Economics and Humanities
About the Book Series
The ‘Economics and Humanities’ series presents the economic wisdom of the humanities and arts. Its volumes gather the economic senses sheltered and revealed by some of the most excellent sources within philosophy, poetry, art, and story-telling. By re-rooting economics in its original domain these contributions allow economic phenomena and their meanings to come into the open more fully; indeed, they allow to ask anew the question "What is economics?". Economic truth is thus shown to arise from the Human rather than the Market.
Readers will gain a foundational understanding of a humanities-based economics and find their economic sensibility enriched. They should turn to this series if they are interested in questions such as: What are the economic consequences of rooting economic Truth in the Human? What is the purpose of a humanities-based economics? What is the proper meaning of the "oikos", and how does it arise? What are the true meanings of wealth and poverty, gain and loss, capital and productivity? In what sense is economic reasoning with words more fundamental than reasoning with numbers? What is the dimension and measure of human dwelling in the material world?
These volumes address themselves to all those who are interested in sources and foundations for economic wisdom. Students and academics who are fundamentally dissatisfied with the state of economics and worried that its crisis undermines society will find this series of interest.
Economy and Theology: Cusanus’s Theory of Value
1st Edition
By Agnieszka Kijewska
December 26, 2025
Economy and Theology: Cusanus's Theory of Value, a study from the field of the history of philosophy, responds to the present-day interest in what is referred to as economic theology. This study aims to show that value (valor), one of the fundamental concepts of contemporary philosophy and ...
Capitalism and Christianity: Origins, Spirit and Betrayal of the Market Economy
1st Edition
By Luigino Bruni
September 29, 2025
Drawing on debates about the religious nature and origins of contemporary European capitalism, this book argues for a distinction between a Northern/Protestant and a Southern/Catholic spirit of capitalism. The first part of the book explores the history of the relationship between capitalism and ...
Economics and Semiotics
1st Edition
Edited
By Stratos Myrogiannis, Constantinos Repapis
June 30, 2025
Everything in our world can be interpreted as a sign. This opens up the question: How do we proceed from semantics to pragmatics, from theory to practice and vice versa? What is the nature of the relation between interpretation, action and reality? And, what can we learn by viewing economics and ...
Capitalism as Megamachine: A New Historical, Legal and Political Approach
1st Edition
By Jacques Richard
January 28, 2025
The concept of a “megamachine” – a closed system operating to a pre-established utilitarian purpose which results in the machinisation of humanity – has existed in various forms since at least the late 19th century. This book builds on previous attempts to define and analyse the machine and argues ...
The Culture of Money: Implications for Contemporary Economics
1st Edition
Edited
By Esther Schomacher, Jan Söffner
November 29, 2024
It is widely known that – at least in current societies - culture depends on money. Less attention has been given to the contrary fact: money also depends on culture. In its very foundation - negotiations, values, exchanges, debts and obligations, contracts and laws – money's functioning is tied to...
Transformation, Agency and the Economy: The Case for a Grounded Economics
1st Edition
By Lukas Bäuerle
November 29, 2024
Producing, buying, selling, inventing, destroying, caring, imagining, failing – with their everyday practices, people bring about what we call ‘the economy’. In order to both understand and transform these practices in the context of mounting socio-ecological challenges, respective knowledge on ...
A New Economic Anthropology
1st Edition
By François Régis Mahieu
October 09, 2024
Traditionally economic anthropology has been studied by sociologists, anthropologists, and philosophers seeking to highlight the social foundations of economic action. Meanwhile, anthropological questions have remained largely untreated in economics, despite the prominence given to the individual ...
Mapping Mainstream Economics: Genealogical Foundations of Alternativity
1st Edition
By Georg N. Schäfer, Sören E. Schuster
January 29, 2024
Mapping Mainstream Economics: Genealogical Foundations of Alternativity seeks to establish a definition of the mainstream economics, and by extension the alternatives to it, by adopting a genealogical approach: tracing the methodological development of the economic mainstream through its ancestry, ...
Foundations for a Humanitarian Economy: Re-thinking Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy
1st Edition
By William D. Bishop
September 25, 2023
The modern global economy and discipline of economics place mathematical calculation above human concern. However, a re-reading of Boethius’ The Consolation of Philosophy can positively highlight the contrast in values and spirit of the early medieval European world with our own scientific age. ...
Capital in the History of Accounting and Economic Thought: Capitalism, Ecology and Democracy
1st Edition
By Jacques Richard, Alexandre Rambaud
May 31, 2023
Starting with the first "scientific" economists such as Cantillon (1755) and Quesnay (1758) and ending with Piketty (2019), this book explores the treatment of the concept of capital in the history of accounting and economic thought. The work provides a rare juxtaposition of the reasoning, ...
Economics, Accounting and the True Nature of Capitalism: Capitalism, Ecology and Democracy
1st Edition
By Jacques Richard, Alexandre Rambaud
May 31, 2023
Almost all economists, whether classical, neoclassical or Marxist, have failed in their analyses of capitalism to consider the underpinning systems of accounting. This book draws attention to this lacuna, focusing specifically on the concept of capital: a major concept that dominates all teaching ...
Humanitarian Ecological Economics and Accounting: Capitalism, Ecology and Democracy
1st Edition
By Jacques Richard, Alexandre Rambaud
May 31, 2023
The strict conversation of financial capital allows accountants to preserve capitalism in its current form. Thus, building a more humane economy will require a new accounting model. Humanitarian Ecological Economics and Accounting: Capitalism, Ecology and Democracy argues for the adoption of ...