Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
About the Book Series
Economics continues to draw inspiration from the ideas of past economists. This series provides an arena for current debate in the study of the history of economics. Adhering to no single methodology, it includes volumes which explore the ideas of individual economists, major schools of thought, and the evolution of key ideas and theories within economic analysis.
Markets in the Evolution of Economics: Remaking the Mission of the Economist
1st Edition
By Rudi Verburg
July 10, 2026
In recent years, scholars from many disciplines have contributed to the literature on the ‘proper’ role of markets but they often overlook the contribution of many economists who have also called for a broader understanding of the market beyond pricing. This book explores the place of the market in...
The Medieval Debate on Money and Interest: A Comparative Perspective on Ethics and Economics
1st Edition
By Guido Tortorella Esposito, Stefano Figuera
April 09, 2026
This book examines the medieval debate on the role of money and credit in the Islamic and Western Christian worlds. Starting from Aristotle's vision of the ethical and egalitarian use of wealth, fundamental to both Islamic and Christian thinkers, it highlights how the two visions of money and ...
Markets in the History of Political Economy: Between Mechanism and Purpose
1st Edition
By Rudi Verburg
March 11, 2026
Most contemporary economists understand markets as purely price-making systems, ignoring the role of markets as relational systems that frame our way of life and determine the kind of society we live in. This book weaves both of these elements together to present a history of markets which accepts ...
Economic Ideas Across Borders: A History of German Influence on Turkish Economics
1st Edition
Edited
By Jakob Kapeller, M. Erdem Özgür
December 31, 2025
Exploring the cross-cultural exchange of ideas between German and Turkish scholars, policymakers, and institutions, this book sheds light on how German theories were interpreted and applied in Turkey during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Situating the flow of ideas within broader patterns ...
Environment and Ecology in the History of Economic Thought: Reassessing the Legacy of the Classics
1st Edition
Edited
By Vitor Eduardo Schincariol
December 26, 2025
This volume proposes a reconsideration of ecological and environmental aspects of the work and ideas of various heterodox authors and traditions in the history of economic thought, including the field of economic development. Many of the contributors to this book focus on thinkers and works which ...
Schumpeter’s General Theory of Capitalism
1st Edition
By Tristan Velardo
December 26, 2025
Joseph A. Schumpeter made multiple contributions to economic science and beyond. Drawing on this wide range of writings, this book argues that Schumpeter provided a theoretical account of capitalism as a total phenomenon. It methodically reconstructs the “general theory” of capitalism present in ...
The Economic Thought of Hilaire Belloc: A Christian Alternative to the Servile State
1st Edition
By Alfonso Díaz Vera
December 26, 2025
Hilaire Belloc’s thinking on the economy constitutes, by its originality and acuity, a heterodox approach of the greatest interest in addressing the economic problems of his time and those of our own. Belloc’s main interest as a writer were on economics and history, and his works were praised by ...
A History of Economic Thought at the Frankfurt Institute: Beyond the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School, 1923-1945
1st Edition
By Ali Ahmad
December 19, 2025
The Frankfurt Institute continues to command the interest of a wide range of scholars working in history, philosophy, sociology, and political science. Yet, the prevailing narrative about the Institute overlooks a crucial component of its history: the economic theories developed by its lesser-known...
Adam Smith and the East India Company
1st Edition
By Mark Donoghue
December 11, 2025
This book examines Adam Smith’s perspectives on the India question during a pivotal juncture when the East India Company evolved from a commercial enterprise into a de facto imperial authority in India. Smith astutely recognised the significance of this transition and anticipated its potential to ...
Market Economists Beyond the West: The Agents of Peripheral Liberalism, 1970–2020
1st Edition
Edited
By Tobias Rupprecht
December 05, 2025
This book offers a survey of ideas and practices of economic liberalism beyond Western Europe and North America. It traces the intellectual development and political agency of pro-market economists in Eastern Europe, East Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and West Africa, from the 1970s onwards...
Adam Smith’s Incomplete System
1st Edition
By Sergio Cremaschi
November 21, 2025
On his deathbed, Adam Smith ordered the burning of two unfinished works on epistemology and politics, fearing that his image as a philosopher would be tarnished and his ideas misinterpreted. This book argues that the inability to complete these two works is symptomatic of tensions for which Smith ...
A Contemporary Comprehensive Economic Science: The Economic Thought and Legacy of Maffeo Pantaleoni
1st Edition
Edited
By Stefano Spalletti, Francesca Spigarelli
November 18, 2025
Covering Maffeo Pantaleoni’s key areas of contribution to economics, this book provides a comprehensive study of one of the foremost economic thinkers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Called the ‘prince’ of Italian economists by Piero Sraffa, among others, Maffeo Pantaleoni (1857–1924) ...