Few other economists have been read and cited as much as R.H. Coase, a scholar who approached economics as a philosopher: with contemplation, careful scrutiny of real conditions and consideration of the practical implications of theory. "These essays bear rereading. Coase's careful attention to actual institutions not only offers deep insight into economics but also provides the best argument for Coase's methodological position. The clarity of the exposition and the elegance of the style also make them a pleasure to read and a model worthy of emulation."--Lewis A. Kornhauser, Journal of Economic Literature

在《经济学理论与认知科学:微观解释》中，唐·罗斯探讨了经济学与行为科学的其他分支学科之间的关系。他的理论分析围绕如下中心议题展开：怎样才能把经济学阐释为一门健全的经验科学。认知科学、行为科学与经济学家的日常研究密切相关，唐·罗斯此书对经济理论与这些相关学科的理论基础之间的各种关系进行了深入探究。该书提出的一个问题是：日趋成熟的微观经济分析技术是否真的揭示了某些深层次的经验规律?或者说，技术进步在其它意义上是否也代表着某种改善?罗斯在书中把丹尼尔·丹尼特和肯尼思·宾默尔塑造为知识英雄，并以他们的思想为依托给出了一个整全性的经济理论模型，罗斯强调指出，它并不是要取代新古典主义，恰恰相反，它是新古典主义核心见解的复兴，并反对行为经济学和演化经济学的某些倡导者把新古典主义当作一种漫画式的过时观念加以冷嘲热讽的做法。

Where do new ideas come from? What is social intelligence? Why do social scientists perform mindless statistical rituals? This vital book is about rethinking rationality as adaptive to understand how minds cope with their environments, both ecological and social.

Gerd Gigerenzer proposes and illustrates a bold new research program that investigates the psychology of rationality, introducing the concepts of ecological, bounded, and social rationality. His path-breaking collection takes research on thinking, social intelligence, creativity, and decision-making out of an ethereal world where the laws of logic and probability reign, and places it into our real world of human behavior and interaction. Adaptive Thinking is accessibly written for general readers with an interest in psychology, cognitive science, economics, sociology, philosophy, artificial intelligence, and animal behavior. It also teaches a practical audience, such as physicians, AIDS counselors, and experts in criminal law, how to understand and communicate uncertainties and risks.

The Wealth of Nations
by Adam Smith
It is symbolic that Adam Smith’s masterpiece of economic analysis, The Wealth of Nations, was first published in 1776, the same year as the Declaration of Independence.
In his book, Smith fervently extolled the simple yet enlightened notion that individuals are fully capable of setting and regulating prices for their own goods and services. He argued passionately in favor of free trade, yet stood up for the little guy. The Wealth of Nations provided the first--and still the most eloquent--integrated description of the workings of a market economy.
The result of Smith’s efforts is a witty, highly readable work of genius filled with prescient theories that form the basis of a thriving capitalist system. This unabridged edition offers the modern reader a fresh look at a timeless and seminal work that revolutionized the way governments and individuals view the creation and dispersion of wealth--and that continues to influence our economy right up to the present day.
"Adam Smith's enormous authority resides, in the end, in the same property that we discover in Marx: not in any ideology, but in an effort to see to the bottom of things."
--Robert L. Heilbroner
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This book examines the development of the ideas of the new Austrian school from its beginnings in Vienna in the 1870s to the present. It focuses primarily on showing how the coherent theme that emerges from the thought of Carl Menger, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, Ludwig Lachmann, Israel Kirzner and a variety of new younger Austrians is an examination of the implications of time and ignorance (or processes and knowledge) for economic theory.

British economist ALFRED MARSHALL (1842-1924) was one of the most prominent thinkers of his age on the philosophy of finance, and this, considered his greatest work, was for years the standard text on the subject. First published in 1890, it serves as an excellent primer on such topics as: basic economic laws the purpose of economic studies fundamental concepts including wealth, production, consumption, labor, income, capital, and others understanding consumer demand an introduction to market studies and much more. This replica of the 1920 eighth edition is completely unabridged, and features the vital Mathematical Appendix, including all of Marshall's equations and diagrams.

The ideas and the personalities of eminent men in the field of economics are described by a modern economist

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 published
. In it, John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern conceived a groundbreaking mathematical theory of economic and social organization, based on a theory of games of strategy. Not only would this revolutionize economics, but the entirely new field of scientific inquiry it yielded--game theory--has since been widely used to analyze a host of real-world phenomena from arms races to optimal policy choices of presidential candidates, from vaccination policy to major league baseball salary negotiations. And it is today established throughout both the social sciences and a wide range of other sciences.
This sixtieth anniversary edition includes not only the original text but also an introduction by Harold Kuhn, an afterword by Ariel Rubinstein, and reviews and articles on the book that appeared at the time of its original publication in the
, tthe
, and a variety of other publications. Together, these writings provide readers a matchless opportunity to more fully appreciate a work whose influence will yet resound for generations to come.

倘若货币经济带来的不安全感和不忠感——与具体财产的情况针锋相对——不得不造成十足的现代情绪的恶果：即人们满心期望占有某件东西得到满足，一瞬间马上又有了超出这件东西的欲望，即生命的内核与意义总是从人们手中滑落，那么这就证实了人们有一个深切的渴望，要给予事物一种新的意义，一种更加深刻的意义，一种事物本身的价值。
现代，尤其看起来是在最近的阶段，浸透着焦虑、期望和没有消除的渴望的感觉，好像最重要的、终极性的事情要来了，那就是生活和事物的真正意义与中心点。这当然是手段剧增在感觉上带来的结果，我们复杂的生活技术迫使我们在手段之上建筑手段，直至手段应该服务的真正目标不断地退到意识的地平线上，并最终沉入地平线下。在这个过程中，影响最大的因素就是金钱。

More Heat Than Light is a history of how physics has drawn some inspiration from economics and also how economics has sought to emulate physics, especially with regard to the theory of value. It traces the development of the energy concept in Western physics and its subsequent effect upon the invention and promulgation of neoclassical economics. Any discussion of the standing of economics as a science must include the historical symbiosis between the two disciplines. Starting with the philosopher Emile Meyerson's discussion of the relationship between notions of invariance and causality in the history of science, the book surveys the history of conservation principles in the Western discussion of motion. Recourse to the metaphors of the economy are frequent in physics, and the concepts of value, motion, and body reinforced each other throughout the development of both disciplines, especially with regard to practices of mathematical formalisation. However, in economics subsequent misuse of conservation principles led to serious blunders in the mathematical formalisation of economic theory. The book attempts to provide the reader with sufficient background in the history of physics in order to appreciate its theses. The discussion is technically detailed and complex, and familiarity with calculus is required.

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Kornai, in opposition to Walrasian general equilibrium theory, developed in this work an alternative framework for a non-Walrasian type of economics, blending elements of organization theory, information theory, management science and the new disequilibrium economics. "One of the few economists of the Eastern bloc ... read with interest by Western economists ... The book attracted considerable attention." M. Blaug Great Economists Since Keynes