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Gilboa, Itzhak - The MIT Press

, probability and statistics, aggregation of preferences, games and equilibria, free markets, and rationality and emotions. Online …

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The Marketplace of Christianity

Robert B. Ekelund Jr.; Hebert, Robert F.; Tollison, … - The MIT Press

This startlingly original (and sure to be controversial) account of the evolution of Christianity shows that the … economics of religion has little to do with counting the money in the collection basket and much to do with understanding the … organized body of worshipers, it's natural to use a science that seeks to explain the behavior of organization—economics …

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The Failure of Judges and the Rise of Regulators

Shleifer, Andrei - The MIT Press

Government regulation is ubiquitous today in rich and middle-income countries--present in areas that range from workplace conditions to food processing to school curricula--although standard economic theories predict that it should be rather uncommon. In this book, Andrei Shleifer argues that...

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The Craft of Economics: Lessons from the Heckscher-Ohlin Framework

Leamer, Edward E. - The MIT Press

competition into an opportunity to consider the craft of economics: what economists do, what they should do, and what they shouldn …-driven economics needs more prose and less math. Leamer shows that the Heckscher–Ohlin framework is still useful, and that there is …

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Optimal Control Theory with Applications in Economics

Weber, Thomas A. - The MIT Press

This book bridges optimal control theory and economics, discussing ordinary differential equations, optimal control … introduction to the use of optimal control theory for deterministic continuous-time systems in economics. The theory of ordinary …

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Midbrain Mutiny: The Picoeconomics and Neuroeconomics of Disordered Gambling: Economic Theory and Cognitive Science

Ross, Don; Sharp, Carla; Vuchinich, Rudy E.; Spurrett, David - The MIT Press

The explanatory power of economic theory is tested by the phenomenon of irrational consumption, examples of which include such addictive behaviors as disordered and pathological gambling. Midbrain Mutiny examines different economic models of disordered gambling, using the frameworks of...

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Theory for Economic Efficiency: Essays in Honor of Abba P. Lerner

Greenfield, Harry I. (contributor); … - The MIT Press

Paul Samuelson once noted that "Abba Lerner has been a great theoretical economist in a vintage epoch for theorists. This last third of a century he has poured out one brilliant paper after another-in micro theory and macro, in pure thought, and in the realms of policy." Lerner's colleagues at...

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Economic Theory and Cognitive Science: Microexplanation

Ross, Don - The MIT Press

In this study, Don Ross explores the relationship of economics to other branches of behavioral science, asking, in the … course of his analysis, under what interpretation economics is a sound empirical science. The book explores the relationships … economics—the cognitive and behavioral sciences. It asks whether the increasingly sophisticated techniques of microeconomic …

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Economics for Policymaking: Selected Essays of Arthur M. Okun

Okun, Arthur M. - The MIT Press

Arthur Okun - teacher at Yale in the 1950s, member and later Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisors in the 1960s, and Fellow of the Brookings Institution throughout the 1970s - was one of the three or four most important macroeconomists of the past twenty years. He was perhaps...

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The Collected Scientific Papers of Paul Samuelson

Samuelson, Paul A. - The MIT Press

. Volume 6 offers essays on classical economics; neoclassical, Marxian, and Sraffian economics; modern macroeconomics; welfare … and efficiency economics; and economic and scientific theories. Volume 7 covers stochastic theory; modern economic policy …

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