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.
Transaction Economics of John R. Commons: Towards Reasonable Capitalism
1st Edition
By Shingo Takahashi
October 28, 2024
Takahashi reconstructs the key blocks of one of the founders of the institutional school, John R. Commons’ theories of the evolution of capitalism and of institutional change by taking the concept of transaction as a central point of departure. Commons’ theories continue to influence modern ...
Economic Policy and the History of Economic Thought
1st Edition
Edited
By Stavros Drakopoulos, Ioannis Katselidis
October 04, 2024
This book discusses key issues in economic policy in the context of the history of economic thought. Most of the current and past academic controversies in economics are, explicitly or implicitly, centred around the application and form of economic policy. This is particularly evident in the ...
Hegel on Ethics, the State and Public Policy: Comparisons with Immanuel Kant and Utilitarianism
1st Edition
By Samuel Hollander
September 20, 2024
Drawing on a wide range of Hegel’s writings, this book analyses the Hegelian position on ethical action. This position is systematically compared with that of Immanuel Kant, the comparison emphasizing Hegel’s insistence on a morality grounded in an ‘ethical’ context which essentially refers to the ...
Slavery and Colonialism in the History of Economic Thought: The Cases of France and Great Britain
1st Edition
By Simona Pisanelli
August 16, 2024
Atlantic slavery represents one of the blackest pages of human history. European powers not only colonised American lands but also brought African men and women to work as slaves on plantations. Intellectuals did not remain indifferent to this practice and – from the second half of the 18th century...
An Economic Philosophy of Production, Work and Consumption: A Transhistorical Framework
1st Edition
By Rodney Edvinsson
July 29, 2024
An Economic Philosophy of Production, Work and Consumption presents a new transhistorical framework of defining production, work and consumption. It shows that they all share the common feature of intentional physical transformation of something external to the agent, at some point in time. The ...
Economic Methodology, History and Pluralism: Expanding Economic Thought to Meet Contemporary Challenges
1st Edition
Edited
By Ioana Negru, Penelope Hawkins
July 29, 2024
Economic Methodology, History and Pluralism: Expanding Economic Thought to Meet Contemporary Challenges pays tribute to Emeritus Professor Sheila Dow (University of Stirling, Scotland). This volume focusses on the contributions of Dow to economic methodology, pluralism and the history of economic ...
Global Commerce in the Age of Enlightenment: Theories, Practices, and Institutions in the Eighteenth Century
1st Edition
By J. Bohorquez
July 29, 2024
Combining contextual, institutional, and global perspectives, this book evaluates the impact of international trade on eighteenth-century economic thought. It meticulously delineates how economic ideas and institutions flowed between North and South Europe and across the Indian and Atlantic Oceans ...
Liberalism and the Philosophy of Economics
1st Edition
By Tsutomu Hashimoto
July 29, 2024
Drawing on recent work in the contemporary philosophy of economics, this book presents new ideas on liberalism, including the concept of ‘growth-oriented liberalism’. Since the end of the Cold War, questions and definitions of liberalism have moved from the sphere of political systems (the ...
Metaphors in the History of Economic Thought: Crises, Business Cycles and Equilibrium
1st Edition
Edited
By Roberto Baranzini, Daniele Besomi
July 29, 2024
Metaphors in the History of Economic Thought: Crises, Business Cycles and Equilibrium explores the evolution of economic theorizing through the lens of metaphors. The edited volume sheds light on metaphors which have been used by a range of key thinkers and schools of thought to describe economic ...
Monetary Economics, Banking and Policy: Expanding Economic Thought to Meet Contemporary Challenges
1st Edition
Edited
By Penelope Hawkins, Ioana Negru
July 29, 2024
This edited collection seeks to advance thinking on money and the monetary nature of the economy, macroeconomic analysis and economic policy, setting it within the context of current scholarship and global socioeconomic concerns, and the crisis in the economics discipline. A key aim is to highlight...
The Early History of Economics in the United States: The Influence of the German Historical School of Economics on Teaching and Theory
1st Edition
By Birsen Filip
July 29, 2024
Since the latter half of the 20th century, the economics departments of American universities were internationally renowned for providing competitive and advanced levels of education. However, from the 1870s up until the beginning of WWI, German universities held international supremacy when it ...
Schumpeter’s General Theory of Capitalism
1st Edition
By Tristan Velardo
July 24, 2024
Joseph A. Schumpeter made multiple contributions to economic science and beyond. Drawing on this wide range of writings, this book argues that Schumpeter provided a theoretical account of capitalism as a total phenomenon. It methodically reconstructs the “general theory” of capitalism present in ...