Notebooks

Economics

30 Dec 2007 10:46

I have always felt a certain horror of political economists, since I heard one of them say that he feared the famine of 1848 in Ireland would not kill more than a million people, and that would scarcely be enough to do much good.
---Attrib. to Benjamin Jowett

History of markets. QWERTY. Other parts of evolutionary economics. Arrow-Debreu model of general equilibrium. Market failure. Input-output models. Planning and regulation, esp. during the World Wars. Economic policy of US, Europe, East Asia, 3rd World. Development economics, growth theory. Corporations. Finance. Claims of analogies between physics and conventional economics (whether with laudatory or debunking intent) --- not to be confused with applying methods of theoretical physics to economic questions ("econophysics"). Agent-based modeling.

See also decision theory; historical materialism; information economy; institutional economics; socialism, market socialism

  • Keynes
    • Essays in Biography
    • Treatise on Money
  • Charles Kindleberger, Historical Economics: Art or Science? [online]
  • Janos Kornai, Anti-Equilibrium
  • Hugo A. Keuzenkamp, Probability, Econometrics and Truth: The Methodology of Econometrics [blurb]
  • Roberto Leombruni and Matteo Richiardi, "Why are economists sceptical about agent-based simulations?", Physica A 355 (2005): 103--109 ["We look at the following problematic areas: (i) interpretation of the simulation dynamics and generalization of the results, and (ii) estimation of the simulation model. We show that there exist solutions for both these issues."]
  • Michael Margill and Martine Quinzii, Theopry of Incomplete Markets [Blurb]
  • James G. March, A Primer on Decision Making: How Decisions Happen
  • Bhashkar Mazumder, "Fortunate Sons: New Estimates of Intergenerational Mobility in the United States Using Social Security Earnings Data", The Review of Economics and Statistics 87 (2005): 235--255
  • Thomas K. McCraw, Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction
  • John McMillan, Reinventing the Bazaar: The Natural History of Markets
  • Diana A. Mendes, Vivaldo M. Mendes, J. Sousa Ramos, "Symbolic Dynamics in a Matching Labour Market Model",nlin.CD/0608002
  • Pierre-Michel Menger, "Artistic Labor Markets and Careers", Annual Review of Sociology 25 (1999): 541--574
  • Franco Modigliani, Adventures of an Economist
  • Barrington Moore, Moral Aspects of Economic Growth, and Other Essays
  • Mary S. Morgan, The History of Econometric Ideas [blurb]
  • Gustavus Myers, Hereditary American Fortunes
  • Jean-Pierre Nadal, Denis Phan, Mirta B. Gordon and Jean Vannimenus, "Monopoly Market with Externality: An Analysis with Statistical Physics and Agent Based Computational Economics," cond-mat/0311096
  • Edward J. Nell, Making Sense of a Changing Economy: Technology, Markets and Morals
  • Leland Gerson Neuberg, Conceptual Anomalies in Economics and Statistics: Lessons from the Social Experiment [blurb]
  • Kiyohiko G. Nishimura, Imperfect Competition, Differential Information, and Microfoundations of Macroeconomics [Blurb]
  • Haim Ofek, Second Nature: Economic Origins of Human Evolution [blurb]
  • Paul Osterman, Securing Prosperity: The American Labor Market: How It Has Changed and What to Do about It
  • Muge Ozman, "Interactions in economic models: Statistical mechanics and networks", Mind and Society 4 (2005): 223--238
  • Charles Perrow, Organizing America: Wealth, Power, and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism
  • Joel M. Podolny, Status Signals: A Sociological Study of Market Competition
  • Adam Przeworski, States and Markets: A Primer in Political Economy
  • Don Ross, Economic Theory and Cognitive Science: Microexplanation [Blurb]
  • Alvin E. Roth, "Repugnance as a Constraint on Markets", Journal of Economic Perspectives forthcoming (2007) [PDF preprint. Thanks to reader Nicolas D. P. for pointing this out to me.]
  • Emma Rothschild, Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet, and the Enlightenment
  • Larry Samuelson [No relation of Paul], Evolutionary Games and Equilibrium Selection
  • Paul Samuelson, Foundations of Economic Analysis
  • Saskia Sassen, The Global City
  • Margaret Schabas, The Natural Origins of Economics [That is, the debt of economic thought, in its formative period, to ideas about the natural world. Blurb]
  • J. Schumpeter, History of Economic Analysis
  • Barry Schwartz, The Paradox of Choice
  • Paul Seabright, The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life
  • Robert Solow
    • An Almost Practical Step Towards Sustainability
    • Monopolistic Competition and Macroeconomic Theory
  • Adam Smith
  • Joe Stiglitz
  • Susan Strange, Casino Capitalism
  • John Sutton, Sunk Costs and Market Structure: Price Competition, Advertising, and the Evolution of Concentration
  • Leigh Tesfatsion and Kenneth L. Judd (eds.), Agent-Based Computational Economics, vol. 2 of the Handbook of Computational Economics
  • Richard Thaler, Quasi-Rational Economics
  • Hal Varian, Microeconomic Analysis [The standard reference for lo, these many years; need to actually read it...]
  • Geerat J. Vermeij, Nature: An Economic History [Review in American Scientist]
  • Dejan Vinkovic and Alan Kirman, "A Physical Analogue of the Schelling Model", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103 (2006): 19261--19265
  • Steven Vogel, Freer Markets, More Rules: Regulatory Reform in Advanced Economies
  • Kathleen D. Vohs, Nicole L. Mead, and Miranda R. Goode, "The Psychological Consequences of Money", Science 314 (2006): 1154--1156
  • Joel Waldfogel, The Tyranny of the Market: Why You Can't Always Get What You Want [Blurb]
  • J. D. Williams, The Compleat Strategyst


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