Hermeneutical retrieval -- Retrieving the classical theory of rent -- Ricardo or Marx? The reduction to labor -- Otherwise than capital? -- A phenomenology of land -- Givenness and ground -- The being of land -- Excess and gravity -- The economic turn -- Correlating land -- Dilemma of the...

The past half‐century has seen economic research become increasingly empirical, while the nature of empirical economic research has also changed. In the 1960s and 1970s, an empirical economist's typical mission was to "explain" economic variables like wages or GDP growth. Applied econometrics...

The overall aim of this book, an outcome of the European FP7 FET Open NESS project, is to contribute to the ongoing effort to put the quantitative social sciences on a proper footing for the 21st century. A key focus is economics, and its implications on policy making, where the still dominant...