Annual Survey of Significant Developments in General Economic Theory

The Equilibrium Manifold: Postmodern Developments in the Theory of General Economic Equilibrium

Conclusion: Economic Theory and the General Theory of Social Systems

The purpose of this brief concluding chapter is to summarize our analysis by stages and to point up some implications for economic and sociological theory, respectively, and for the relations between them. Our central proposition is that economic theory is a special case of the general theory of social systems, which is in turn one of the main branches of the developing general theory of action...

A survey of annual effective and genetically significant dose from conventional X-ray examinations in 10 counties in Khorasan province-Iran

Background: A study has been conducted to assess two useful radiation protection indices, the annual per-capita effective dose equivalent (AED) and the genetically significant dose (GSD), from conventional diagnostic radiography in 10 counties with more than 1,886,000 inhabitants in Khorasan province in Iran. Materials and Methods: The health centre authorities of Khorasan province were asked t...

Classical thermodynamics and economic general equilibrium theory

A long history of analogy making between neoclassical economics and physical thermodynamics has unfortunately served to obscure two important relations between the two fields: their definitions of equilibria stem from essentially the same three axioms for the mathematical representations of systems, while the classes of transformation each has chosen to emphasize, and their responses to the pro...

Some Recent Developments in Capital Market Theory: A Survey

This paper surveys some recent developments in the theory of capital markets. Particular emphasis is given to two strands of the literature. The rst covers some recent and fundamental extensions to the theory of risk aversion and the demand for risky assets. These papers are concerned with the e ect of nonhedgeable background risk on risk attitudes. The important implications for nance are for ...