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.
Political Economy and Industrialism: Banks in Saint-Simonian Economic Thought
1st Edition
By Gilles Jacoud
November 08, 2013
The French philosopher and economist Saint-Simon (1760–1825) propounded a new political, economic and social order in which the quest for economic efficiency and social justice led to putting the workers at the forefront. On his death, his disciples worked to preserve his thought and developed it ...
Political Economy, Public Policy and Monetary Economics: Ludwig von Mises and the Austrian Tradition
1st Edition
By Richard M. Ebeling
November 08, 2013
Austrian economist, Ludwig von Mises, was one of the most original and controversial economists of the 20th century, both as a defender of free-market liberalism and a leading opponent of socialism and the interventionist-welfare state. He was both the grant designer of a political economy of ...
Problems and Methods of Econometrics: The Poincaré Lectures of Ragnar Frisch 1933
1st Edition
Edited
By Olav Bjerkholt, Ragnar Frisch, Ariane Dupont-Kieffer
November 08, 2013
The development of economics changed dramatically during the twentieth century with the emergence of econometrics, macroeconomics and a more scientific approach in general. One of the key individuals in the transformation of economics was Ragnar Frisch, professor at the University of Oslo and the ...
Production, Distribution and Trade: Alternative Perspectives: Essays in honour of Sergio Parrinello
1st Edition
Edited
By Adriano Birolo, Duncan Foley, Heinz D. Kurz, Bertram Schefold, Ian Steedman
November 08, 2013
This collection brings together significant new contributions to the Sraffa--based theories of production and distribution, from post-Keynesian arguments concerning monetary and macro economics to the history of thought and methodology. All of the authors are well established authorities in their ...
Rosa Luxemburg and the Critique of Political Economy
1st Edition
Edited
By Riccardo Bellofiore
November 08, 2013
This book analyzes the important contributions of Rosa Luxemburg to economic theory as well as devoting some space to her background as a left social-democratic politician and her personality. The book's main focus of attention is the theory of capitalist development and the theory of ...
The Ideas of Ronald H. Coase: Market failure and planning by contract for sustainable development
1st Edition
By Lawrence W. C Lai
November 08, 2013
This book is the first work dedicated to the key ideas of Nobel Laureate Ronald Coase on pollution and public goods with sustainable development in mind from the perspective of an economist-town planner. The seminal contributions of Ronald Coase, foretold in the form of the Coase Theorem by another...
The Making of the Classical Theory of Economic Growth
1st Edition
By Anthony Brewer
November 08, 2013
This book collects together for the first time Anthony Brewer's work on the origins and development of the theory of economic growth from its eighteenth-century beginnings to its dominance in economic thinking in the nineteenth century. The key to the origins of the theory is that writers before ...
The Origins of David Hume's Economics
1st Edition
By William Henderson
November 08, 2013
The book covers Hume’s biographical development; his self appraisal as a 'man of letters’; his philosophical writings with emphasis on their direct and indirect economic content; his self-aware criticism of his approach to the Treatise and the development of his rhetorical understanding of the ...
Adam Smith and the Economy of the Passions
1st Edition
By Jan Horst Keppler
November 07, 2013
The fertility of Adam Smith’s work stems from a paradoxical structure where the pursuit of economic self-interest and wealth accumulation serve wider social objectives. The incentive for this wealth accumulation comes from a desire for social recognition or "sympathy" – the need to recognise ...
General Equilibrium Analysis: A Century after Walras
1st Edition
Edited
By Pascal Bridel
November 07, 2013
2010 marks the hundredth anniversary of the death of Léon Walras, the brilliant originator and first formaliser of general equilibrium theory – one of the pillars of modern economic theory. In advancing much derided practical solutions Walras also displayed more concern for the problems of living ...
Marshall, Marshallians and Industrial Economics
1st Edition
Edited
By Tiziano Raffaelli, Tamotsu Nishizawa, Simon Cook
November 07, 2013
The four sections of the book deal in succession with Marshall’s key ideas on the subject, the wider context of his thought in which they are to be read, their later development by some of his pupils, and their revival in contemporary economics. The first and last sections work together to ...
F.A. Hayek as a Political Economist: Economic Analysis and Values
1st Edition
Edited
By Thierry Aimar, Jack Birner, Pierre Garrouste
October 23, 2013
Whilst some of Hayek's contributions to economics are purely analytical, others are inspired by a broader vision that could be characterized as political economy. In this authorative volume, some of the world's leading Hayek scholars examine the link between these two essential components of ...