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An evolutionary theory of economic change

, 1983
This study develops an evolutionary theory of the capabilities and behavior of business firms operating in a market environment. It includes both general discussion and the manipulation of specific simulation models consistent with that theory.
S. Winter, R. Nelson
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Economic history and economic theory

Journal of Economic Methodology, 2006
Since the mid‐1950s the spread of formal models and econometric method has greatly improved the study of the past, giving rise to the ‘new’ economic history; at the same time, the influence of economic history on economists and economics has markedly declined.
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Theory of Games and Economic Behavior

, 2006
The nature of the problems investigated and the techniques employed in this book necessitate a procedure which in many instances is thoroughly mathematical.
Robert Leonard
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Theory of games and economic behavior

100 Years of Math Milestones, 1945
This is the classic work upon which modern-day game theory is based. What began more than sixty years ago as a modest proposal that a mathematician and an economist write a short paper together blossomed, in 1944, when Princeton University Press ...
W. E. Deming, John von Neumann, Oscar Morgenstern   +2 more
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The Theory of Social and Economic Organization

, 1948
A synthetic polyisoprene rubber latex produced by emulsifying a solution of polyisoprene rubber in an organic solvent with water and removing the solvent from the resulting oil-in-water emulsion is significantly improved with respect to mechanical ...
P. Weintraub, M. Weber, A. Henderson, T. Parsons, H. Gerth, C. Mills   +5 more
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The theory of the leisure class: an economic study of institutions

Annals of Leisure Research, 2020
As a holistic approach to economic theory, Thorstein Veblen’s The Theory of the Leisure Class was one of the most thorough.
Gabriel Knott-Fayle
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Corporate culture and economic theory

, 1990
INTRODUCTION In this chapter, I explore how an economic theorist might explain or model a concept such as corporate culture. While the theoretical construction that is given is far from inclusive (which is to say that many aspects of corporate culture ...
David M. Kreps
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An Economic Theory of Suicide

Journal of Political Economy, 1974
Although sociologists have developed and tested numerous theories about suicide, economists have not analyzed this phenomenon. We derive an economic theory of suicide and test its implications using: (1) data by age in many developed countries; (2) a time series, 1947-67, by age group in the United States; (3) a cross section by state and age group in ...
Hamermesh, Daniel S, Soss, Neal M
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Economic theory

, 2017
The subject matter of economics is the study of how individuals, firms and governments make choices. The overall purpose is to guide society in relation to the effective allocation of scarce means of production toward the satisfaction of human wants.
Alex Conison
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The 'New' Economic Theories [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008
This paper has two main goals. The first is to study the links between the “new” economic theories, this is, the “new” trade theory, the “new” growth theory and the “new” economic geography. These are three apparently distinct strands of economics, yet they have a common motivation: the role of increasing returns and the consequent market structure ...
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