| Description |
1 online resource (271 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge INEM Advances in Economic Methodology |
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Routledge INEM advances in economic methodology.
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| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Unintended consequences; 3 The origin of money; 4 Segregation; 5 The invisible hand; 6 The origin of money reconsidered; 7 Models and representation; 8 Game theory and conventions; 9 Concluding remarks; Appendix I: Smith, Jevons and Mises on money; Appendix II: Models of emergence of money; Appendix III: Explorations of the chequerboard world; Appendix IV: Focal points and risk dominance; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Addressing the controversial concept of the invisible hand, this book questions, examines and explicates the strengths and weaknesses of the concept by analyzing its paradigmatic examples such as Carl Menger?s Origin of Money and Thomas Schelling?s famous checkerboard model of residential segregation |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203930946 |
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0203930940 |
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1281197335 |
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9781281197337 |
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