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wars than peace : Pareto and English economists -- 6. A Unitarian reading of Pareto's paradoxes in the theory of choice …. This book reconstructs the genesis and significance of Pareto's theory of choice which is Pareto's greatest contribution to …
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rationality. The analysis begins with the development of modern decision theory, covers the interwar debates over the role of … that the notion of rationality suffered a profound transformation that reduced it to a formal property of consistency. Such … of game and decision theory …
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adding to the existing thought in this area, with insights from game theory, rational choice under uncertainty and new …
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Greening the Budget regards the fundamental cause of environmental degradation as government and market failure and proposes the use of budgets as an instrument of environmental policy to rectify this problem. The book focuses on the elements of the public budget which currently affect the...
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Nobel Prize winner James Tobin has made outstanding contributions to modern macroeconomics. In this final collection of his work he examines the economic policies of the United States and its relations with other major economies after 1990. In James Tobin's view, the welfare of populations...
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This ambitious book seeks both to revive and revise the idea of 'functional finance'. Followers of this doctrine believe that government budgets should concentrate solely on their macroeconomic impact on the economy, rather than reflecting a concern for sound finance and budgetary discipline....
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"Presenting innovative modelling approaches to the analysis of fiscal policy and government debt, this book moves beyond previous models that have relied upon the assumption that various age-specific rates and policy variables remain unchanged when it comes to generating government expenditures...
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Tabellini (1994), 'Is Inequality Harmful for Growth?,' American Economic Review, 84 (3), June, 600-621 -- Roland Bénabou , (2000 … and Omer Moav (2004), 'From Physical to Human Capital Accumulation: Inequality and the Process of Development', Review of …-32 -- Oded Galor , Omer Moav and Dietrich Vollrath (2009), 'Inequality in Landownership, the Emergence of Human-Capital Promoting …
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The growing levels of income inequality, an explosion of global financial flows, and a worldwide decline of economic … for an expansionary and progressive economic policy. Reviewing several schools of thought, Inequality, Growth and 'Hot …
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1. Introduction -- Part I: basic concepts -- 2. Piketty's contribution -- 3. Measurement -- 4. Inequality and aggregate … debt and instability -- 7. Recursive workhorses -- Part III: the macro inference of inequality -- 8. Rent, wealth and … bubbles -- 9. A model with heterogeneous supply -- 10. Wealth and capital gains in financial markets -- Part IV: inequality …
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