reasoning, Rationality, and Probability argues that the search for strong theories should leave room for the construction of context-sensitive conceptual tools...read more

Product Description: Structural change analysis has been a distinctive feature of economics since its formative period. This authoritative three-volume collection presents a comprehensive selection of the key contributions to the topic. "The Economics of Structural Change" shows the central role that compositional dynamics plays in the analysis of fluctuations, development, employment and economy-environment interactions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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)

Product Description: This book explores an evolutionary theory of scientific knowledge, and provides the basis for a new linguistic approach to methodology. Including an original essay by the late Thomas Kuhn, this volume takes inspiration from his work in history and the philosophy of sciences...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book presents a new theoretical framework for the analysis of production processes. Based on a rigorous reconstruction of the intellectual heritage of economics, it also considers issues traditionally left aside by economists--the distinctions of the three dimensions of the production process (tasks, capabilities, and materials in process), the organizational approach to scale and size, and the idea that different institutional set-ups may be compatible with the same objective standard of efficiency...read more