Edited by James M. Enelow, Melvin J. Hinich, Preface by Kenneth Arrow

George A. Akerlof

Economic theory has traditionally relied upon a tacit and ‘classical’ set of assumptions that have gradually acquired a life of ...

Essays in Experimental Economics

Vernon L. Smith

This second Cambridge University Press collection of papers by Vernon L. Smith, a creator of the field of experimental economics, ...

Leonid Hurwicz, Stanley Reiter

This book presents methods for designing institutions that direct and coordinate economic activity so as to achieve specified goals. These ...

Tools to Raise Low-end Pay and Employment in Private Enterprise

Edited by Edmund S. Phelps

An inclusion failure has become highly visible in the advanced economies of the West. Too many able-bodied people are still ...

Selected Essays

Simon Kuznets

This is a collection of essays by Simon Kuznets, winner of the 1971 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, dealing ...

Edited by George A. Akerlof, Janet L. Yellen

Edited by Lee J. Alston, Thrainn Eggertsson, Douglass C. North

Empirical Studies in Institutional Change is a collection of nine empirical studies by fourteen scholars. Dealing with issues ranging from ...

Collected Papers of Clive W. J. Granger

Clive W. J. Granger, Edited by Eric Ghysels, Norman R. Swanson, Mark W. Watson

This book, and its companion volume in the Econometric Society Monographs series (ESM number 32), present a collection of papers ...

How Far, How Fast?

Edited by Gerard Caprio, Patrick Honohan, Joseph E. Stiglitz

This volume addresses one of the most topical and controversial issues in banking and financial policy. It explains why governments ...

James Edward Meade, Foreword by Robert M. Solow

Full employment has once again become a central topic in the political debate. This short book by James Meade asks ...

'Rational Expectations' Examined

Edited by Roman Frydman, Edmund S. Phelps

Growing out of a conference on Expectations Formation and Economic Disequilibrium held in New York City in 1981, the papers ...

L. E. Davis, Douglass C. North

Douglass C. North

Continuing his groundbreaking analysis of economic structures, Douglass North develops an analytical framework for explaining the ways in which institutions ...

Twenty Papers of Gerard Debreu

Gerard Debreu, Introduction by Werner Hildenbrand

These twenty papers were selected by the author. The book includes a major introduction by Werner Hildenbrand, who assesses Professor ...

Robert M. Solow

Robert Solow is widely regarded as one of the greatest living economists. He has conducted path-breaking work in both microeconomics ...

Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and one of the foremost living African writers, here analyses the ...

Vernon L. Smith

Professor Vernon L. Smith is a major creator of the new discipline of experimental economics. This collection of his papers ...

Towards Nondiscriminatory Democracy

James M. Buchanan, Roger D. Congleton

In his treatise The Constitution of Liberty (1960), F. A. Hayek emphasized the central role of the generality principle, as ...

Selected Papers of Hirofumi Uzawa

Hirofumi Uzawa, Foreword by Kenneth J. Arrow

This volume contains a selection of Professor Uzawa's important contributions to mathematical economics. Subjects covered by these nineteen essays include ...

The Collected Essays of Robert J. Gordon

Robert J. Gordon, Foreword by Robert M. Solow

The 17 seminal essays by Robert J. Gordon collected here, including three previously unpublished works, offer sharply etched views on ...

Selected Papers by William Vickrey

William Vickrey, Edited by Richard Arnott, Anthony B. Atkinson, Kenneth Arrow, Jacques H. Drèze

The late William Vickrey was one of the truly important figures in contemporary economics. Over the past 55 years he ...

Constructivist and Ecological Forms

Vernon L. Smith

The principal findings of experimental economics are that impersonal exchange in markets converges in repeated interaction to the equilibrium states ...

Franco Modigliani, Arun Muralidhar

A unique presentation of both academic and practical aspects of managing pension funds to clarify the global debate on social ...

Essays in Memory of Elisha Pazner

Edited by Leonid Hurwicz, David Schmeidler, Hugo Sonnenschein

Published as a tribute to the memory of Elisha Pazner, this book contains a collection of essays providing a comprehensive ...

Richard Stone

This book describes the development of economic, demographic and social statistics in the British Isles from the mid seventeenth century ...

Edited by Kenneth J. Arrow, Leonid Hurwicz

One of the central questions of economics relates to the coordination of individual units within a large organization to achieve ...

