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Marxian economics—particularly in academia—is distinguished from Marxism as a political ideology, as well as from the normative aspects of Marxist thought: this reflects the view that Marx's original approach to understanding economics and economic development is intellectually independent from his own advocacy of revolutionary socialism.
Spear and Young re-examine the history of optimal growth during the 1950s and 1960s, [8] focusing in part on the veracity of the claimed simultaneous and independent development of Cass' "Optimum growth in an aggregative model of capital accumulation" (published in 1965 in the Review of Economic Studies), and Tjalling Koopman's "On the concept ...
The main goal of the new model is to re-frame economic problems and set new goals. In this context, the model is also referred to as a "wake-up call to transform our capitalist worldview". [5] In this model, an economy is considered prosperous when all twelve social foundations are met without overshooting any of the nine ecological ceilings ...
In economics and game theory, the decisions of two or more players are called strategic complements if they mutually reinforce one another, and they are called strategic substitutes if they mutually offset one another. These terms were originally coined by Bulow, Geanakoplos, and Klemperer (1985). [1]
Ricardian economics are the economic theories of David Ricardo, an English political economist born in 1772 who made a fortune as a stockbroker and loan broker. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] At the age of 27, he read An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith and was energised by the theories of economics.
In economics, a complementary good is a good whose appeal increases with the popularity of its complement. [ further explanation needed ] Technically, it displays a negative cross elasticity of demand and that demand for it increases when the price of another good decreases. [ 1 ]
Applied economics is the application of economic theory and econometrics in specific settings. As one of the two sets of fields of economics (the other set being the core), [1] it is typically characterized by the application of the core, i.e. economic theory and econometrics to address practical issues in a range of fields including demographic economics, labour economics, business economics ...
Positive economics focuses on the description, quantification and explanation of economic phenomena; [1] normative economics often takes the form of discussions about fairness and what the outcome of the economy or goals of public policy ought to be, [2] as well as prescriptions regarding rational choice (in decision theory).