If you want to learn about an economic philosophy that refutes the
"Keynesian command economy" then you need to study the "Austrian
School" of economic theory. This anthology by Bettina Ben Greaves is a
good starting point to learn about the "Austrian" school. The "Austrian
" economic school turned the study of economics on its head when it
traced market prices to the actions of individual buyers instead of
producers. Carl Menger, the founder of this school wrote the
breakthrough theory the "classical economists" like Adam Smith missed.
"Market price doesn't rely on usefulness, value or supply but on the
usefulness the individual expects to derive from the item or the
service at a particular time or place, this theory is known as marginal
utility". Ludwig von Mises took the school further he rejected the
traditional study of economics by looking at historical models and
adopted the technique of studying "human action" and social science to
come up with a universal economic science. As a free market economists
the "Austrians" expertly explain how the system of profit and loss
works in a free economy and how wages rise due to an increase in
capital invested per worker, which causes an increase in the
productivity of labor. "The only means to increase a nations welfare is
to increase and improve the output of its products." This book should
be read by all whom wonder how economic theory works and what role the
government should have on our economic choices.
This volume brings together for the first time a detailed examination of the state of phonological theory in this decade. In a series of essays on topics as varied as underspecification theory, prosodic morphology, and syllable structure, 38 leading phonologists offer a critical survey of the guiding ideas that lie behind this active area of linguistic research. In all cases, the contributions have been written by leading researchers, and in many cases, the chapters of this Handbook are the first published expositions of new perspectives which have already begun to shape the climate of research in the field.
This book argues that language is a network of concepts which in turn is part of the general cognitive network of the mind. It challenges the widely-held view that language is an innate mental module with its own special internal organization. It shows that language has the same internal organization as other areas of knowledge such as social relations and action schemas, and reveals the rich links between linguistic elements and contextual categories. Professor Hudson presents a new theory of how we learn and use our knowledge of language. He puts this to work in a series of extended explorations of morphology, syntax, semantics, and sociolinguistics. Every step of his argument and exposition is illustrated with examples, including the kind mainstream theory finds it hard to analyse. He introduces the latest version of his influential theory of Word Grammar and shows how it can be used to explain the operations of language and as a key to understanding the associated operations of the mind.
This leading Corporate Finance text is designed for the first course at the MBA level but is certainly used at many undergraduate programs as well. CORPORATE FINANCE emphasizes the modern fundamentals of the theory of finance. The authors make the theory come to life through the use of contemporary examples, clarity of exposition, and a balanced presentation of theory and practice. The authors consistently use the intuitions of arbitrage, net present value, efficient markets and options throughout the text. The goal of this text is to present corporate finance as the working of a small number of integrated and powerful intuitions. (amazon.com).
Robert C. Solomon, Not Passion's Slave: Emotions and Choice
The idea that we are in some significant sense responsible for our emotions is
an idea that Robert Solomon has developed for almost three decades. Here, in
a single volume, he traces the development of this theory of emotions and
elaborate it in detail. Two themes run through his work: the first presents
a "cognitive" theory of emotions in which emotions are construed primarily as
evaluative judgments. The second proposes an "existentialist" perspective in
which he defends the idea that, as we are responsible for our emotions.
Indeed, sometimes it even makes sense to say that we "choose" them.