Princeton University

Quantitative Economics

Economics is the study of the allocation of scarce resources. The subject of this course is microeconomics, which examines the decision making of individuals and firms with regard to consumption, ...
Kellogg School of Management

The Economics of Incentives: An Introductory Account

Hugo Sonnenschein has served as president of The University of Chicago since 1993. He received his A.B. degree in mathematics from the University of Rochester in 1961 and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in ...
Nature

Our Changing World-View: Ten Lectures on Recent Movements of Thought in Science, Economics, Education, Literature and Philosophy

THE ten lectures contained in this volume were delivered under the auspices of the University Philosophical Society during June-September 1932 in aid of the Library Appeal Fund of the University of ...
Heriot-Watt University

Heriot-Watt marks 250 years of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations

Heriot‑Watt University marks 250 years of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations with a landmark event at Panmure House featuring a keynote lecture from Baroness Moyo.
Nature

Business Rationalisation, its Dangers and Advantages considered from the Psychological and Social Standpoints: Three Lectures given at the London School of Economics under the ...

THIS book attempts to give a more comprehensive picture of rationalisation than is suggested by its title, and in emphasising the importance of the human factor in rationalisation and the bearing of ...
The Financial Times

The essence of economics

A person of even middling intelligence who writes about markets will experience moments of acute self-doubt. I can map and predict the behaviour of markets — and more broadly, economies — in only the ...