Economic Theory (River Publishers Series in Multi Business Model Innovation, Technologies and Sustainable Business)

Front Cover
Economic Theory
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
Presentation
Preface
List of Figures
1 The Universe of Economics
	1.1 Introduction
	1.2 The World of Economics
	1.3 The Economic Universe
	1.4 The Density of Wealth
	1.5 Singularities in Communications
	1.6 Singular Wealth
	1.7 In the End it will be Chaos
	1.8 When Light Bowed to Ceará
2 History of the Economic Formation
	2.1 Introduction
	2.2 The Ancient Feudal System and the Formation of the State
	2.3 The End of the Feudal System and the Start of Democracy
	2.4 The Development of the Post Feudal Economy
	2.5 The Current Feudal System
	2.6 About Tulips and Virtual Currency
3 On Capitalism
	3.1 Introduction
	3.2 Capitalism for Beginners
	3.3 Economic Determinism and Wealth and Income Distribution
	3.4 Virtual Companies Exploit the Real Work of Users
	3.5 Virtual Companies Violate Classic Economics
	3.6 How the Money of Private Companies Leave the Country
	3.7 Corruption is Endemic in the Private
	3.8 Tricks for Avoiding Taxes
4 The Main Concepts in Economics
	4.1 Introduction
	4.2 Definitions Associated with Economics
		4.2.1 Macroeconomics
		4.2.2 Microeconomics
		4.2.3 Econometrics
	4.3 Activities of Economic Nature
	4.4 Economic Conditions
	4.5 Economic Sectors
	4.6 Utility and Value
	4.7 Productive Economic Activity
5 Basic Mathematical Analysis
	5.1 Basic Concepts in Economy
	5.2 Demand Curves
	5.3 Supply Curves
	5.4 Average and Marginal Costs
	5.5 Market Equilibrium
	5.6 Simple and Compound Interests
	5.7 Income Distribution
	5.8 Consumption and Savings
	5.9 Model for the Future Price of Stock
6 Microeconomics
	6.1 Introduction
	6.2 The Concept of Microeconomics
		6.2.1 The Consumer and the Demand Curve
		6.2.2 The Company and the Supply Curve
		6.2.3 Production and the Cost Curve
	6.3 Costs Associated to Managing Companies
	6.4 Definitions Associated to the Capital of a Company
	6.5 Company Accounting
	6.6 Business Companies
	6.7 Operations in the Stock Market
	6.8 Financial Institutions
	6.9 Competition or Not
7 Macroeconomics
	7.1 Introduction
	7.2 Concept of Macroeconomics
	7.3 Operations in the Governmental Scope
	7.4 About Currency
		7.4.1 Cryptocurrency
		7.4.2 Financial Operations with Currency
	7.5 Public Accounts
	7.6 Public Debt
	7.7 Taxation
	7.8 Remuneration of Capital
	7.9 Profit and Capital Investment
	7.10 Current Market Economy
	7.11 Economic Policies
	7.12 Income and Revenue
	7.13 International Transactions
8 Taxes and Income Distribution
	8.1 Introduction
	8.2 About Fair Taxes
	8.3 Income Distribution in the Economy
	8.4 We Are All Bank Employees
	8.5 About Paintings and Computers
	8.6 The Material and the Virtual
	8.7 Economic Differentials for Development
	8.8 Mobile Economy
9 Analysis of the Economic Results of Privatization
	9.1 Introduction
	9.2 Privatization in Great Britain
	9.3 Privatization in Brazil
	9.4 The Companies that Dominate the Telecommunications Sector in Brazil
	9.5 Lack of Investment Paralyzed Brazil
	9.6 About Privatizations, Service Charges and Taxes
	9.7 Whom Privatizations Served?
	9.8 Anatel Played the Operator\'s Game
10 Mathematical Economy
	10.1 Introduction
	10.2 Econometrics
	10.3 Stochastic Modelling of the Productive Process
	10.4 Statistical Correlation Analysis
		10.4.1 The Autocorrelation Function
		10.4.2 Stationarity
			10.4.2.1 Wide Sense Stationarity
			10.4.2.2 Stationarity Degrees
			10.4.2.3 Ergodic Processes
		10.4.3 Properties of the Autocorrelation
		10.4.4 Model for the Prediction of Random Series
	10.5 Study of Losses in the Production Line of a Large Footwear Company
		10.5.1 Introduction
		10.5.2 Production System
		10.5.3 Performance Comparison
		10.5.4 Study of Statistical Correlation
		10.5.5 Analysis Using Stochastic Integration
		10.5.6 Stochastic Model for the Reject Problem
		10.5.7 Diagnostic
		10.5.8 Obtained Results
	10.6 Evaluation of the Stochastic Models
	10.7 The Influence of the Combination of Errors
	10.8 Model to Estimate the Number, Lifespan or Creation Rate
		10.8.1 Introduction
		10.8.2 Methodology
		10.8.3 The Stochastic Model
		10.8.4 Results
		10.8.5 Discussion
A Probability Theory
	A.1 Basic Probability Theory
	A.2 The Axioms of Probability
	A.3 Bayes\' Theorem
	A.4 Random Variables
	A.5 Algebra Generated by a Random Variable
	A.6 Lebesgue Measure and Probability
	A.7 Cumulative Distribution Function
		A.7.1 Moments of a Random Variable
		A.7.2 Properties Associated to the Expected Value
		A.7.3 Definition of the Most Important Moments
	A.8 Functions of Random Variables
	A.9 General Formula for Transformation
	A.10 Discrete Distributions
	A.11 Characteristic Function
	A.12 Conditional Distribution
	A.13 Useful Distributions and Applications
	A.14 Joint Random Variables
		A.14.1 An Extension of the Concept of Random Variables
	A.15 Properties of Probability Distributions
	A.16 Moments in Two Dimensions
	A.17 Conditional Moments
	A.18 Two-Dimensional Characteristic Function
	A.19 Sum of Random Variables
	A.20 Function of Joint Random Variables
B Glossary of Economics
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
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