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.
The Economics of James Steuart
1st Edition
Edited
By Ramon Tortajada
February 25, 2014
The Economics of James Steuart reveals the particular importance of Steuart's work on monetary issues and highlights ways in which he prepared the ground for a new conception of economic relations. Featuring the work of an international team of leading scholars, this volume will be essential ...
Understanding 'Classical' Economics: Studies in Long Period Theory
1st Edition
By Heinz D. Kurz, Neri Salvadori
February 25, 2014
The 'classical' approach to economic problems, which can be traced back to Adam Smith and David Ricardo, has seen a remarkable revival in recent years. The essays in this collection argue that this approach holds the key to an explanation of important present day economic phenomena. Focusing on the...
Economic Careers: Economics and Economists in Britain 1930-1970
1st Edition
Edited
By Keith Tribe
February 14, 2014
In this volume fourteen senior economists describe their early introduction to the study of economics and their contribution to the development of academic economics in Britain. With experience covering a period stretching from the mid 1920s to the late 1960s, many of the contributors not only ...
Equilibrium and Economic Theory
1st Edition
By Giovanni Alfredo Caravale
February 14, 2014
This book considers the treatment of equilibrium by several of the most important schools of thought in economics, including: * neoclassical economics, * the neo-Ricardian economics, * Post-Keynesian economics - both those who follow Joan Robinson in denying any interpretative role to equilibrium ...
Studies in Social Economics
1st Edition
By Léon Walras
February 14, 2014
Léon Walras (1834–1910) is one of the four or five most important economic theorists in the history of the science. The present book is a complete English translation of the second edition (1936) of his Études d’économie sociale (1896), in which he applies economic theory to real problems, presents...
Studies in the History of French Political Economy: From Bodin to Walras
1st Edition
Edited
By Gilbert Faccarello
February 14, 2014
Studies in the History of French Political Economy considers the evolution of economic thought in France, from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. Gilbert Faccarello brings to the forefront those economists, themes and controversies which are important in the context of recent research, and ...
Hayek's Political Economy: The Socio-economics of Order
1st Edition
By Steve Fleetwood
February 13, 2014
In a society where no central agency coordinates the human activity of producing, selling and buying, why is there order and not chaos? This fundamental question has taxed generations of economists. Hayek's notion of spontaneous order goes some way to providing an answer.<BR>Hayek's ...
The Varieties of Economic Rationality: From Adam Smith to Contemporary Behavioural and Evolutionary Economics
1st Edition
By Michel Zouboulakis
January 31, 2014
The concept of economic rationality is important for the historical evolution of Economics as a scientific discipline. The common idea about this concept -even between economists- is that it has a unique meaning which is universally accepted. This new volume argues that "economic rationality" is ...
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
1st Edition
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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
1st Edition
By Jacques Robert, 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
1st Edition
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By Aiko Ikeo, Heinz 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 ...