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Chapter 1: Logical and Philosophical Foundations of Complexity -- Chapter 2: Foundations of Complex Behavioral Economics -- Chapter 3: The Complex Dynamics of Social Interactions -- Chapter 4: Econophysics, Entropy, and Complexity -- Chapter 5: Econophysics and Entropy in Dynamically Complex Urban/Regional Systems -- Chapter 6: Complex Ecological-Economic Systems and their Governance Issues -- Chapter 7: Complexity and the Future of Economics -- Bibliography.

While the United States continues to recover from the 2008 Great Recession, the country still faces unprecedented inequality as increasing numbers of poor families struggle to get by with little assistance from the government. Holes in the Safety Net: Federalism and Poverty offers a grounded look at how states and the federal government provide assistance to poor people. With chapters covering everything from welfare reform to recent efforts by states to impose work requirements on Medicaid recipients, the book avoids unnecessary jargon and instead focuses on how programs operate in practice. This timely work should be read by anyone who cares about poverty, rising inequality, and the relationship between state, local, and federal levels of government.

This book examines the dynamics shaping the economic process of economic liberalisation in Indonesia since the mid-1980's. Much writing on the process of economic liberalisation in developing countries views economic liberalisation as the victory of economic rationality over political and social interests. In contrast, this book argues that economic liberalisation should not be understood in these terms, but rather in the way that political social interests shape processes of economic reform in both a positive and negative sense. Specifically, Rosser argues that economic liberalisation needs t

Acknowledgements -- Preface -- The Market Economy -- Production Costs -- Theories of the Firm -- Perfect Competitio -- Monopoly Oligopoly -- Monopolistic Competition and Contestable Markets -- Consumer Theory Factor Markets -- The Marxian Theory of the Firm and the Market Economy -- Welfare Economics -- Appendix -- Questions.