Consumption is the largest component of GDP. Since the 1950s, the life cycle and the
permanent income models have constituted the main analytical tools to the study of …

Publisher Summary “Demand analysis” refers largely to the study of commodity demands by
consumers, most usually based on aggregate data but occasionally, and more so recently …

The first version of this book was published in 1992 as Foundations of Post-Keynesian
Economic Analysis. Ten years later, in 2002, I was asked to write a new edition; in fact …

We study how the recent national housing boom and bust affected college enrollment and
attainment during the 2000s. We exploit cross-city variation in local housing booms, and use …

A classic in its field, this pathbreaking book humanized the scientific rhetoric of economics to
reveal its literary soul. Economics needs to admit that it, like other sciences, works with …

This book provides an overview of recent research on saving and consumption, a field in
which substantial progress has been made over the last decade. Economists attempting to …

Recent micro-simulation studies of the demand for electricity by residences have attempted
to model jointly the demand for appliance and the demand for electricity by appliance. Within …

Blending elements of psychology, philosophy, and sociology with economics, Etzioni
presents a bold new vision of the social sciences-one which proposes that broader moral …

T ODAY, THE TERM" new institutional economics" is in widespread use and is associated
with a vast literature. Clearly, the temporal adjective in the adopted title of this broad set of …

Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and
poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable …