Analyzing the new directions that subdisciplines of economics have taken in the
face of modern economic challenges, these essays represent invention and
discovery in the areas of information, macroeconomics and public policies,
international trade and development, finance, business, contracts, law, gaming,
and government. They offer not only a wealth of factual information on the
current state of the economy, but also theoretical and empirical innovations
that conceptualize reality and values in different ways from their predecessors.