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His use of economic metaphor extended beyond the common use of such during his time, and commented upon the valuation of currency, the minting of coins, the supply of gold and its affect upon economic prosperity, and capital investment.
Perhaps the best place to center the discussion is that aspect of economics that has always been of the most immediate interest, currency.
This view, that the dilution of the precious metal in the currency made it necessary to spend more in order to obtain the same goods, was in competition with an older view, which was that the currency itself had no intrinsic value, but only the value that the monarch gave to it.
http://www.geocities.com/milleldred/donneeconimics.html

  
 Footnotes; James M. Buchanan, Cost and Choice: An Inquiry in Economic Theory: Library of Economics and Liberty
This group was interested in making economic theory of greater practical relevance for business operations and especially for accounting practice.
For a summary of the history of cost theory in which Davenport's ideas are prominently featured, see Bob M. Keeney, "The Evolution of Cost Doctrine" (Mimeographed, Midwestern Economics Association, November 1967).
In noncompetitive structures, by contrast, the attempt to levy corrective taxes on an externality-generating firm may do more harm than good.
http://www.econlib.org/library/Buchanan/buchCv6Notes.html

  
 Martin Shubik: Economic Theory
The Core, Preferences for Risk and Insurance Markets,” Economic Record, 51, March 1975, 73-83.
“Simulation of the Industry and the Firm,” American Economic Review, 50, 5, 1960, 908-919.
“Information, Risk, Ignorance and Indeterminacy,” The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 68, November 1954, 629-640.
http://www.som.yale.edu/Faculty/mss1/economic.htm

  
 Legal Theory Blog
Adopting economic accounts that demonstrate the real world value of these objects and the exchange mechanisms for trading these objects, we show that, descriptively, these types of objects are indistinguishable from real world property interests.
Here, we study the introduction of income aspirations in individuals' utility functions in order to improve our understanding of how income affects individual well-being.
Legal Theory Blog comments and reports on recent scholarship in jurisprudence, law and philosophy, law and economic theory, and theoretical work in substantive areas, such as constitutional law, cyberlaw, procedure, criminal law, intellectual property, torts, contracts, etc.
http://lsolum.blogspot.com/2003_05_01_lsolum_archive.html

  
 Elster, Jon (1989), Social Norms and Economic Theory
There is a whole set of customs and norms which might be similarly interpreted as agreements to improve the efficiency of the economic system (in the broad sense of satisfaction of individual values) by providing commodities to which the price system is inapplicable.
It might also be argued that social norms are individually useful in that they help people to economize on decision costs.
Akerlof, G., "A Theory of Social Custom, of Which Unemployment May be One Consequence," Quarterly Joumal of Economics, 1980, 94, 749-75.
http://www.geocities.com/hmelberg/elster/AR89SNAE.HTM

  
 Economic Theory [Virtual Economy]
This marked the birth of Keynesian economics and most post-war governments managed the economy using Keynesian policies up until the beginning of the 1970s.
However, the Conservative government of the 1980s gradually became disillusioned with Monetarism and then returned to a modern variation of classical economic management - Neo-Classical economics.
Like Classical economics, it stresses the role of free markets in delivering the best possible level of economic growth.
http://www.bized.ac.uk/virtual/economy/library/theory

  
 Welcome to the website of The Econometric Society An International Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory in ...
Log in is required only for the full text of the Journal and to amend membership details.
Welcome to the website of The Econometric Society An International Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory in its Relation to Statistics and Mathematics
http://www.econometricsociety.org/

  
 Neoclassical Economic Theory
Models with stochastic decision rules, like the model proposed by Luce (1959), described in Section 2.4.2, or the ``elimination by aspects'' approach, proposed by Tverski (1972), assumes a deterministic utility and a probabilistic decision process.
The neoclassical economic theory assumes that each decision-maker is able to compare two alternatives a and b in the choice set
Next: The Luce model Up: Decision rules Previous: Decision rules
http://rosowww.epfl.ch/mbi/papers/discretechoice/node7.html

