“…Eighteenth- and early-nineteenth century theorists of liberalism such as Adam Smith and Thomas Malthus drew upon the new sciences of population to develop a liberal biopolitics that aimed to coordinate differences among individuals by means of the culling powers of the market. …”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Las ideas políticas en ItaliaGiambattista Vico o el sentido de la historia; Las ideas políticas en Inglaterra; La crítica del Derecho Natural: David Hume; La segunda mitad del siglo XVIII; Panorama de la época; La política y la economía; Los fisiócratas; Adam Smith; Política, moral y sociedad; Helvecio; Holbach; La teoría del progreso: Turgot y Condorcet; Thomas Robert Malthus; La jurisprudencia italiana:; Beccaria y Filangieri; El despotismo ilustrado; La práctica del despotismo ilustrado; 2 EL PENSAMIENTO POLÍTICO DE LA REVOLUCIÓN; La Revolución Americana y la Revolución Francesa…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- About the author -- Preface: Science, logic, ethics and theology in Ricardo's intellectual biography -- 1 Ricardo's Sepharad -- Twenty-one years in Ricardo's life -- Anglo-Judaism from 1600 to 1793 -- Echoes from the Haskalah -- Ricardo's education -- Partial conclusions: the importance of being an outsider -- 2 Ricardo's encounter with the Quakers -- The Society of Friends -- British Quakerism at the time of the French Revolution -- The impossible marriage of a Jew with a Quaker -- Ricardo's Quaker relations -- Ricardo's involvement in a Quaker secession -- Partial conclusions: the importance of being a husband -- 3 Ricardo's encounter with the Unitarians -- Scripture and reason -- Ricardo's 'conversion' -- Robert Aspland, the missionary to the Jews -- Thomas Belsham, the Biblical scholar -- James Lindsay, the campaigner for Toleration -- John Bowring and Thomas Smith -- Partial conclusions: the importance of being a Dissenter -- 4 Ricardo's encounter with geologists -- Ricardo's higher education -- The London Institution -- Chemistry after the phlogiston controversy -- Geology after the catastrophism-uniformitarianism controversy -- Richard Kirwan -- The Geological Society of London -- Controversies in geology: logic, definitions and causality -- From chemistry and geology to political economy -- Partial conclusions: the importance of a scientific education -- 5 Ricardo's encounter with philosophers and political economists -- Francis Horner and the Scottish philosophy -- Jeremy Bentham and the philosophic radicals -- James Mill, between Scottish philosophy and Benthamism -- Thomas Robert Malthus and the Cambridge philosophy -- Thomas Belsham and the Hartley-Priestley philosophy -- Jean-Baptiste Say and the idéologie…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…We Have No Bananas""; Chapter 5: Malthus Again: Population Pressures, Global Cooling, and the Coming Dark Age; The Dynamics of Weather; Not Wrong, but Early; Waiting for Our Malthusian Moment; The Next Little Ice Age; ""The Dog That Did Not Bark""; Putting Two and Two Together; A New Maunder Minimum; Dearth, Insanity, and Revolution…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…THEORETISCHE UND HISTORISCHE GRUNDLAGEN II.1 Vom Fordismus zum Postfordismus II.1.1 Fordismus II.1.2 Krise des Fordismus II.1.3 Postfordismus II.1.4 Fazit II.2 Bevölkerungsdiskurse und Biopolitik II.2.1 Malthus II.2.2 Neomalthusianismus und selektive Bevölkerungspolitik II.2.3 Der Überbevölkerungsdiskurs nach 1945 II.2.4 Fazit II.3 Geschichte der Pille als materielles Objekt II.3.1 Anfänge der modernen Verhütung II.3.2 Hormone II.3.3 Die Geburt der Pille II.3.4 Fazit II.4 Materielle Wirkung II.4.1 Biochemische Zusammenhänge II.4.2 Verpackung II.4.3 Fazit III. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Preface xi -- 1 Introduction 1 (24) -- The classical canon -- 1 (14) -- The Ricardo-Say relation: a review of the literature -- Plan of work -- 23 (2) -- 2 Value, distribution and growth before 1823 25 (61) -- Say's cost price analysis 1803 -- 25 (1) -- Cost-price analysis 1814-17 -- 26 (4) -- The Notes (1819) on Ricardo's Principles: cost price -- 30 (16) -- The Notes (1819) on Ricardo's Principles: rent -- 46 (9) -- Modifications to the Traite 1819 -- 55 (9) -- A further modification: the falling rate of interest and the inverse profit-wage relation -- 64 (3) -- The 'subsistence' wage and population size -- 67 (3) -- The utility dimension -- 70 (5) -- The Say-Ricardo correspondence 1820-2: approaching accord on value theory -- 75 (11) -- 3 Value, distribution and growth after 1823 86 (58) -- Cost price analysis -- 86 (11) -- Pricing and 'utility' -- 97 (9) -- Service-supply conditions -- 106 (13) -- The earnings structure -- 119 (3) -- Land-based limits to growth, the falling wage path and