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 Bibliography of Female Economic Thought up to 1940
1st Edition
By Kirsten Madden, Michele Pujol, Janet Seiz
November 14, 2012
Contributions to female economic thought have come from prolific scholars, leading social reformers, economic journalists and government officials along with many other women who contributed only one or two works to the field. It is perhaps for this reason that a comprehensive bibliographic ...
Knut Wicksell on the Causes of Poverty and its Remedy
1st Edition
By Mats Lundahl
October 19, 2012
Knut Wicksell is arguably the greatest Swedish social scientist of all time, and poverty was a theme that occupied him all his life. Indeed, it was probably Wicksell's interest in poverty that was the critical factor in drawing him away from his purely mathematical background towards a greater ...
Essays in the History of Economics
1st Edition
Edited
By William Henderson, Kirk D. Johnson, Marianne F. Johnson, Warren J. Samuels
September 25, 2012
Under the impressive editorship of Warren Samuels et al, this book addresses the state of the history of economic thought today. An important contribution to the study of the history of economics, this eagerly-awaited book will develop an unsurprisingly large following....
Economic Development and Social Change
1st Edition
Edited
By Yiorgos Stathakis, Gianni Vaggi
September 18, 2012
Some of the greatest thinkers in the history of economic thought have been instrumental in advancing the study of development economics. In this volume, leading scholars are brought together to illuminate this tradition, with particular emphasis on the question of growth and development. Divided ...
The Experiment in the History of Economics
1st Edition
Edited
By Philippe Fontaine, Robert Leonard
September 18, 2012
Throughout the history of economic ideas, it has often been asserted that experimentation is impossible, yet, in fact, history shows that the idea of ‘experimentation’ has always been important, and as such has been interpreted and put to use in many ways. Rich in historical detail, the essays in ...
Economics, Economists and Expectations: From Microfoundations to Macroapplications
1st Edition
By William Darity, Robert Leeson, Warren Young
September 10, 2012
The concept of rational expectations has played a hugely important role in economics over the years. Dealing with the origins and development of modern approaches to expectations in micro and macroeconomics, this book makes use of primary sources and previously unpublished material from such ...
Evolution of the Market Process: Austrian and Swedish Economics
1st Edition
Edited
By Michel Bellet, Sandye Gloria-Palermo, Abdallah Zouache
September 10, 2012
This impressive volume centres on the relationship between Austrian and Swedish economics. Exploring themes such as capital theory, expectations, policy, market theory and the history of economic thought, this book makes for an interesting read. It will appeal across a wide range of disciplines ...
History and Political Economy: Essays in Honour of P.D. Groenewegan
1st Edition
Edited
By Tony Aspromourgos, John Lodewijks
September 10, 2012
Impressive and authoritative, this essential book brings together a collection of essays in honour of Peter Groenewegen, one of the most distinguished historians of economic thought of a generation. His work on a wide range of economic theorists such as Adam Smith, François Quesnay and Alfred ...
Money and Exchange: Folktales and Reality
1st Edition
By Sasan Fayazmanesh
September 10, 2012
Whether a theoretical system is realistic or not has been a concern in economics, particularly in monetary theory, over the past century. Following John R. Hicks’ proposal that a realistic monetary theory could be constructed along an evolutionary path, starting with the workings of a real market, ...
Consumption as an Investment
1st Edition
By Cosimo Perrotta
July 11, 2012
Perrotta explores and charts the changing place of consumption as a source of investment in production and growth within economic writings from ancient history to the present. This ambitious project is carried out with great skill, vigour and originality and will help to bring consumption studies ...
Economists in Cambridge: A Study through their Correspondence, 1907-1946
1st Edition
By Maria Cristina Marcuzzo, Annalisa Rosselli
July 11, 2012
The University of Cambridge has produced more Nobel Prize-winning economists than the whole of France. This impressive book collects together largely unpublished correspondence from some of the twentieth century's key figures including Keynes, Robinson, Hayek and Sraffa....
Jean-Baptiste Say and the Classical Canon in Economics: The British Connection in French Classicism
1st Edition
By Samuel Hollander
July 11, 2012
This book explores the perceived paradigmatic conflict within British classical economics between the so called 'Ricardo School' and the contemporary French Economics of Jean-Baptiste Say. Samuel Hollander provides the reader with extensive evidence, utilizing all editions of Say's main texts and ...