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Harvard’s Contributions to Development Economics
In this chapter on Harvard University’s contributions to development economics, Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are...
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Economics of Quality: The Most Important Direction in the Development of Economic Science
AbstractThe article, based on extensive factual material, shows the path of the formation of the science of quality, its formation and development in...
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Special feature: economics education and evolutionary economics
This preface introduces five items that constitute this special feature and suggests the future task with which evolutionary economists and other...
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Past and Future of Empirical Development Economics
This chapter briefly summarizes the trajectory of empirical development economics and discusses the recent advancements and future challenges. The...
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Economics with a biological foundation
We argue in three lectures that economics should develop on a foundation of biology. We first define what economics with biological foundation is,...
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Dispute on the reference standard for economics in Japan and its international backgrounds: is pluralism vs. standardization an appropriate scheme in economics education?
A dispute over economics education occurred in Japan in 2013 when the draft of the Reference Standard for Economics Education (RS Economics) of the...
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Joke economics: the low profile of comedy in the economics of arts and culture
Despite being a globally significant form of art and culture, the performance of comedy has seemingly maintained a very low profile in cultural...
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Origin and Development of Infrastructure Economics
This chapter first surveys the views of famous scholars and major theories on infrastructure. On this basis, it collects the empirical evidence of...
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Austrian economics as a relevant research program
What is the relevancy of modern Austrian economics? Austrian economics, from its origins, has attempted to push economics towards greater relevance...
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Overarching economic theory and economics education in times of crisis
In this paper, we have argued how research and education in economics should be conducted under the current circumstances where the “crisis of...
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A capabilitarian behavioral economics: what behavioral economics can learn from the capability approach
Behavioral economics (BE) accounts for how people actually behave has proven to be very influential in multiple domains. Its insights have dislodged...
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Theory of Commercial Gravitational Fields in Economics: The Case of Europe
This article is a theoretical development of the gravitational model through an econophysical approach and physical tools. Therefore, this paper...
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Why are Schools Reclassifying Their Economics Major?
This article uses logistic regression analysis to determine which factors are important in whether an institution reclassifies its general economics...
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Exploration and Development of Natural Resource Economics
The theoretical research on natural resource economics can be traced back to William Pedi in the seventeenth century and Malthus in the eighteenth...
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Pioneering Feminist Economics: Barbara Bergmann’s Contributions to Gender Issues
Barbara Bergmann’s exploration of gender issues, especially the intra-house division of labor and marriage theory, was a central focus in early...
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The Harvard-MIT complexity approach to development and Austrian economics: Similarities and policy implications
In recent years, researchers from MIT and Harvard University have developed a complexity approach to economic development. This perspective...
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What can complexity learn from Misesian economics?
This paper analyzes the work of Ludwig von Mises in search of commonalities with complexity economics. Alternatively to the literature on the links...
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Politics and Economics
The road to perdition for the United States, the Last, Best Hope of Earth, is paved with the poverty of our current political discourse. The...
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Pareto’s legacy in the Italian tradition: the case of mathematical economics
Pareto’s personality had a great influence on the evolution of economic theory in the last century at least in the Italian context. At the beginning...