Economics for the Twenty First Century or Domesday Book and beyond

Economics for the Twenty-First Century: The Economics of the Economist-Fox

Author: Andrew M M Kamarck

"Isaiah Berlin, in his famous essay, identified the chasm that exists between those thinkers or 'hedgehogs', who relate everything to a single system, and 'foxes' who see the world as too complex to be captured by any single universal absolute. The emphasis in twentieth-century economics on technical virtuosity in manipulating mathematics tended to turn students into such 'hedgehogs'. To be effective, economics must take into consideration the complexity of human beings and the contextual, institutional, social and historical factors at play in the economy. Like the fox, today's economist must be resourceful and intuitive." This book greatly increases the range of tools at the economist's disposal. It draws extensively on the knowledge and experience of other disciplines, providing the current generation with unprecedented flexibility in the practical application of their study.

Charles Kindleberger

Economics for the Twenty-first Century is an eloquent call for moving beyond self-interest based on markets and producing equilibrium to a more complex analysis. This would include sociology with cultural differences and regard for others, government that included not only bureaucrats (also found in corporations), but people devoted to the public interest, geography explaining how the tropics and especially sub-Sahara Africa suffer from lack of winter with its creative destruction of disease-bearing parasites, and much more. Kamarck brings to the analysis experience in World War II, the Marshall Plan, World Bank (twenty-eight years), the Harvard Institute for International Development, and wide scholarship. It is strongly recommended for those who think economics is a science like physics, the outcomes of which are predictable.

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Domesday Book and Beyond

Author: FW William Maitland

In an extended foreword, specially prepared for this new impression, J.C. Holt asserts categorically "that Domesday Book and Beyond remains the greatest single book on English medieval history." Its lucidity, subtlety, compass, and (remarkably) statistical facility stand quite unsurpassed and, as Professor Holt demonstrates, many of the arguments that have dominated English medieval scholarship during the ensuing ninety years stem directly from Maitland's own hypotheses and conclusions.

Table of Contents:

Foreword; Preface; List of Abbreviations; Essay I. Domesday Book:

1. Plan of the survey;
2. The Serfs;
3. The Villeins;
4. The Sokemen;
5. Sake and Soke;
6. The manor;
7. Manor and vill;
8. The feudal superstructure;
9. The boroughs; Essay II. England Before the Conquest:
10. Book-land and the land-book;
11. Book-land and folk-land;
12. Sake and Soke;
13. Book-land and loan-land;
14. The growth of seignorial power;
15. The village community; Essay III. The Hide:
16. Measures and fields;
17. Domesday statistics;
18. Beyond domesday.