Behavioral Economics
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Behavioural Economics and Finance
Series: Routledge Advanced Texts in Economics and Finance
Standard models in economics and finance usually assume that people are rational, self-interested maximisers, effectively co-ordinated via the invisible hand of the price mechanism. Whilst these approaches produce tractable, simple models, they cannot fully capture the uncertainties and...
Published September 3rd 2012 by Routledge
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The Rhetoric of the Right
Language Change and the Spread of the Market
Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
This study seeks to demonstrate the subtle ways in which changes in the language associated with economic issues are reflective of a gradual but quantifiable conservative ideological shift. In this rigorous analysis, David George uses as his data a century of word usage within The New York Times,...
Published August 5th 2012 by Routledge




