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Brings together Professor Arthur's pioneering article and provides a comprehensive presentation of his exciting vision of an economics that incorporates increasing returns. After a decade of resistance from economists, these ideas are now being widely discussed and adopted, as Kenneth Arrow recounts in his foreword.

This title examines the implications of research in the natural sciences for two important scientific approaches to individual behaviour, the economic/rational choice and the sociological/anthropological.

Explores the implications of integrity for contracts between buyers and sellers and understandings between employers and employees. This book reintroduces morality as a factor for economists, sociologists, psychologists, and political scientists to consider in their efforts to comprehend human behavior.

Provides much of the evidence underpinning a growing consensus among development and growth economists that successful economic development depends fundamentally on the way societies are organised and governed. They argue that ""good governance"" is a prerequisite to sustained increases in living standards.

Null hypothesis significance testing is a scientific train-wreck, about which a small group of statisticians have been warning. This book shows how the wreck happened, and reports on the fatalities. It shows how wide the disaster is, and traces the problem to its historical, sociological, and philosophical roots.

Explores the NIE with a critical assessment of its theoretical contributions. This second edition aims to explain and assess some of the major refinements, extensions and useful applications that have been introduced into the body of neoinstitutionalist thought in recent years.

Since the 1960s, theorists have elaborated different solutions to the collection action problem. During the same period, students of conflict have explored questions about protest and rebellion. This book examines what happens when one brings the full richness of collective action theories to bear on the many complex problems of collective dissent.