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.
A History of Economic Science in Japan: The Internationalization of Economics in the Twentieth Century
1st Edition
By Aiko Ikeo
April 21, 2016
Japanese economists began publishing scientific papers in renowned journals including Econometrica in the 1950s and made significant contributions to the sophistication of general equilibrium analysis by an intensive use of a variety of mathematical instruments. They contributed significantly to ...
Socialism & Marginalism in Economics 1870 - 1930
1st Edition
Edited
By Ian Steedman
January 20, 2016
The rise to dominance of marginalist economics coincided with a major increase in the spread of socialist ideas. As many socialist and Marxist thinkers were preocuppied with economic questions this was scarcely a development that could be ignored. Socialists either had to defend Marxist economics...
Classics and Moderns in Economics Volume I: Essays on Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Economic Thought
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Groenewegen
December 01, 2015
Peter Groenewegen's reputation as a chronicler of the history of economics is unparalleled. Building on his respected collection on eighteenth century economics, this new book focuses on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, reprinting essays on classical and modern economics. Several of ...
Minor Marshallians and Alfred Marshall: An Evaluation
1st Edition
By Peter Groenewegen
November 05, 2015
Alfred Marshall, Professor of Economics at Cambridge University (1885-1908), produced a distinguished a distinguished crop of students, many of them leaders in the economics profession in subsequent generations. Pigou, Keynes and Denis Robertson are undoubtedly the most famous of these Marshall ‘...
Austrian Economics in Debate
1st Edition
By Willem Keizer, Bert Tieben, Rudy Van Zijp
September 08, 2015
This book presents essays by an outstanding team of international specialists and covers a wide range of topics, including (inter alia) the relationships between the Austrian and Swedish theories of the business cycle, the on-going debates between Austrians and (Post) Keynesians, Schumpeter's '...
Contributions to the History of Economic Thought: Essays in Honour of R.D.C. Black
1st Edition
Edited
By Antoin Murphy, Renee Prendergast
June 08, 2015
Featuring original contributions from some of the leading contemporary figures in the history of economic thought, this book offers new perspectives on key topics, from Smith's Wealth of Nations to the Jevonian Revolution. Drawing inspiration from the life and work of R.D.C. Black, formerly ...
Historical Perspectives on Macroeconomics: Sixty Years After the 'General Theory'
1st Edition
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By Philippe Fontaine, Albert Jolink
June 08, 2015
Since the publication of Keynes's General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money in 1936, macroeconomic theory has altered considerably. Each author in this volume focuses on an issue which either preceded, accompanied or followed the 'Keynesian Revolution' and helped to shape economics in ...
Considerations on the Fundamental Principles of Pure Political Economy
1st Edition
By Vilfredo Pareto, Roberto Marchionatti, Fiorenzo Mornati
May 21, 2015
Between May 1892 and October 1893 the Giornale degli Economisti published Vilfredo Pareto’s Considerazioni sui principi fondamentali dell’economia politica pura in five parts. Viewed in its entirety, the outcome is essentially a classic monograph on the fundamental issues in pure economic theory in...
Subjectivism and Objectivism in the History of Economic Thought
1st Edition
Edited
By Yagi Kiichiro, Yukihiro Ikeda
May 21, 2015
This book investigates the tensions between subjectivism and objectivism in the history of economics. The book looks at the works of Adam Smith, Carl Menger, Leon Walras, William Stanley Jevons, Oskar Morgenstern, Ludwig Mises, Piero Sraffa, and so on. The book highlights the ...
Eighteenth Century Economics
1st Edition
By Peter Groenewegen
May 07, 2015
Peter Groenewegen is one of the world's foremost scholars of eighteenth century economics - the era that saw the effective 'mainstreaming' of the discipline in the work of Smith, Turgot and Quesnay. This collection of essays amounts to the definitive guide to eighteenth century economics and is a ...
Pareto, Economics and Society: The Mechanical Analogy
1st Edition
By Michael McLure
May 07, 2015
Vilfredo Pareto was one of the great systems theorists of the twentieth century, embracing economics, psychology, sociology and politics. In this important work, Michael McLure takes as his subject of study the rapport between Pareto's economic and sociological theory, and consequently, illuminates...
Reflections on the Classical Canon in Economics: Essays in Honour of Samuel Hollander
1st Edition
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By Evelyn L. Forget, Sandra Peart
May 07, 2015
In this discipline-defining volume, some of the leading international scholars in the history of economic thought re-examine the concepts of 'classical economics' and the 'canon', illuminating the roots and evolution of the contemporary discipline....