  
 Journal of Public Economic Theory Home Page
This quarterly journal focuses on such topics as public goods, local public goods, club economies, externalities, taxation, growth, public choice, social and public decision making, voting, market failure, regulation, project evaluation, equity, and political systems.
"The intersection of economics, political science, social choice, public choice and game theory holds some of the most fertile activities of basic research.
"Librarians should consider the Journal of Public Economic Theory as an excellent addition to any collection supporting the research needs of public or theoretical economists or political scientists."
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=1097-3923

  
 The Unofficial Paul Krugman Web Page
Krugman/Wells Economics Chapter 21: Taxes, Social Insurance, and Income Distribution - 9.04
Economics 553: International Monetary Theory and Policy I - Fall.04
Krugman/Wells Economics Chapter 16: Monopolistic Competition and Product Differentiation - 9.04
http://www.pkarchive.org/theory/13.html

  
 Books On-line: Call Numbers Starting With HB
The Theory of Interest, As Determined by Impatience to Spend Income and Opportunity to Invest It (New York: Macmillan, 1930) by Irving Fisher (HTML at econlib.org)
The Methodology of Economic Model Building: Methodology After Samuelson
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
http://www.online-books.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/subjectstart?HB

  
 EDIRC: Economic and Game Theory
Kazan State Technical University, Kazan, Faculty of Management and Business, Department of Economic Theory
Rostov State Economical Academy, Rostov-Don, Institute of Finance, Department of Economic Theory
http://ideas.uqam.ca/EDIRC/ectheory.html

  
 Encyclopedia: Theory of Games and Economic Behavior
You might have to pay upto 25% in France.
In 1944 Princeton University Press published Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, a book by the mathematician John von Neumann and economist Oskar Morgenstern.
This is now a classic work, upon which modern-day game theory is based.
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Theory-of-Games-and-Economic-Behavior

  
 David Levine's Economic and Game Theory Page
The center also has an archive in which many of these papers are available to UCLA economics graduate students and faculty.
The Economic Theory Center (ETC) supports a variety of faculty and graduate student research.
You can also find information about the work of Armen A. Alchian, Jack Hirshleifer and other general interest material.
http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu

  
 Economic Theory News
Recent papers on the web of interest to economic theorists.
Giavazzi, Francesco and Guido Tabellini [2004-12-02]: "Economic and Political Liberalizations," Levine's Working Paper Archive - Offsite.
Oksanen, Ville and Mikko Valimaki [2004-09-16]: "Some Economic Aspects of the European Harmonization of Intellectual Property Rights in Software and its Impact to Eastern EU," Levine's Working Paper Archive.
http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/wjecon/wjecon.htm

  
 Other Sites: The Online Library of Liberty
It contains nearly 100 classic works of economic theory, an Encyclopedia of Economics with short articles on key concepts and biographies of major economists, and a weblog for discussing current economic issues.
Econlib is the sister website of OLL which specialises in the study of economics.
This is the main website for Liberty Fund, Inc. where you can find out more about Liberty Fund and its activities, order books from the online book catalog, and find out about forthcoming books.
http://oll.libertyfund.org/Home/OtherSites.html

  
 The Review of Economics and Statistics - The MIT Press
An 86-year-old general journal of applied (especially quantitative) economics, edited at Harvard University's Department of Economics.
On the Economic Success of GATT/WTO Dispute Settlement
The Review of Economics and Statistics - The MIT Press
http://mitpress.mit.edu/journal-home.tcl?issn=00346535

  
 Sergiu Hart - Game Theory, Economic Theory, Rationality
For a truckload of Jokes about Economists and Economics, go to
1999: Charter Member of the Game Theory Society
1991-1999: Founding Director, Center for Rationality and Interactive Decision Theory, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
http://www.ma.huji.ac.il/~hart/

  
 Journal of Economic Theory
Among these journals, the Journal of Economic Theory ranks fourth in impact-adjusted citations.
The Journal of Economic Theory publishes original articles in all fields of economic theory.
JET is the leading journal in economic theory.
http://www.nyu.edu/jet

  
 McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought
McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought
http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3

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