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.
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 ...
Classical Economics, Keynes and Money
1st Edition
Edited
By John Eatwell, Pasquale Commendatore, Neri Salvadori
January 29, 2024
Classical Economics, Keynes and Money casts new light on an approach to economic theory and policy that combines the modern classical theory of prices and income distribution with a Keynesian analysis of money and finance. Structured in four parts, the work considers issues within classical ...
Immanuel Kant and Utilitarian Ethics
1st Edition
By Samuel Hollander
January 29, 2024
Adopting a view of utilitarian ethics in which motivation in the public interest takes on greater weight than is generally appreciated, this book explores the extent to which the philosophy of Immanuel Kant is consistent with this nuanced version of utilitarianism. Kant’s requirement that full ...
Neo-Marxism and Post-Keynesian Economics: From Kalecki to Sraffa and Joan Robinson
1st Edition
By Ludo Cuyvers
January 29, 2024
Piero Sraffa and Joan Robinson, both iconic Cambridge economists, were highly influenced by the economic theory of Karl Marx, and integrated important elements of Marx’s economic system into their theories. This book argues, based on published and unpublished documents, that the work of Sraffa and ...