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.
Macroeconomic Theory and the Eurozone Crisis
1st Edition
Edited
By Alain Alcouffe, Maurice Baslé, Monika Poettinger
September 30, 2020
The financial crisis of 2007 required the economics discipline to thoroughly re-evaluate its prevailing theories about economic cycles and economic growth. With a focus on Europe, this volume identifies the latest strands of research on business cycles, monetary theory, the evolution of social ...
Money, Finance and Crises in Economic History: The Long-Term Impact of Economic Ideas
1st Edition
Edited
By Annalisa Rosselli, Nerio Naldi, Eleonora Sanfilippo
September 30, 2020
Recently, students and scholars have expressed dissatisfaction with the current state of economics and have called for the reintroduction of historical perspectives into economic thinking.Supporting the idea that fruitful lessons can be drawn from the work of past economists, this volume brings ...
Otto Neurath and the History of Economics
1st Edition
By Michael Turk
September 30, 2020
Although Otto Neurath left his mark across an array of fields in the first half of the twentieth century, he was trained as an economist and wrote extensively about economics. He questioned the philosophical foundations of economic concepts, the fuzziness of economic terminology, the unwarranted ...
Revisiting Classical Economics: Studies in Long-Period Analysis
1st Edition
By Heinz Kurz, Neri Salvadori
September 30, 2020
The financial crisis and the economic crisis that followed triggered a crisis in the subject of economics, as it is typically being taught today especially in macroeconomics and related fields. A renewed interest in earlier authors, especially the classical economists from Adam Smith to David ...
Richard Cantillon's Essay on the Nature of Trade in General: A Variorum Edition
1st Edition
By Richard Cantillon, Richard van den Berg
September 30, 2020
The Essay on the Nature of Trade in General was written in the early 1730s by Richard Cantillon, a speculator and banker who had made a vast fortune during the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles of 1719-20. The work remained unpublished for about two decades, but when it appeared posthumously in ...
Schumpeter’s Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy: A Twenty-First Century Agenda
1st Edition
Edited
By Leonardo Burlamaqui, Rainer Kattel
September 30, 2020
2017 marked the seventy-fifth anniversary of Schumpeter’s Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, a work acknowledged as one of the most insightful books written in the twentieth century. It retains a contemporary quality, and still invites criticisms, new interpretations, and extensions and across ...
The Economic Thought of Friedrich List
1st Edition
Edited
By Harald Hagemann, Stephan Seiter, Eugen Wendler
September 30, 2020
As the world grapples with increased globalization and technological change, Friedrich List’s work appears more relevant than ever before. His theory of "productive powers" and his argument for protecting infant industries give us a valuable way of looking at innovation systems, winners and losers ...
The Economic Thought of Henry Calvert Simons: Crown Prince of the Chicago School
1st Edition
By G.R. Steele
September 30, 2020
Drawing on years of research, Gerald Steele delves into the diverse ideas of Henry Simons, a neglected economist whose work in the 1930s on monetary and financial instability is extremely relevant to today’s debates about commercial bank credit, the interdependence of fiscal and monetary policy, ...
The Economic Thought of William Petty: Exploring the Colonialist Roots of Economics
1st Edition
By Hugh Goodacre
September 30, 2020
William Petty (1623-1687), long recognised as a founding father of English political economy, was actively involved in the military-colonial administration of Ireland following its invasion by Oliver Cromwell, and to the end of his days continued to devise schemes for securing England’s continued ...
The Foundations of Political Economy and Social Reform: Economy and Society in Eighteenth Century France
1st Edition
Edited
By Ryuzo Kuroki, Yusuke Ando
September 30, 2020
This book brings together leading contributors to explore the development of political economy in eighteenth century France from an interdisciplinary perspective, in particular the ideas for social reform proposed before the Revolution. Political economy in the Eighteenth century encompassed not ...
The History of Money and Monetary Arrangements: Insights from the Baltic and North Seas Region
1st Edition
By Thomas Marmefelt
September 30, 2020
Today, most money is credit money, created by commercial banks. While credit can finance innovation, excessive credit can lead to boom/bust cycles, such as the recent financial crisis. This highlights how the organization of our monetary system is crucial to stability. One way to achieve this is by...
Unproductive Labour in Political Economy: The History of an Idea
1st Edition
By Cosimo Perrotta
September 30, 2020
Contemporary mainstream economists see social wealth as the sum of individual incomes, but for three centuries many economists saw wealth as consisting of the public and private resources of a nation. This led them to explore the idea of unproductive labour, which provides a nation with an ...