This book aims to discern and distinguish the essential features of basic economic theories and compare them with new theories that have arisen in recent years.

This book aims to explain briefly the essential features of the founding theories of economics, and compare them with later theories developed to address inconsistencies in outcomes. The earlier stages of this book are focused on the economic ideas and theories developed mainly between the 1930s and 1950s, because their emergence bred what were effectively new branches of economics. Over time, these economic theories have been gradually updated, but this updating has not necessarily addressed their theoretical difficulties. Roughly speaking, the updates converged towards behavioral science without eliminating the essential problems behind the theories. The idea of bounded rationality was a typical concern of these revisions. With universal rationality, then the core of the theory remained. The ideas of systems science were therefore increasingly less associated with this revisionist economic theory. However, even as these updates were being proposed, the world was dramatically changing. To use my favorite phrase, a car is no longer a car, but an adaptive cruising system, an air fighter is no longer an air fighter in the sense that stability is no longer part of its structural design. The control of modern vehicles is becoming further removed from human input. This also applies to the market. The revisionist approach therefore does not fully describe the essential transformations emerging in the world.

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Briefing on the evolving doctrines of economic theory of the last two centuries Investigation of the change in meanings of the economy and the market and the associated theories Integrative analysis of the evolution of economic theories and the history of social systems
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Product details

ISBN
9784431562122
Published
2016-08-23
Publisher
Springer Verlag, Japan
Height
235 mm
Width
155 mm
Age
Graduate, P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
17

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