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Principles of Political Economy (1848) by John Stuart Mill was one of the most important economics or political economy textbooks of the mid-nineteenth century. [1] It was revised until its seventh edition in 1871, [2] shortly before Mill's death in 1873, and republished in numerous other editions. [3]
A second edition of Malthus' Principles of Political Economy was published in 1836. [1] After the first version's publication, Adam Smith develops the idea that an object's inherent value is related to the labor that went into its creation. [1]
Illustration of Industry 4.0, showing the four "industrial revolutions" with a brief English description. Industrial sociology, until recently a crucial research area within the field of sociology of work, examines "the direction and implications of trends in technological change, globalization, labour markets, work organization, managerial practices and employment relations" to "the extent to ...
On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (19 April 1817) is a book by David Ricardo on economics. [1] The book concludes that land rent grows as population increases.
Principles of Economics [1] is a leading political economy or economics textbook of Alfred Marshall (1842–1924), first published in 1890. [2] [3] It was the standard text for generations of economics students.
Econophysics is a non-orthodox (in economics) interdisciplinary research field, applying theories and methods originally developed by physicists in order to solve problems in economics, usually those including uncertainty or stochastic processes and nonlinear dynamics.
Evolutionary economics is a school of economic thought that is inspired by evolutionary biology.Although not defined by a strict set of principles and uniting various approaches, it treats economic development as a process rather than an equilibrium and emphasizes change (qualitative, organisational, and structural), innovation, complex interdependencies, self-evolving systems, and limited ...
Menger advanced his theory that the marginal utility of goods, rather than labor inputs, is the source of their value. This marginalist theory solved the diamond-water paradox that had been puzzling classical economists: the fact that mankind finds diamonds to be far more valuable than water although water is far more important.