The legacy of Thorstein Veblen

The thoughtful anthology on studies of Veblen is most timely in an era when profits no longer have much to do with productivity and conspicuous than ever. America's greatest social scientist dealt with emotions that continue to plague us - competitive revilry, desire, envy, emulation.

Currency crises

a theoretical and empirical perspective

This volume asserts that models concerning the outbreak and the propagation of currency crises share many similarities and may therefore be studied together. Theoretical developments in the currency crises literature lead to three distinct types of models. The authors focus on these first, second and ...

Handbook of international banking

The Handbook of International Banking provides a clearly accessible source of reference material, covering the main developments that reveal how the internationalization and globalization of banking have developed over recent decades to the present, and analyses the creation of a new global financial architecture. The ...

The Elgar companion to post Keynesian economics

In this definitive volume, over 80 distinguished contributors from four continents provide authoritative critical discussion of the principal areas of controversy in post Keynesian economics, including all significant issues in methodology, economic theory, applied economics and policy.

Urban and regional prosperity in a globalised new economy

There is currently a popular view that the world is undergoing profound changes in the fundamental relationships upon which it is organised. In particular, there is widespread talk of a #globalised# economy, facilitated by and associated with #new# technologies and practices. There is a further ...

The nature of economic growth

an alternative framework for understanding the performance of nations

This concise book, by one of the leading scholars in development economics, has been developed from a series of lectures given to masters students and will serve as an excellent introduction to the principles of growth and development theory. The author presents conventional wisdom with ...

Advanced macroeconomics

a primer

Since the rational expectations revolution in macroeconomics, the subject has changed massively, adopting the principles behind the revolution and building on them in a spectacular way. In this accessible and informative book, the authors guide the student through what has become the conceptual and mathematical ...

Variants in economic theory

Selected Works of Hal R.Varian

THal Varian, in the course of a long and distinguished career, has made a seminal contribution to many branches of economics. His path-breaking work on the development of economic theory, finance, industrial organization and econometrics is represented in this important new collection of key articles ...