https://hdl.handle.net/10419/182371 2026-09-21T10:53:29Z 2026-09-21T10:53:29Z Richter, Michael Rubinstein, Ariel https://hdl.handle.net/10419/305343 2024-11-09T02:06:36Z 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: No Prices No Games!: Four Economic Models Authors: Richter, Michael; Rubinstein, Ariel Abstract: While current economic theory focuses on prices and games, this book models economic settings where harmony is established through one of the following societal conventions: • A power relation according to which stronger agents are able to force weaker ones to do things against their will. • A norm that categorizes actions as permissible or forbidden. • A status relation over alternatives which limits each agent's choices. • Systematic biases in agents' preferences. These four conventions are analysed using simple and mathematically straightforward models, without any pretensions regarding direct applied usefulness. While we do not advocate for the adoption of any of these conventions specifically – we do advocate that when modelling an economic situation, alternative equilibrium notions should be considered, rather than automatically reaching for the familiar approaches of prices or games.

2024-01-01T00:00:00Z Richter, Michael https://hdl.handle.net/10419/312707 2025-04-25T05:56:23Z 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: No Prices No Games! Four Economic Models Authors: Richter, Michael Abstract: While current economic theory focuses on prices and games, this book models economic settings where harmony is established through one of the following societal conventions: • A power relation according to which stronger agents are able to force weaker ones to do things against their will. • A norm that categorizes actions as permissible or forbidden. • A status relation over alternatives which limits each agent's choices. • Systematic biases in agents' preferences. These four conventions are analysed using simple and mathematically straightforward models, without any pretensions regarding direct applied usefulness. While we do not advocate for the adoption of any of these conventions specifically – we do advocate that when modelling an economic situation, alternative equilibrium notions should be considered, rather than automatically reaching for the familiar approaches of prices or games.

2024-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10419/321946 2025-07-25T04:09:07Z 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Investing in the Structural Transformation: 2024 European Public Investment Outlook Editors: Cerniglia, Floriana Margherita Abstract: The fifth volume in the European Public Investment Outlook series explores how Europe can drive structural transformation through strategic public investment. Reflecting on the lessons from the 2008–2020 polycrisis and recent economic challenges, this timely book examines fiscal policy's role in both stabilization and long-term economic development. Part I, 'State of the Art', reviews current public investment and industrial policies in major European economies, including France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. It provides detailed analyses of each country's approach to fostering structural transformation through public investment. Part II, 'Challenges', addresses the diverse obstacles and opportunities facing Europe's industrial policy. It emphasizes a multidimensional strategy to overcome bottlenecks in key sectors and drive transformation. Topics include the role of industrial policy in the green transition, creating a cohesive strategy for Europe, enhancing economic security, trends in European Union defence spending, sustainable mobility, and financing structural investment beyond 2027. This volume is essential reading for researchers, economists, and policymakers focused on understanding and implementing effective public policy in Europe, and will further appeal to anyone interested in EU governance and public investment strategies more broadly.

2024-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10419/290584 2024-04-30T01:30:43Z 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Cheap Print and Street Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century Editors: Atkinson, David; Roud, Steve Abstract: This deeply researched collection offers a comprehensive introduction to the eighteenth-century trade in street literature – ballads, chapbooks, and popular prints – in England and Scotland. Offering detailed studies of a selection of the printers, types of publication, and places of publication that constituted the cheap and popular print trade during the period, these essays delve into ballads, slip songs, story books, pictures, and more to push back against neat divisions between low and high culture, or popular and high literature. The breadth and depth of the contributions give a much fuller and more nuanced picture of what was being widely published and read during this period than has previously been available. It will be of great value to scholars and students of eighteenth-century popular culture and literature, print history and the book trade, ballad and folk studies, children's literature, and social history.

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