Microeconomia - Teoria e applicazioni con il calcolo differenziale

J. H. Goldthorpe
Società editrice il Mulino

Beniamino Moro, Gianfranco Sabattini
FrancoAngeli

Charles P. Kindleberger
Cambridge University Press

This book is essentially an exercise in methodology, addressed to economists and economic historians alike. Too many economists discover a relationship or a uniformity in economic behavior, develop a model, and use it to explain more than it is capable of, including on occasion all economic behavior. In Economic Laws and Economic History Charles Kindleberger makes a powerful case against the idea that any one model or law could be used to unlock the basic secrets of economic history.

Pierangelo Maria Toninelli
Marsilio editore

Con questo volume si vogliono collocare le grandi trasformazioni economiche e sociali, dalla rivoluzione industriale inglese del Settecento ai nostri anni Settanta, in una nuova prospettiva storica. Vengono illustrate le varie tematiche: progresso, crescita, tecnologia, mercati e commerci, agricoltura e industrilizzazione, monete, banche, sistemi finanziari, imprese, lavoro e temi nuovi come energia, sviluppo, ambiente. Un nuovo modo di interpretare la storia economica attraverso l'approccio metodologico (più problemi che fatti economici), il quadro concettuale, l'analisi delle questioni più rilevanti senza arbitrarie periodizzazioni generali.

Luciano Boggio, Gilberto Seravalli
Società editrice il Mulino

In un clima di accresciuta sensibilità dell'opinione pubblica, in particolare giovanile, su temi quali le disuguaglianze economiche internazionali, la povertà, la globalizzazione, i temi dello sviluppo hanno trovato rinnovata attenzione da parte degli economisti. Questo testo presenta una selezione di fatti, utili a illustrare i problemi, le teorie economiche che nascono per interpretarli e le conseguenti scelte di politica economica operate per risolverli. Gli autori hanno scelto un'esposizione concettualmente semplice e hanno mantenuto un livello elementare nelle formalizzazioni matematiche per rivolgersi agli studenti universitari dei corsi di laurea triennali nelle facoltà di Economia e Scienze Politiche.

Oscar Nuccio
Edizioni Gallizzi

Franco Volpi, Fiamma B. Mersi
FrancoAngeli

Mariella Giura Longo
FrancoAngeli

Le riforme economiche attuate in Cina a partire dal 1978 devono il loro successo in primo luogo al fatto che sono partite dal basso, anziché venire imposte dal governo, ed in secondo luogo allo spirito imprenditoriale e commerciale delle famiglie contadine cinesi, che si è conservato nonostante vent'anni di regime maoista. Sono questi gli argomenti centrali del volume, che ripercorre, con una ricca documentazione, le vicende della società cinese dalla fine della guerra dell'oppio ad oggi.

Richard Stone
Cambridge University Press

These lectures focus on twelve pioneers of economic, demographic and social statistics ranging from the seventeenth century to the end of the nineteenth century. The first lecture discusses the work of the political arithmeticians including William Petty, Founding Fellow of the Royal Society. The second lecture considers three steps in the development of quantitative economics in the form of Bishop Fleetwood, Arthur Young and Patrick Colquhoun. In the third lecture Stone turns to demography, and to John Graunt, Edmond Halley and William Farr. The fourth lecture deals with social statistics in the persons of Frederick Morton Eden, Florence Nightingale and Charles Booth.

Paul Patrick Streeten
Cambridge University Press

In these lectures Paul Streeten provides a major statement on his approach to the development problem. The principal theme of the lectures is that human development, not simply income growth, should be the focus of all strategies to eradicate hunger and poverty in the world. His argument allots an important role to reformed government, both in providing social services and in facilitating the functioning of markets, in opposition to the prevailing view that minimal government is more often than not the optimal solution. He also outlines a normative political economy--how to mobilize reformist alliances, how to use interest groups, how to harness coalitions--in the pursuit of effective development.

Shigeto Tsuru
Cambridge University Press

In these lectures Shigeto Tsuru reappraises institutionalism as a school of thought and discusses its relevance for the issues that face the economics profession today. He begins with a historical perspective by reconsidering Marx as an "institutionalist," which provides a context for a discussion on Keynes, Schumpeter and Veblen. This is followed by an examination of modern institutionalism through the work of Gunnar Myrdal, J. K. Galbraith and William Kapp. He concludes with an evaluation of the future of the institutionalist approach.

Franco Modigliani
Cambridge University Press

This 1986 book examines some of the main issues that have characterized macroeconomics: the debate between 'monetarists' and 'Keynesians'; the response to demand shocks and supply shocks, by which the monetary authorities control aggregrate nominal income and the use and relevance of the money supply as a target; and the consumption function and the determinants of wealth. It shows that Keynesian stabilization policies succeeded in reducing instability due to demand shocks dramatically, but that no aggregrate demand policy can stabilize both price and employment simultaneously after a supply shock. However, by assigning an overall 'social cost' to (excess) unemployment and (initially) unexpected inflation, an optimism path can be derived. In looking at the consumption function and determinants of wealth the empirical evidence is shown to be most consistent with the life-cycle hypothesis. A concluding section is devoted to the impact on private and national society of the 'social security revolution'.