The Invisible Hand offers a radical departure from the conventional wisdom of economists and economic historians, by showing that "factor markets" and the economies dominated by them - the market economies - are not modern, but have existed at various times in the past.

2016

Level: adelantado

The Invisible Hand?

B. J. P. van Bavel

Oxford University Press

The models of portfolio selection and asset price dynamics in this volume seek to explain the market dynamics of asset prices. Presenting a range of analytical, empirical, and numerical techniques as well as several different modeling approaches, the authors depict the state of debate on the market selection hypothesis.

2009

Level: adelantado

Handbook of Financial Markets

Thorsten Hens, Klaus Reiner Schenk-Hoppé

North Holland

Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought A new evolutionary explanation of markets and investor behaviorHalf of all Americans have money in the stock market yet economists can t agree on whether investors and markets are rational and efficient as modern financial theory assumes or irrational and inefficient as behavioral …

2017

Level: adelantado

Adaptive Markets

Andrew W. Lo

Princeton University Press

Noneconomists often think that economists' approach to race is almost exclusively one of laissez-faire. Racism, Liberalism, and Economics argues that economists' ideas are more complicated.

2009

Level: adelantado

Race, Liberalism, And Economics

Colander, David; Prasch, Robert E.; Shetz, Falguni A.

University of Michigan Press

Economic development is a process of continuous technological innovation and structural transformation. Development thinking is inherently tied to the quest for sustainable growth strategies. This book provides a neoclassical approach for studying the determinants of economic structure and its transformation and draws new insights for development policy.

2012

Level: adelantado

New Structural Economics

Justin Yifu Lin

World Bank Publications

The book deals with the financial instability hypothesis of Hyman P. Minsky and its application to current developments. The first part of the work summarizes the hypothesis and mentions works elaborating the hypothesis. The second part applies the hypothesis to the financial crisis 0f 2008/09.

2014

Level: adelantado

The Financial Instability Hypothesis of Hyman P. Minsky

Michal Paulus

LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing

In this classic work of economic history and social theory, Karl Polanyi analyzes the economic and social changes brought about by the "great transformation" of the Industrial Revolution.

2001

Level: adelantado

The Great Transformation

Karl Polanyi

Beacon Press