The Evolution of Economies: Money-Bargaining, Economic Change and Industrial Revolution

ISBN-13: 9780367668556 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 336 str.

Patrick Spread

Opis

The Evolution of Economies provides a clear account of how economies evolve under a process of support bargaining and money bargaining. They both allow people to determine their interests and requirements by reference to their present circumstances. This gives the bargaining system a natural evolutionary dynamic, allowing society to evolve from

Spis treści

Introduction   Chapter 1: Support-Bargaining and the Evolution of Human Societies   Chapter 2: Money and Money-Bargaining   Chapter 3: Macroeconomics and Money-Bargaining   Chapter 4: Evolutionary Economics   Chapter 5: The Evolution of Money-Bargaining   Chapter 6: The State and Money-Bargaining   Chapter 7: Support-Bargaining, Credit and Confidence   Chapter 8: The Evolution of Foreign Trade   Chapter 9: Information and the Evolution of Communications   Conclusion   Bibliography

O autorze

Patrick Spread spent his early years in the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire villages where his father was vicar. In his teens he was at Wellington College, going on to Oxford University. After a few years in London he went to work overseas, first in the Solomon Islands and then in other countries, including Fiji, Indonesia, Georgia and Ethiopia. In time out from these assignments he worked on theory consistent with the experience. He received a doctorate at the London Business School in 1982. In recent years he has been able to give full attention to theoretical issues.