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 Homo Economicus: The Nature of the Moral in Economic Theory
1st Edition
By William Dixon, David Wilson
July 03, 2014
A key issue in economic discourse today is the relation (or lack of it) between economic behaviour and morality. Few (presumably) would want to deny that human beings are in some sense moral or ethical creatures, but the devil is in the detail. Should we think of economic behaviour as an ...
Fighting Market Failure: Collected Essays in the Cambridge Tradition of Economics
1st Edition
By Maria Cristina Marcuzzo
July 03, 2014
This collection brings together fifteen essays published between 1994 and 2008 which all look into the contribution of a remarkable group of economists known as the "Cambridge school" or the "Cambridge Keynesians". The people involved are better defined as a "group" rather than a "school", to ...
A History of Econometrics in France: From Nature to Models
1st Edition
By Philippe Le Gall
June 19, 2014
This text challenges the traditional view of the history of econometrics and provides a more complete story. In doing so, the book sheds light on the hitherto under-researched contribution of French thinkers to econometrics. Fascinating and authoritative, it is a comprehensive overview of what...
Classical Political Economy and Modern Theory: Essays in Honour of Heinz Kurz
1st Edition
Edited
By Neri Salvadori, Christian Gehrke, Ian Steedman, Richard Sturn
June 19, 2014
Heinz Kurz is recognised internationally as a leading economic theorist and a foremost historian of economic thought. This book pays tribute to his outstanding contributions by bringing together a unique collection of new essays by distinguished economists from around the world. Classical ...
Crises and Cycles in Economic Dictionaries and Encyclopaedias
1st Edition
Edited
By Daniele Besomi
June 19, 2014
This book investigates from the perspective of the major economic dictionaries the notions of economic crisis and cycles. It gives an extensive summary of a number of significant entries on this subject, with an introductory essay to each entry placing them (and the dictionary to which they belong)...
E.E. Slutsky as Economist and Mathematician: Crossing the Limits of Knowledge
1st Edition
By Vincent Barnett
June 19, 2014
E.E. Slutsky is perhaps the Russian/Ukrainian economist most quoted by mainstream economists today. This is the first research monograph to examine the life and work of the internationally-renowned economist and mathematician. It does so from both a ‘history of economics’ perspective and a ‘history...
Generations of Economists
1st Edition
By David Collard
June 19, 2014
This book focuses on the interaction between practising economists and previous generations of economists. Because economic problems, such as crashes, tend to recur and are only partially understood, it may be profitable read the work of previous generations in a collaborative spirit. Sometimes ...
Hayek, Mill and the Liberal Tradition
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrew Farrant
June 19, 2014
A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via www.tandfebooks.com as well as the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license and is part of the OAPEN-UK research project. This ...
New Essays on Pareto’s Economic Theory
1st Edition
Edited
By Luigino Bruni, Aldo Montesano
June 19, 2014
Pareto's Manual of Political Economy, first published in 1905, introduced the analytical approach which has characterised a significant part of twentieth century economic theory. In particular, the Manual examined the ordinal representation of the individual choice, the issue of the general ...
Stalin's Economist: The Economic Contributions of Jenö Varga
1st Edition
By Andre Mommen
June 19, 2014
This book analyses the contribution of Eugen (Jenő) Varga (1879-1964) on Marxist-Leninist economic theory as well as the influence he exercised on Stalin’s foreign policy and through the Comintern on the international communist movement. During the Hungarian Councils’ Republic of 1919 Varga was one...
The Economic Reader: Textbooks, Manuals and the Dissemination of the Economic Sciences during the 19th and Early 20th Centuries.
1st Edition
Edited
By Massimo Augello, Marco E.L. Guidi
June 19, 2014
The book studies the origins and evolution of economic textbooks in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, up to the turning point represented by Paul Samuelson’s Economics (1948), which became the template for all the textbooks of the postwar period. The case studies included in the book ...
The Evolution of Economic Theory: Essays in Honour of Bertram Schefold
1st Edition
Edited
By Volker Caspari
June 19, 2014
Bertram Schefold is recognized internationally as an outstanding economist. He has made major contributions to the development of economic theory and particularly to economic thought. His contributions to economic theory include his work on Sraffian economics and its implications for the theory of ...