Time and Economics The Concept of Functional Time /

• Main Author: Rohatinski, Željko (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Philosophy and science.; Economic theory.; Economics.; Regional economics.; Spatial economics.; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.; Philosophy of Science.; History of Economic Thought/Methodology.; Economic Systems.; Regional/Spatial Science.

This book links the philosophical perception of time and Einstein’s theory of special relativity to economic processes, showing that the phenomena of time dilation and length contraction seen in physics can be identified within – and adapted to – an economic framework. The author expands on Marx’s m...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Part I. The Functional Time Hypothesis
• Chapter 2. Time as an Objective Category.- Chapter 3. Time as a Subjective Category.- Part II. The Structure and Character of Economic Activity
• Chapter 4. Historical Character
• Chapter 5. Circular Character.- Chapter 6. Components and Course
• Chapter 7. Causal Relations.- Chapter 8. Structural Relations.- Chapter 9. Equilibrium Relations.- Chapter 10. Modelling Economic Activity
• Part III. Economic Activity in Time and the Character of Functional Time
• Chapter 11. Functional Time.- Chapter 12. The Relative Character of Functional Time.- Chapter 13. The Time Determination of Economic Activity
• Chapter 14. Concluding Remarks.