Theory Of Economic Efficiency

Author : Jesús Huerta de Soto
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 041542769X
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Theory of Dynamic Efficiency written by Jesús Huerta de Soto and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2009 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gathers a collection of multidisciplinary essays by Jess Huerta de Soto, examining the dynamic processes of social cooperation which characterize the market, with particular emphasis on the role of both entrepreneurship and institutions.

Author : Klaus Mathis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402097980
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Efficiency Instead of Justice? written by Klaus Mathis and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-03-18 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic analysis of law is an interesting and challenging attempt to employ the concepts and reasoning methods of modern economic theory so as to gain a deeper understanding of legal problems. According to Richard A. Posner it is the role of the law to encourage market competition and, where the market fails because transaction costs are too high, to simulate the result of competitive markets. This would maximize economic efficiency and social wealth. In this work, the lawyer and economist Klaus Mathis critically appraises Posner’s normative justification of the efficiency paradigm from the perspective of the philosophy of law. Posner acknowledges the influences of Adam Smith and Jeremy Bentham, whom he views as the founders of normative economics. He subscribes to Smith’s faith in the market as an ideal allocation model, and to Bentham’s ethical consequentialism. Finally, aligning himself with John Rawls’s contract theory, he seeks to legitimize his concept of wealth maximization with a consensus theory approach. In his interdisciplinary study, the author points out the possibilities as well as the limits of economic analysis of law. It provides a method of analysing the law which, while very helpful, is also rather specific. The efficiency arguments therefore need to be incorporated into a process for resolving value conflicts. In a democracy this must take place within the political decision-making process. In this clearly written work, Klaus Mathis succeeds in making even non-economists more aware of the economic aspects of the law.

Author : Stephan H. Loh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780967366807
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The General Theory of Economic Efficiency written by Stephan H. Loh and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jens Beckert
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 140082544X
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Market written by Jens Beckert and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-10 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the Market launches a sociological investigation into economic efficiency. Prevailing economic theory, which explains efficiency using formalized rational choice models, often simplifies human behavior to the point of distortion. Jens Beckert finds such theory to be particularly weak in explaining such crucial forms of economic behavior as cooperation, innovation, and action under conditions of uncertainty--phenomena he identifies as the proper starting point for a sociology of economic action. Beckert levels an enlightened critique at neoclassical economics, arguing that understanding efficiency requires looking well beyond the market to the social, cultural, political, and cognitive factors that influence the coordination of economic action. Beckert searches social theory for the components of an alternative theory of action, one that accounts for the social embedding of economic behavior. In Durkheim and Parsons he finds especially useful approaches to cooperation; in Luhmann, a way to understand how people act under highly contingent conditions; and in Giddens, an understanding of creative action and innovation. Together, these provide building blocks for a research program that will yield a theoretically sophisticated understanding of how economic processes are coordinated and the ways that markets are embedded in social, cultural, and cognitive structures. Containing one of the most fully informed critiques of the neoclassical analysis of economic efficiency--as well as one of the most thoughtful blueprints for economic sociology--this book reclaims for sociology the study of one of the most important arenas of human action.

Author : Abba P.. Mélanges Lerner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theory of Economic Efficiency written by Abba P.. Mélanges Lerner and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard S. Markovits
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300145225
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Truth Or Economics written by Richard S. Markovits and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is economic efficiency a sound basis upon which to make public policy or legal decisions? In this sophisticated analysis, Richard S. Markovits considers the way in which scholars and public decision-makers define, predict, and assess the moral and legal relevance of economic efficiency. The author begins by identifying imperfections in the traditional definition of economic efficiency. He then develops and illustrates an appropriate response to Second-Best Theory and investigates the moral and legal relevance of economic-efficiency analyses. Not only do virtually all economic, legal, and public policy thinkers misdefine economic efficiency, the author concludes, they also ignore or respond inadequately to Second-Best Theory when analyzing the economic efficiency of public choices and misassess the relevance of economic-efficiency conclusions both for moral evaluations and for the answer to legal-rights questions that is correct as a matter of law.

Author : Richard O. Zerbe
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1843761483
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Economic Efficiency in Law and Economics written by Richard O. Zerbe and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic Efficiency in Law and Economics is an interesting and worthwhile book. Megan Richardson, Economic Record Zerbe s new book is high-powered and potentially important. Bill Goodman, Monthly Labor Review In this path-breaking book, Richard Zerbe introduces a new way to think about the concept of economic efficiency that is both consistent with its historical derivation and more useful than concepts currently used. He establishes an expanded version of Kaldor Hicks efficiency as an axiomatic system that performs the following tasks: the new approach obviates certain technical and ethical criticisms that have been made of economic efficiency; it answers critics of efficiency; it allows an expanded range for efficiency analysis; it establishes the conditions under which economists can reasonably say that some state of the world is inefficient. He then applies the new analysis to a number of hard and fascinating cases, including the economics of duelling, cannibalism and rape. He develops a new theory of common law efficiency and indicates the circumstances under which the common law will be inefficient. The book will be of great interest to scholars, students, and practitioners interested in the concept of economic efficiency and how it should be applied to law and economics.

Author : Harry I. Greenfield
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
ISBN 13 : 9780262572118
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theory for Economic Efficiency written by Harry I. Greenfield and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1979 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Samuelson once noted that "Abba Lerner has been a great theoretical economist in a vintage epoch for theorists. This last third of a century he has poured out one brilliant paper after another-in micro theory and macro, in pure thought, and in the realms of policy."Lerner's colleagues at Queens College have assembled these essays on issues of considerable importance in the world economy, particularly in areas of social welfare, as "a tribute to a great economist who has made significant and long-lasting contributions to many fields of economic theory and policy."

Author : Harry I. Greenfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theory of economic efficiency written by Harry I. Greenfield and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : E. J. Mishan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136629556
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Economic Efficiency and Social Welfare (Routledge Revivals) written by E. J. Mishan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1981, Professor Mishan’s Economic Efficiency and Social Welfare: Selected Essays on Fundamental Aspects of the Economic Theory of Social Welfare is a collection of 22 pioneering essays written while the author was teaching at the London School of Economics and chosen to indicate landmarks in the development of his own thought. Professor Mishan, who also enjoys an international reputation as a popular writer on the impact of modern economic growth on social welfare, is among the foremost authorities in the field of resource allocation, and his influence in his subject area has been profound. Mishan’s essays, while generally accessible to the layman due to the author’s lucidity, his economy in the use of mathematical notation and his concern with perspective, are invaluable reading for the economics undergraduate. The essays are particularly relevant to upper level students of project appraisal, welfare economics and cost benefit analysis requiring a coherent survey of their field of study.