New Principles of Economics

Carsten Herrmann-Pillath is Professor of Economics and Permanent Fellow at the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, University of Erfurt, Germany.Christian Hederer is Professor of Economics and International Economic Policy at the Technical University of Applied Sciences Wildau, Germany.

• Introduction PART I: 1. What Are Markets? 2. Economics as the science of markets 3. Economics and values PART II 4. Evolution, ecology, economy 5. Specialisation and cooperation 6. Production and technological evolution PART III 7. The economic agent 8. Networks and social interaction 9. Institutions 10. Money and value 11. Markets evolving PART IV 12. Money and finance 13. Economic fluctuations and aggregate economic evolution 14. The economics of global markets 15. Markets and inequality 16. Global economic growth in the Earth system PART V 17. Economic policy 18. Epilogue: The economist as adviser

"Introductory courses in economics are like gated communities; they rarely admit visitors from other disciplines. The authors' approach here, in contrast, is refreshingly interdisciplinary. The result is a novel approach to teaching -- and thinking about -- economics."Barry Eichengreen, George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economics, University of California at Berkeley"Recommended for all of those readers who want to see economics going beyond values and markets, this book considers evolution, ecology, energy, history and technology as essential parts of a new synthesis."Vaclav Smil, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (Science Academy), and a Member of the Order of Canada"This book offers a fresh and vivid approach to the teaching and understanding of basic principles in economics. Using recent theoretical and empirical research, it invigorates and extends these principles in an exciting and highly insightful manner. It adopts a dynamic, evolutionary perspective and stresses the centrality of institutions in any economic system. This is a very important book."Geoffrey Hodgson, Emeritus Professor in Management at Loughborough University London. Editor in Chief of the Journal of Institutional Economics"Economics needs renovation. Carsten Herrmann-Pillath and Christian Hederer provide creative synthesis out of the combination of domains that are hitherto conceived to be foreign. Now, the time is mature to bring their transdisciplinary investigation to the front of the principles of economics."Kiichiro Yagi, Emeritus Professor of Economics, Kyoto University