I. Extensions of the Predator-Prey-Model of a Growth Cycle -- Implications of Workers’ Savings for Economic Growth and the Class Struggle -- Alternative Monetary Policies in a Classical Growth Cycle -- Unemployment Insurance and Cyclical Growth -- A Generalization of R.Goodwin’s Model with...

This volume provides a rigorous and analytical perspective on the pressing issue of making economic progress consistent with environmental conservation. It proposes formal definitions of sustainability, embeds them in dynamic models and models of uncertainty, and explores the concepts and their...

1. Normative Foundations -- Part I: Financial Economics and Macroeconomics after WWII -- 2. The Second Financialisation -- 3. The Emergence of Modern Financial Economics -- 4. Finance and Macroeconomics -- Part II: The regulation of the financial system after the crisis -- 5. The Great Financial...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of Keynes' contributions to macroeconomics and offers an in-depth analysis of the contested legacy of The General Theory, a book that marked the emergence of modern macroeconomics from the earlier heritage of monetary theory and business cycle and...

Corporate social responsibility is examined in this book as multi-stakeholder approach to corporate governance. This volume outlines neo-institutional and stakeholder theories of the firm, new rational choice and social contract normative models, self regulatory and soft law models, and the...

Economics has paid little attention to the psychology of economic behaviour, leading to somewhat simplistic assumptions about human nature. The psychological aspects have typically been reduced to standard utility theory, based on a narrow conception of rationality and self-interest...