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Technology, Innovation and Competitiveness
Edited by Jeremy Howells, Jonathan Michie
Technology and innovation are fundamental to economic success and the struggle for markets in an increasingly competitive world. This book draws together the latest research in the fields of technology, innovation and competitiveness fro... -
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Frontiers in Ecological Economics
Robert Costanza
Frontiers in Ecological Economics presents some of Robert Costanza''s most important work on understanding ecological and economic systems. A signal contribution of Costanza''s work is that he transcends disciplinary boundaries by colla... -
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Economics and Evolution
Edited by Jan Reijnders
Economics and Evolution presents an overview of the principal characteristics of the modern evolutionary approach and offers insights into the ideas of some of its important representatives and fields of application. -
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Economic Development and Agricultural Productivity
Edited by Amit Bhaduri, Rune Skarstein
This important book challenges conventional development theory by addressing not only technological but also socio-economic factors influencing low agricultural productivity in the developing world. -
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Money and General Equilibrium Theory
Pascal Bridel
This important book offers a detailed and analytical reconstruction of the pioneering attempts of Walras and Pareto to coordinate money and general equilibrium theory. It argues that the very logic of the original static general equilib... -
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Great Political Thinkers
Edited by John Dunn, Ian Harris
This important series presents critical appraisals of great political thinkers from the Greeks to present day. It focuses in particular on those thinkers who are generally recognized as being central to the evolution and development of ... -
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Plato
Edited by John Dunn, Ian Harris
Plato of Athens (c 429–347 BC) is the earliest European thinker whose thoughts on politics survive to any great extent. His work, contained in The Republic, the Statesman, the Laws and the unfinished Critias, amongst other works, has ma... -
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Aristotle
Edited by John Dunn, Ian Harris
Aristotle (384–322 BC) was born in Northern Greece. He moved to Athens where he associated himself with Plato’s academy. He later became tutor to the young Alexander the Great at the Macedonian court but returned to Athens in 335 to fo... -
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Augustine
Edited by John Dunn, Ian Harris
Born in what is now Algeria, Augustine trained in classical Latin rhetoric and became a professor of rhetoric in Rome. He later studied neo-Platonic philosophy and experienced a conversion to Christianity in 386. -
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Aquinas
Edited by John Dunn, Ian Harris
Thomas Aquinas (1224–74) was born in Naples of a powerful Italian family. He took part in the major philosophical and theological controversies of his day and fought the decisive battle which re-admitted the study of the works of Aristo... -
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Machiavelli
Edited by John Dunn, Ian Harris
The work of Niccolo Machiavelli (1469–1527) has a variety of meanings for different interpreters. Some attribute to him a new ''scientific method'' of drawing conclusions from practical or historical experience in order to form rules fo... -
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Edited by John Dunn, Ian Harris
Thomas More (1478–1535), English statesman, author and saint, was a lawyer, politician and diplomat, a leading member of the Renaissance of northern Europe and a defender of the Roman Catholic faith. In the history of political thought ...