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.
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
1st Edition
Edited
By John Vint, J. Stanley Metcalfe, Heinz 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
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
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
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
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
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
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 ...
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 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 ...