the stationary state -- 122 (6) -- The falling rate of interest -- 128 (1) -- Summary: Say's representation of Ricardo -- 129 (15) -- 4 On 'riches': real income and its measurement 144 (45) -- Introduction -- 144 (1) -- The early Say-Ricardo exchange 1815 -- 145 (1) -- Riches' as real-income flow: the case elaborated -- 146 (10) -- The late Say-Ricardo exchange 1821-2 -- 156 (2) -- Post-1823 statements -- 158 (7) -- Malthus on Say and 'riches' -- 165 (5) -- Capital accumulation: productive and unproductive consumption -- 170 (7) -- On surplus: gross and net revenue -- 177 (2) -- Taxation and economic activity -- 179 (5) -- The gains from trade -- 184 (1) -- Summary and conclusion -- 185 (4) -- 5 The Law of Markets 189 (37) -- Introduction -- 189 (1) -- Say's first statement, 1803 -- 189 (5) -- The evolution of Say's position: general excess supply and the problem of 'counter-commodities' -- 194 (9) -- The interpretation of contemporary depression -- 203 (9) -- 'Limits to production': the Law of Markets recanted? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “….); LA LEY DE LOS MERCADOS; EL PESIMISMO DE THOMAS MALTHUS; EL AHORRO Y LA INVERSIÓN; CAPÍTULO 12 LA ECONOMÍA POLÍTICA DE DAVID (...); LOS PRINCIPIOS DE RICARDO; LA TEORÍA DE LA RENTA; LA TEORÍA DE LOS SALARIOS; LA TEORÍA DE LA UTILIDAD; LA INVARIABLE MEDIDA DEL VALOR: UNA OBSESIÓN (...); RESUMEN DEL SISTEMA DE RICARDO; CAPÍTULO 13 TRAS LOS PASOS DE RICARDO. (...); LA ESCUELA DEL CIRCULANTE CONTRA LA ESCUELA (...); PENSAMIENTO ECONÓMICO NORTEAMERICANO; CAPÍTULO 14 JOHN STUART MILL. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…David Ricardo -- 3. Thomas Robert Malthus -- 4. John Stuart Mill -- 5. Karl Marx -- IV. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Proudhon and Sismondi: Producers cannot buy their produce -- Section 5. Malthus: Costs cannot buy value -- Section 6. What Say said and Ricardo’s Law of Say -- Section 7. …”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Smith y Ricardo: Los clásicos; iii. Malthus: La población sobrante y el consumo suntuario; iv. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…La parte constructiva; 3.3. La ley de Malthus de la sensibilidad; 4. De la monarquía a la república y Pessoa el (...); 4.1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Los trabajadores como raza. -- Malthus. La imprudencia de los pobres. -- John Stuart Mill -- Carlos Marx. -- Max Weber -- Alfred Marshall. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Organismic Theory: The State as Organism -- Juridical Theory: The State as Law Giver -- Idealistic Theory -- Review Questions -- Endnotes -- Chapter 4: Roles and Functions of the State and the Nature of State Power -- Introduction -- Liberal and Neo-Liberal Theories -- Negative Liberalism and Theory of Laissez-Faire State -- Thomas Hobbes and John Locke: Theorists of the Possessive Individual -- Theorists of the Laissez-Faire State -- Physiocrats -- Adam Smith -- Thomas Robert Malthus and David Ricardo -- Jeremy Bentham -- Herbert Spencer -- The Mills -- Positive Liberalism and Theory of the Welfare State -- John Stuart Mill -- Utilitarianism revised -- Liberty: Positive and negative -- Positive state -- Thomas Hill Green -- Freedom as positive power -- Theory of rights: Ideal and natural -- Role of the state: Idealist and positive -- Leonard T. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Keynes - vom jungen zum alten Malthus -- V. Fertilität als Problem individueller Optimierung -- C. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Ownership of For-Profit Firms -- The Management of Firms -- What Owners Want -- 6.2 Production -- Production Functions -- Time and the Variability of Inputs -- 6.3 Short-Run Production: One Variable and One Fixed Input -- Solved Problem 6.1 -- Interpretation of Graphs -- Solved Problem 6.2 -- Law of Diminishing Marginal Returns -- APPLICATION Malthus and the Green Revolution -- 6.4 Long-Run Production: Two Variable Inputs -- Isoquants -- APPLICATION A Semiconductor Integrated Circuit Isoquant -- Substituting Inputs -- Solved Problem 6.3 -- Diminishing Marginal Rates of Technical Substitution -- The Elasticity of Substitution -- Solved Problem 6.4 -- 6.5 Returns to Scale -- Constant, Increasing, and Decreasing Returns to Scale -- Solved Problem 6.5 -- APPLICATION Returns to Scale in Various Industries -- Varying Returns to Scale -- 6.6 Productivity and Technical Change -- Relative Productivity -- APPLICATION A Good Boss Raises Productivity -- Innovations -- APPLICATION Tata Nano's Technical and Organizational Innovations -- CHALLENGE SOLUTION Labor Productivity During Downturns -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 7 Costs -- CHALLENGE Technology Choice at Home Versus Abroad -- 7.1 Measuring