Economics With A Human Face

Author : Fr. John McNerney
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498229948
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wealth of Persons written by Fr. John McNerney and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-08-31 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century initiated a great debate not just about inequality but also regarding the failures found in the economic models used by theoreticians and practitioners alike. Wealth of Persons offers a totally different perspective that challenges the very terms of the debate. The Great Recession reveals a great existential rift at the core of certain economic reflections, thereby showing the real crisis of the crisis of economics. In the human sciences we have created a kind of "Tower of Babel" where we cannot understand each other any longer. The "breakdowns" occur equally on the personal, social, political, and economic levels. There is a need for an "about-face" in method to restore harmony among dissociated disciplines. Wealth of Persons offers a key to such a restoration, applying insights and analysis taken from different economic scholars, schools of thought, philosophical traditions, various disciplines, and charismatic entrepreneurs. Wealth of Persons aims at recapturing an adequate understanding of the acting human person in the economic drama, one that measures up to the reality. The investigation is a passport allowing entry into the land of economic knowledge, properly unfolding the anthropological meaning of the free economy.

Author : Wangba Senjam
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 : 9781639403653
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Economics with a Human Face: Envisioning a Better India Volume One written by Wangba Senjam and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers some distinctly original and practical solutions to major socio-economic problems confronting India today. In the first chapter, the author exposes the fault lines in the conventional concept of the poverty line and also presents an alternative to it. What follows in the next chapter is his massive hammer of a strategy, made of deep socio-economic insight, a real concern for the poor and a sense of socio-economic justice for all, to smash down the tall walls of the prison of poverty, in which millions of Indian households are languishing for their 'unpardonable crime' of having no practical means to beat it on their own. Then he goes on to highlight and address the inability of the State to exploit the massive economic potential of the prison population, the global phenomenon of gold accumulation and aggrandizement and the extravagant practices of Hinduism in chapters three, four and five, respectively. In the last chapter, he offers a distinctly ingenious digital framework for preventing speeding-driven road accidents and, therefore, significantly reducing the heavy economic cost of road accidents in India.

Author : Richard Bradley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107003210
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Decision Theory with a Human Face written by Richard Bradley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how decision-makers can manage uncertainty that varies in both kind and severity by extending and supplementing Bayesian decision theory.

Author : Friedl Weiss
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789041110015
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Economic Law With a Human Face written by Friedl Weiss and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 1998-05-07 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 3. The Tobin tax.

Author : Wangba Senjam
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 : 1639403663
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Economics With a Human Face written by Wangba Senjam and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2021-07-11 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers distinctly original and practical solutions to some major socio-economic problems confronting India today. In the first chapter, the author highlights the traditional fault lines in the conventional concept of the poverty line and also presents an alternative to it. What follows in the next chapter is his massive sledgehammer of a strategy, made of deep socio-economic insight, a real concern for the poor and a sense of socio-economic justice for all, to smash down the tall walls of the prison of poverty, in which millions of Indian households continue to languish for their ‘unpardonable crime’ of having no practical means to come out of it on their own. Then he goes on to highlight and address the inability of the State to exploit the massive economic potential embodied in the massive prison population of the country, the global phenomenon of gold accumulation and aggrandizement and the extravagant practices of Hinduism in chapters three, four and five, respectively. In the last chapter, which has also been reviewed by TOCIC, IIT Kharagpur and revised accordingly, he offers a distinctly ingenious digital framework for serving as a watertight deterrent against speeding and, therefore, significantly reducing the incidence of speeding-driven accidents and, by extension, the massive loss of lives and economic resources resulting therefrom.

Author : Robert J. Shiller
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691212074
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narrative Economics written by Robert J. Shiller and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Nobel Prize–winning economist and New York Times bestselling author Robert Shiller, a groundbreaking account of how stories help drive economic events—and why financial panics can spread like epidemic viruses Stories people tell—about financial confidence or panic, housing booms, or Bitcoin—can go viral and powerfully affect economies, but such narratives have traditionally been ignored in economics and finance because they seem anecdotal and unscientific. In this groundbreaking book, Robert Shiller explains why we ignore these stories at our peril—and how we can begin to take them seriously. Using a rich array of examples and data, Shiller argues that studying popular stories that influence individual and collective economic behavior—what he calls "narrative economics"—may vastly improve our ability to predict, prepare for, and lessen the damage of financial crises and other major economic events. The result is nothing less than a new way to think about the economy, economic change, and economics. In a new preface, Shiller reflects on some of the challenges facing narrative economics, discusses the connection between disease epidemics and economic epidemics, and suggests why epidemiology may hold lessons for fighting economic contagions.

Author : Gary B. Magee
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811906645
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Socialism with a Human Face written by Gary B. Magee and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: East Germany’s economic history is typically told as a story of the unravelling of an inherently flawed system. Yet, while the system’s inefficiency is undeniable, its economic history was much richer than its comparatively poor economic performance suggests. For many who lived there, it was a system that, over its forty years, was capable of achievements and generally functioned at bearable levels. This book combines the insights of behavioural economics with archival research to peel away layers of rhetoric and assumptions about the East German economy and explore aspects of that underlying functionality. Through a series of cases studies that examine the establishment of socialist workplaces, the searches for productivity growth and efficiency, and the emergence of financial crisis, the book considers the system from the perspective of the humans who operated it and made the decisions that made it work. Unencumbered by political preconceptions, it offers a more realistic understanding of East German economic history than that derived from stagnant debates about the clash of systems. The new perspectives and approaches presented demonstrate that, extracted from its Cold War context, East Germany’s economic history can be analysed for what it was, rather than for what it symbolised.

Author : Samuel Brittan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780006863670
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capitalism with a Human Face written by Samuel Brittan and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Samuel Brittan, the doyen of British economic journalists, explores the connections between economics, ethics, and politics while assessing the merits and defects of capitalism in this post-socialist era.

Author : Richard H. Thaler
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393246779
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics written by Richard H. Thaler and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics Get ready to change the way you think about economics. Nobel laureate Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central agents in the economy are humans—predictable, error-prone individuals. Misbehaving is his arresting, frequently hilarious account of the struggle to bring an academic discipline back down to earth—and change the way we think about economics, ourselves, and our world. Traditional economics assumes rational actors. Early in his research, Thaler realized these Spock-like automatons were nothing like real people. Whether buying a clock radio, selling basketball tickets, or applying for a mortgage, we all succumb to biases and make decisions that deviate from the standards of rationality assumed by economists. In other words, we misbehave. More importantly, our misbehavior has serious consequences. Dismissed at first by economists as an amusing sideshow, the study of human miscalculations and their effects on markets now drives efforts to make better decisions in our lives, our businesses, and our governments. Coupling recent discoveries in human psychology with a practical understanding of incentives and market behavior, Thaler enlightens readers about how to make smarter decisions in an increasingly mystifying world. He reveals how behavioral economic analysis opens up new ways to look at everything from household finance to assigning faculty offices in a new building, to TV game shows, the NFL draft, and businesses like Uber. Laced with antic stories of Thaler’s spirited battles with the bastions of traditional economic thinking, Misbehaving is a singular look into profound human foibles. When economics meets psychology, the implications for individuals, managers, and policy makers are both profound and entertaining. Shortlisted for the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award

Author : UNICEF
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Development with a Human Face written by UNICEF and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: