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.
Economics and Interdisciplinary Exchange
1st Edition
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By Guido Erreygers
December 22, 2014
Economists have not always been on friendly terms with scientists from other fields. More than once, economists have been accused of 'imperialism' or criticized for neglecting the insights obtained in other fields. The history of economics, however, yields manifold examples of interdisciplinary '...
Economics as Literature
1st Edition
By William Henderson
December 22, 2014
A rich vein of economics writings which runs through the nineteenth century and beyond is now largely ignored because its authors were women or because they favoured literary over scientific forms. Economics as Literature re-examines some of the most interesting texts from within this tradition.The...
Piero Sraffa: His Life, Thought and Cultural Heritage
1st Edition
By Alessandro Roncaglia
December 22, 2014
This is a lively, intellectual biography of a leading protagonist of 20th century culture and his relations with other protagonists, such as Gramsci, Keynes and Wittgenstein. The book includes an authoritative interpretation of his main work Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities, a ...
The Founding of Institutional Economics
1st Edition
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By Warren Samuels
December 22, 2014
Institutional economics has been a major part of economic thought for the whole of the twentieth century, and today remains crucial to an understanding of the development of heterodox economics. The two principal publications that founded the school were Veblen's The Theory of the Leisure Class and...
The Development of Economics in Western Europe Since 1945
1st Edition
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By A. W. (Bob) Coats
December 01, 2014
Are there distinct European traditions in economics? Is modern economics homogenous and American?The volume includes case studies of the UK, Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Greece. Each of these examines the conditions relating to the supply of, and ...
William Stanley Jevons and the Cutting Edge of Economics
1st Edition
By Bert Mosselmans
November 10, 2014
The impressive young scholar Bert Mosselmans, analyzing the theory and policy of Jevons, a major figure in the field of the history of economics, has put together a volume with broad international appeal, particularly in Europe, North America and Japan, that offers a synthetic approach to Jevons’ ...
John Ruskin's Political Economy
1st Edition
By William Henderson
September 11, 2014
This volume offers an exciting new reading of John Ruskin's economic and social criticism, based on recent research into rhetoric in economics. Willie Henderson uses notions derived from literary criticism, the rhetorical turn in economics and more conventional approaches to historical economic ...
Money and Markets: A Doctrinal Approach
1st Edition
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By Maria Cristina Marcuzzo, Alberto Giacomin
August 12, 2014
This book brings together fourteen essays by leading authors in the field of economics to explore the relationship between money and markets throughout economic theory and history, providing readers with the key to understanding fundamental issues in monetary theory and other important debates in ...
Piero Sraffa's Political Economy: A Centenary Estimate
1st Edition
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By Terenzio Cozzi, Roberto Marchionatti
August 12, 2014
A century after his birth, this volume presents a re-assessment of the life and work of Piero Sraffa, one of the great economists of the twentieth century. From his anti-Marshallian articles of 1925 and 1926 to his classic work on the theory of capital, Production of Commodities by Means of ...
The Analysis of Linear Economic Systems: Father Maurice Potron’s Pioneering Works
1st Edition
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By Christian Bidard, Guido Erreygers
August 12, 2014
Maurice Potron (1872-1942), a French Jesuit mathematician, constructed and analyzed a highly original, but virtually unknown economic model. This book presents translated versions of all his economic writings, preceded by a long introduction which sketches his life and environment based on ...
The Evolutionist Economics of Leon Walras
1st Edition
By Albert Jolink
August 12, 2014
This study offers a new perspective of Walras' pure, applied and social economics. Through archival research at the University of Lausanne, Jolink considers Walras' ideas on philosophy and philosophy of science based on a newly constructed taxonomy. Walras' work is placed in a broader context by ...
The Rhetoric of the Right: Language Change and the Spread of the Market
1st Edition
By David George
August 12, 2014
This study seeks to demonstrate the subtle ways in which changes in the language associated with economic issues are reflective of a gradual but quantifiable conservative ideological shift. In this rigorous analysis, David George uses as his data a century of word usage within The New York Times, ...