Robert W. Fogel

Health, Nutrition and Human Development in the Western World since 1700

Robert William Fogel, Roderick Floud, Bernard Harris

Edited by Arjo Klamer, Donald N. McCloskey, Robert M. Solow

The field of economics proves to be a matter of metaphor and storytelling - its mathematics is metaphoric and its ...

Lykke E. Andersen, Clive W. J. Granger, Eustaquio J. Reis, Diana Weinhold, Sven Wunder

Presenting an economic perspective of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, the authors make use of a uniquely rich set of ...

Theory, Evidence, and Implications for Policy

Edited by Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel, Luis Servén, Foreword by Joseph Stiglitz

Saving rates display great variation across countries and over time. They are also closely related to growth performance. This volume ...

Europe, America, and the Third World

Robert William Fogel

Nobel laureate Robert Fogel’s compelling new study examines health, nutrition and technology over the last three centuries and beyond. Chronic ...

Analytic Foundations of a Fiscal Constitution

Geoffrey Brennan, James M. Buchanan

Should government’s power to tax be limited? The events of the late 1970s in the wake of California’s Proposition 13 ...

A New Economic History

Douglass C. North, Robert Paul Thomas

A radically new interpretation, offering a unified explanation for the growth of Western Europe between 900 A. D. and 1700, ...

Performance and Culture on the World Stage

Edited by Richard Boon, Jane Plastow, Foreword by Wole Soyinka

Theatre, in a variety of forms and contexts, can make, and indeed has made, positive political and social interventions in ...

The Commercial Transformation of the Nonprofit Sector

Edited by Burton A. Weisbrod, Foreword by Kenneth J. Arrow

Nonprofit organizations are changing dramatically in the ways they are financed. As donations decline in importance and user fees and ...

Joseph Stiglitz, Bruce Greenwald

Written out of the authors’ original thoughts and empirical observations while serving in some renowned economic organizations. It provides a ...

Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

IPCC

This IPCC Special Report describes sources, capture, transport, and storage of CO2. It discusses the costs, economic potential, and societal ...

Working Group II contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

The Climate Change 2007 volumes of the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC provide the most comprehensive and balanced assessment ...

Working Group III contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

The Climate Change 2007 volumes of the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC provide the most comprehensive and balanced assessment ...

Working Group I Contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Climate Change 2007 - The Physical Science Basis is the latest, most comprehensive scientific assessment of past, present and future ...

The Path to Feynman Diagrams

Martinus Veltman

This book provides an easily accessible introduction to quantum field theory via Feynman rules and calculations in particle physics. The ...

The 1986 Dirac Memorial Lectures

Richard P. Feynman, Steven Weinberg

Perhaps the two most important conceptual breakthroughs in twentieth century physics are relativity and quantum mechanics. Developing a theory that ...

Derek H. R. Barton, Shyamal I. Parekh

This book describes the experience over 25 years of the senior author with the chemistry of organic free radicals. It ...

Gerard 't Hooft

This is a first-hand account of one of the most creative and exciting periods of discovery in the history of ...

How Rare Events Bring Atoms to Rest

François Bardou, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, Alain Aspect, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

Lévy statistics are now recognised as the proper tool for analysing various problems for which standard Gaussian statistics are inadequate. ...

Max F. Perutz

Reminiscences about a Great Physicist

Edited by Behram N. Kursunoglu, Eugene Paul Wigner

Electromagnetic Theory of Propagation, Interference and Diffraction of Light

Max Born, Emil Wolf, With contributions by A. B. Bhatia, P. C. Clemmow, D. Gabor, A. R. Stokes, A. M. Taylor, P. A. Wayman, W. L. Wilcock

The 1994 Dirac Memorial Lecture

Pierre Gilles de Gennes, Introduction by Sam Edwards

This volume contains a much expanded version of the 1994 Dirac Memorial Lecture by Nobel Laureate Pierre Gilles de Gennes. ...

New Horizons for the Chemistry, Physics and Astrophysics of Carbon

Edited by H. W. Kroto, D. R. M. Walton

In 1985, Buckminsterfullerene (fullerene-60) C60 was discovered serendipitously during graphite laser vaporisation experiments designed to simulate the chemistry in a ...

The First 1988 Dirac Memorial Lecture

Abdus Salam, Foreword by John C. Taylor

Paul Adrian Maurice Dirac, one of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century, died in 1984. Dirac’s college, St John’s ...

Edited by Raymond Chiao, William Phillips, Anthony Leggett, Marvin Cohen, Charles Harper

With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches

Erwin Schrödinger, Foreword by Roger Penrose

Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger’s What is Life? is one of the great science classics of the twentieth century. A distinguished ...