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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


Economic Development and Global Crisis The Latin American Economy in Historical Perspective

Economic Development and Global Crisis: The Latin American Economy in Historical Perspective

1st Edition

Edited By José Luís Cardoso, Maria Cristina Marcuzzo, María Eugenia Romero Sotelo
January 29, 2014

This edited collection uses a history of economic thought perspective to explore the evolving role of Latin America within the context of globalization. In particular, it examines the region’s resilience in the face of the global financial crisis. Economic Development and Global Crisis explains ...

Essential Writings of Thorstein Veblen

Essential Writings of Thorstein Veblen

1st Edition

Edited By Charles Camic, Geoffrey M Hodgson
December 12, 2013

The 38 selections in the volume include complete texts of all of Veblen’s major articles and book reviews from 1882 to 1914, plus key chapters from his books The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), The Theory of Business Enterprise (1904) and The Instinct of Workmanship (1914). These writings ...

A Dynamic Approach to Economic Theory The Yale Lectures of Ragnar Frisch, 1930

A Dynamic Approach to Economic Theory: The Yale Lectures of Ragnar Frisch, 1930

1st Edition

By Ragnar Frisch, Olav Bjerkholt, Duo Qin
November 08, 2013

This book contains a set of notes prepared by Ragnar Frisch for a lecture series that he delivered at Yale University in 1930. The lecture notes provide not only a valuable source document for the history of econometrics, but also a more systematic introduction to some of Frisch’s key ...

A History of Economic Theory Essays in honour of Takashi Negishi

A History of Economic Theory: Essays in honour of Takashi Negishi

1st Edition

Edited By Aiko Ikeo, Heinz D. Kurz
November 08, 2013

Few economists have been as prolific and wide-ranging as Takashi Negishi. Part of the "Hicksian" generation of Neo-Walrasian general equilibrium theorists, Negishi rose to prominence during the early 1960s with his work on the Neo-Walrasian system. Negishi's signature has been his attempt to ...

Criticisms of Classical Political Economy Menger, Austrian Economics and the German Historical School

Criticisms of Classical Political Economy: Menger, Austrian Economics and the German Historical School

1st Edition

By Gilles Campagnolo
November 08, 2013

The role of the German Historical School and of Carl Menger (founder of the Austrian School) is appraised in this new book. This important period of the history of economics is vital to understand how the discipline developed over the next half-century. Gilles Campagnolo has produced an impressive ...

Economic Theory and Economic Thought Essays in honour of Ian Steedman

Economic Theory and Economic Thought: Essays in honour of Ian Steedman

1st Edition

Edited By John Vint, J. Stanley Metcalfe, Heinz D. Kurz, Neri Salvadori, Paul Samuelson
November 08, 2013

Ian Steedman is recognised internationally as one of the leading economic theorists of his time and has made major contributions to the development of economic theory and economic thought, as substantiated by his work on Marx, Sraffa, Marshall, Jevons and Wicksteed. His contributions to economic ...

Frank Knight and the Chicago School in American Economics

Frank Knight and the Chicago School in American Economics

1st Edition

By Ross B. Emmett
November 08, 2013

Over the last twenty years, Ross B. Emmett has explored the work of Frank H. Knight, the philosopher of the Chicago School of economics. Knight occupies a paradoxical place in the history of Chicago economics: vital to the tradition’s teaching of price theory and the twentieth-century ...

Innovation, Knowledge and Growth Adam Smith, Schumpeter and the Moderns

Innovation, Knowledge and Growth: Adam Smith, Schumpeter and the Moderns

1st Edition

By Heinz Kurz
November 08, 2013

This book deals with the prime movers of socio-economic development, innovations and technical change, their origins, forms and effects. It contains a set of closely related chapters, some of which have been previously published as papers in scholarly journals...

Kalecki's Principle of Increasing Risk and Keynesian Economics

Kalecki's Principle of Increasing Risk and Keynesian Economics

1st Edition

By Tracy Mott
November 08, 2013

Kalecki was one of an important generation of Cambridge economists. Here, Tracy Mott's impressive book examines the relationship of Kalecki's economics to different economic areas and its relationship to major alternative schools, such as Keynes and Marx. Mott looks at Kalecki's 'principle of ...

Keynes and the British Humanist Tradition The Moral Purpose of the Market

Keynes and the British Humanist Tradition: The Moral Purpose of the Market

1st Edition

By David Andrews
November 08, 2013

Well-connected in academia, business and government, John Maynard Keynes was one of the most influential economic theorists of the twentieth century. It appears that his theories will be just as important for the twenty-first. As Keynes himself explained, his ideas throughout his life were ...

Keynes's Theoretical Development From the Tract to the General Theory

Keynes's Theoretical Development: From the Tract to the General Theory

1st Edition

By Toshiaki Hirai
November 08, 2013

Comprehensive and authoritative, this book, written by a recognized authority on the subject explores the contributions to modern economics by John Maynard Keynes and addresses neglected, yet crucial aspects of the genesis of Keynesian economics. In this book, the author elucidates Keynes’ ...

Open Economics Economics in relation to other disciplines

Open Economics: Economics in relation to other disciplines

1st Edition

Edited By Richard Arena, Sheila Dow, Matthias Klaes
November 08, 2013

Economics has developed into one of the most specialised social sciences. Yet at the same time, it shares its subject matter with other social sciences and humanities and its method of analysis has developed in close correspondence with the natural and life sciences. This book offers an up to date ...

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