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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.

200 Series Titles


Money, Time and Rationality in Max Weber Austrian Connections

Money, Time and Rationality in Max Weber: Austrian Connections

1st Edition

By Stephen Parsons
April 24, 2014

This unique study into the roots of Max Weber's Political Economy, is an intriguing read and a valuable contribution to the Weberian literature. Parsons argues that Weber's analysis is highly influenced by the Austrian School of Economics and the relationship between his critique of centrally ...

The Canon in the History of Economics Critical Essays

The Canon in the History of Economics: Critical Essays

1st Edition

Edited By Michalis Psalidopoulos
April 24, 2014

The construction and the role of the economic canon, the accepted list of great works and great authors, has been the subject of much recent literary and historical debate. By contrast, the concept of the canon has been largely dormant in the study of the history of economics, with the canonical ...

Economics Broadly Considered Essays in Honour of Warren J. Samuels

Economics Broadly Considered: Essays in Honour of Warren J. Samuels

1st Edition

Edited By Jeff E. Biddle, John B Davis, Steven G Medema
April 15, 2014

Warren J. Samuels has been a prominent figure in the study of economics in the twentieth century. This book brings together essays by leading scholars in the areas of economics in which Samuels has made his most important contributions: the history of economic thought, economic methodology, and ...

Cambridge Controversies in Capital Theory A Methodological Analysis

Cambridge Controversies in Capital Theory: A Methodological Analysis

1st Edition

By Jack Birner
April 10, 2014

This book explains the debate over the Cambridge controversies of the 1960s and 1970s. In a compelling and comprehensive argument, Birner discusses the main contributions to the controversy in a series of case studies. He gradually develops a methodological model of idealizations that explains both...

The History Of Game Theory, Volume 1 From the Beginnings to 1945

The History Of Game Theory, Volume 1: From the Beginnings to 1945

1st Edition

By Mary-Ann Dimand, Robert W Dimand
April 10, 2014

Game Theory - the formal modelling of conflict and cooperation - first emerged as a recognized field with a publication of John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern's Theory of Games and Economic Behaviour in 1944. Since then, game-theoretic thinking about choice of strategies and the interdependence ...

Towards An Unknown Marx A Commentary on the Manuscripts of 1861-63

Towards An Unknown Marx: A Commentary on the Manuscripts of 1861-63

1st Edition

By Enrique Dussel
April 09, 2014

This book is the first complete commentary on Marx's manuscripts of 1861-63, works that guide our understanding of fundamental concepts such as 'surplus-value' and 'production price'. The recent publication of Marx's writings in their entirety has been a seminal event in Marxian scholarship. The ...

Ancient Economic Thought

Ancient Economic Thought

1st Edition

By Betsy Price
April 02, 2014

This book explores the interrelationship between economic practice and religion, ethics and social structure in a number of ancient cultures, including ancient East Indian, Hebraic, Greek, Hellenistic, Roman and emerging European cultures....

Evolution of Austrian Economics From Menger to Lachmann

Evolution of Austrian Economics: From Menger to Lachmann

1st Edition

By Sandye Gloria-Palermo
April 02, 2014

This book argues, against the dominant orthodoxy in the history of economic thought, for the originality of Carl Menger's contribution to the development of the Austrian school of economics. Situating the evolution of Menger's thought in the tradition of classical political economy, the author ...

Family Fictions and Family Facts Harriet Martineau, Adolphe Quetelet and the Population Question in England 1798-1859

Family Fictions and Family Facts: Harriet Martineau, Adolphe Quetelet and the Population Question in England 1798-1859

1st Edition

By Brian Cooper
April 02, 2014

Classical political economy rests on the assumption that the market and the family are overlapping and mutually dependent realms, dominated in turn by economic men and domestic women. Here, Brian Cooper explores the role of economic theory in 'normalizing' the family in the first half of the ...

Keynes and the Neoclassical Synthesis Einsteinian versus Newtonian Macroeconomics

Keynes and the Neoclassical Synthesis: Einsteinian versus Newtonian Macroeconomics

1st Edition

By Dario Togati
April 02, 2014

This remarkable volume provides a critical assessment of Neoclassical Synthesis, long regarded as the standard interpretation of Keynes. Taking issue with this orthodoxy, the author offers a unique interpretation of the foundation of modern macroeconomics, arguing that the subject derives from the ...

Money and Growth Selected Papers of Allyn Abbott Young

Money and Growth: Selected Papers of Allyn Abbott Young

1st Edition

Edited By Perry G Mehrling, Roger J Sandilands
April 02, 2014

Allyn Young is one of the central figures in the development of American economic thought, and is one of the originators of modern endogenous growth theory. This book allows full appreciation of the full extent of Young's work because many of his most significant contributions are buried in obscure...

The Contribution of Joseph A. Schumpeter to Economics

The Contribution of Joseph A. Schumpeter to Economics

1st Edition

Edited By Richard Arena, Cécile Dangel-Hagnauer
April 02, 2014

This collection constitutes an examination of Schumpeter's legacy that is wider than any yet attempted. As one of the key economists of the twentieth century, Schumpeter's economics is viewed in the context of its relation to purer Austrian theories of the free market, Keynesian macroeconomics, the...

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