Societies, whether traditional or modern, experience tension between spontaneity (individual freedom) and control (regulation). Consequently, economies as a subsystem of society experience it too. More specifically, they experience a tension ......
The introduction of a single European currency constitutes a remarkable instance of internationalization of monetary policy. Whether a concomitant internationalization can be detected also in the econometric foundations of monetary policy is the ......
Arguments to support free-market capitalism have usually come from economists and have stressed the efficiency of the economic system as basic to encouraging the production of wealth. Such arguments assume the essential value of a productive ......
This is not an economics book. It is a book about the application of economic principles and concepts in decision making related to space activities. The book is primarily tutorial and elaborates upon concepts and methodology and their ......
Innovation is important for all countries seeking to maintain or improve their competitive advantage in the global economy. This text addresses major policy debates in science, technology and innovation focusing mainly on Europe, but also ......
This book presents an overview and assessment of the conceptual advances in economics during the last century. The book relies heavily on engaging examples, intended to draw in the reader and to demonstrate the far-reaching application of ......
A leading international economist looks at many of the key issues of trade policy now confronting the United States and the world in this timely book....
There is an increasingly widespread belief, both within and outside the discipline, that modern economics is irrelevant to the understanding of the real world. Economics and Reality traces this irrelevance to the failure of economists to match ......
"I am aware of no work that treats the history of telephone regulation in the United States with such care, at such length, or so evenhandedly. Further, the book is not merely history but economic history, in the sense that the economic ......
