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The Graz Schumpeter Lectures


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The Graz Schumpeter Lectures are designed to inform the scientific community about advances in particularly dynamic fields of research. The lectures focus on new and promising lines of research in the social sciences, novel methods of analysis and the use that can be made of analytical findings to improve economic and social policy.

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Freedom and Adaptive Preferences

Freedom and Adaptive Preferences

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Carl Christian von Weizsäcker
June 27, 2024

Traditional welfare economics works with the assumption of the fully rational economic agent (homo economicus) whose preferences are fixed: that is, they are not influenced by their economic environment. To the contrary, this book presents a theory of welfare economics that maintains the principles...

Ricardo's Theory of Growth and Accumulation A Modern View

Ricardo's Theory of Growth and Accumulation: A Modern View

1st Edition

By Neri Salvadori
April 29, 2022

In the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars Britain found itself faced with a stagnant economy. Economist David Ricardo believed that the full re-integration of Britain into the world market would allow for both capital accumulation and population growth, and used arguments that anticipate ideas ...

The Economics of the Good, the Bad and the Ugly Secrets, Desires, and Second-Mover Advantages

The Economics of the Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Secrets, Desires, and Second-Mover Advantages

1st Edition

By Manfred J. Holler
August 14, 2018

The highly praised Western, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, has been used in many game-theory courses over the years and has also found its way into leading journals of this field. Using the rich material offered by this movie, alongside other elements from popular culture, literature and history,...

Public Economics in an Age of Austerity

Public Economics in an Age of Austerity

1st Edition

By Tony Atkinson
June 28, 2018

Governments all round the world are facing problems with their public finances. At a time of austerity, how much should spending be cut and how much should taxes be raised? Does the national debt represent a burden for future generations? Should taxes on the rich be raised? This book examines how ...

Growth, Distribution and Innovations Understanding their Interrelations

Growth, Distribution and Innovations: Understanding their Interrelations

1st Edition

By Amit Bhaduri
April 27, 2016

Idea for those studying advanced macroeconomic and written by a widely published author, this book outlines a new and more fruitful way of understanding, analyzing and formally modelling economic growth. In his series of lectures, collected here in one concise and engaging book, Amit Bhaduri draws ...

Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism Schumpeter, Chandler, and the New Economy

Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism: Schumpeter, Chandler, and the New Economy

1st Edition

By Richard N. Langlois
June 19, 2014

Co-winner of the 2006 Schumpeter Prize of the International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society. This book explains the shift of the organizational landscape away from vertically integrated firms and towards more specialized entities connected by markets and networks. In doing so, it places in a larger ...

Politics and Economics in the History of the European Union

Politics and Economics in the History of the European Union

1st Edition

By Alan Milward
October 19, 2012

The Graz-Schumpeter annual lectures have grown in reputation over the years with impressive figures from academia such as Ian Steedman, J. Stanley Metcalfe and Duncan K. Foley contributing their own impressive series of lectures. The books produced as a result of these lectures are no less ...

Complex Economics Individual and Collective Rationality

Complex Economics: Individual and Collective Rationality

1st Edition

By Alan Kirman
February 18, 2011

The economic crisis is also a crisis for economic theory. Most analyses of the evolution of the crisis invoke three themes, contagion, networks and trust, yet none of these play a major role in standard macroeconomic models. What is needed is a theory in which these aspects are central. The direct ...

Unholy Trinity Labor, Capital and Land in the New Economy

Unholy Trinity: Labor, Capital and Land in the New Economy

1st Edition

By Duncan K. Foley
December 01, 2009

Many of the central results of Classical and Marxian political economy are examples of the self-organization of the capitalist economy as a complex, adaptive system far from equilibrium.An Unholy Trinity explores the relations between contemporary complex systems theory and classical political ...

Knowledge, Institutions and Evolution in Economics

Knowledge, Institutions and Evolution in Economics

1st Edition

By Brian Loasby
July 19, 2002

Winner of the Schumpeter Prize, 2000 and Winner of the Smith Prize in Austrian Economics, 2000, this book explores how the limitations of human knowledge create both opportunities and problems in the modern economy. The growing field of evolutionary economics has developed as a result of the ...

Exchange Rates and International Finance Markets An Asset-Theoretic Perspective with Schumpeterian Perspective

Exchange Rates and International Finance Markets: An Asset-Theoretic Perspective with Schumpeterian Perspective

1st Edition

By Erich Streissler
May 03, 2002

This book poses the important question of whether exchange rates are ultimately tied down by economic fundamentals. In a unique approach the subject is analysed from an asset holder's perspective and Streissler takes the reader through an authoritative and wide-ranging study including:*Friedman's ...

Evolutionary Economics and Creative Destruction

Evolutionary Economics and Creative Destruction

1st Edition

Edited By J. Stanley Metcalfe
January 28, 1998

The central theme of this book is competition treated as an evolutionary process in which the focus is upon economic change and not economic equilibrium. This theme is explored by linking together differences in economic behaviour with the role of markets as co-ordinating institutions. In this ...

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