Costs -- Opportunity Costs -- APPLICATION The Opportunity Cost of an MBA -- Solved Problem 7.1 -- Opportunity Cost of Capital -- Sunk Costs -- 7.2 Short-Run Costs -- Short-Run Cost Measures -- APPLICATION The Sharing Economy and the Short Run -- Solved Problem 7.2 -- Short-Run Cost Curves -- Production Functions and the Shape of Cost Curves -- APPLICATION Short-Run Cost Curves for a Japanese Beer Manufacturer -- Effects of Taxes on Costs -- Short-Run Cost Summary -- 7.3 Long-Run Costs -- Input Choice -- Solved Problem 7.3 -- Solved Problem 7.4 -- How Long-Run Cost Varies with Output -- Solved Problem 7.5 -- Solved Problem 7.6 -- The Shape of Long-Run Cost Curves…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Chapter Summary -- Key Terms -- Questions for Review -- Problems -- Working with the Data -- Chapter 6 Search and Unemployment -- Labor Market Facts -- Macroeconomics in Action: Unemployment and Employment in the United States and Europe -- A One-Sided Search Model of Unemployment -- A Two-Sided Model of Search and Unemployment -- Working with the Two-Sided Search Model -- Macroeconomics in Action: Unemployment Insurance and Incentives -- Theory Confronts the Data: Productivity, Unemployment, and Real GDP in the United States and Canada: The 2008-2009 Recession -- Macroeconomics in Action: The Natural Rate of Unemployment and the 2008-2009 Recession -- Chapter Summary -- Key Terms -- Questions for Review -- Problems -- Working with the Data -- PART III Economic Growth -- Chapter 7 Economic Growth: Malthus and Solow -- Economic Growth Facts -- The Malthusian Model of Economic Growth…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Firms and Production -- Challenge: More Productive Workers During Downturns -- 6.1 The Ownership and Management of Firms -- Private, Public, and Nonprofit Firms -- Application: Chinese State-Owned Enterprises -- The Ownership of For-Profit Firms -- The Management of Firms -- What Owners Want -- 6.2 Production -- Production Functions -- Time and the Variability of Inputs -- 6.3 Short-Run Production -- Total Product -- Marginal Product of Labor -- Solved Problem 6.1 -- Average Product of Labor -- Graphing the Product Curves -- Law of Diminishing Marginal Returns -- Application: Malthus and the Green Revolution -- 6.4 Long-Run Production -- Isoquants -- Application: Self-Driving Trucks -- Substituting Inputs -- Solved Problem 6.2 -- 6.5 Returns to Scale -- Constant, Increasing, and Decreasing Returns to Scale -- Solved Problem 6.3 -- Application: Returns to Scale in Various Industries -- Varying Returns to Scale -- 6.6 Productivity and Technical Change -- Relative Productivity -- Innovations -- Application: Restaurant Robots -- Application: A Good Boss Raises Productivity -- Challenge Solution: More Productive Workers During Downturns -- Key Terms -- Summary -- Questions -- Chapter 7. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…4.2 Optimal Consumption Bundles: Equi-marginal principle in consumption -- 4.3 Intertemporal Decision Making and the Rational Consumer: Incorporating impatience into models of consumer choice -- 4.4 Futures Markets: A way of reducing uncertainty -- 4.5 Problems with Insurance Markets: Adverse selection and moral hazard -- 4.6 Nudging People: How to change behaviour without taking away choice -- 5 The supply decision -- 5.1 Production and Costs: Short Run -- Short-run and long-run changes in production -- Production in the short run: the law of diminishing returns -- Measuring costs of production -- Costs and output -- 5.2 Production and Costs: Long Run -- The scale of production -- Long-run average cost -- The relationship between long-run and short-run average cost curves -- Long-run cost curves in practice -- Postscript: decision- making in different time periods -- 5.3 Revenue -- Total, average and marginal revenue -- Average and marginal revenue curves when price is not affected by the firm's output -- Average and marginal revenue curves when price varies with output -- Shifts in revenue curves -- 5.4 Profit Maximisation -- Some qualifications -- 5.5 Problems with Traditional Theory -- Explaining actual producer behaviour -- Alternative aims -- Chapter 5 Boxes -- 5.1 Diminishing Returns in the Bread Shop: Is the baker using his loaf? -- 5.2 Malthus and the Dismal Science of Economics: Population growth + diminishing returns = starvation -- 5.3 The Relationship Between Averages and Marginals -- 5.4 Costs and the Economic Vulnerability of Firms: The behaviour of costs and firms' financial well-being -- 5.5 The Optimum Combinations of Inputs: Equi-marginal principle in production -- 5.6 Minimum Efficient Scale: The extent of economies of scale in practice -- 6 Market structures -- 6.1 The Degree of Competition -- 6.2 Perfect Competition…”