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.
Keynes and Friedman on Laissez-Faire and Planning: ‘Where to draw the line?’
1st Edition
By Sylvie Rivot
February 27, 2015
The 2008 crisis has revived debates on the relevance of laissez-faire, and thus on the role of the State in a modern economy. This volume offers a new exploration of the writings of Keynes and Friedman on this topic, highlighting not only the clear points of opposition between them, but also the ...
Money and Banking in Jean-Baptiste Say’s Economic Thought
1st Edition
By Gilles Jacoud
February 27, 2015
The aim of this work is to make available to English-language readers a translation of Jean-Baptiste Say’s main texts on money and banking which were not at present accessible in English. The work includes chapters from his books taking into account the variants between the different editions, ...
Reinterpreting The Keynesian Revolution
1st Edition
By Robert Cord
February 27, 2015
Various explanations have been put forward as to why the Keynesian Revolution in economics in the 1930s and 1940s took place. Some of these point to the temporal relevance of John Maynard Keynes's The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (1936), appearing, as it did, just a handful of ...
Classics and Moderns in Economics Volume II: Essays on Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Economic Thought
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Groenewegen
December 22, 2014
This second volume of essays on nineteenth and twentieth century economic thought, complements the first and continues the high standards of scholarship and academic rigour....
Economics and Interdisciplinary Exchange
1st Edition
Edited
By Guido Erreygers
December 22, 2014
Economists have not always been on friendly terms with scientists from other fields. More than once, economists have been accused of 'imperialism' or criticized for neglecting the insights obtained in other fields. The history of economics, however, yields manifold examples of interdisciplinary '...
Economics as Literature
1st Edition
By William Henderson
December 22, 2014
A rich vein of economics writings which runs through the nineteenth century and beyond is now largely ignored because its authors were women or because they favoured literary over scientific forms. Economics as Literature re-examines some of the most interesting texts from within this tradition.The...
Piero Sraffa: His Life, Thought and Cultural Heritage
1st Edition
By Alessandro Roncaglia
December 22, 2014
This is a lively, intellectual biography of a leading protagonist of 20th century culture and his relations with other protagonists, such as Gramsci, Keynes and Wittgenstein. The book includes an authoritative interpretation of his main work Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities, a ...
The Founding of Institutional Economics
1st Edition
Edited
By Warren Samuels
December 22, 2014
Institutional economics has been a major part of economic thought for the whole of the twentieth century, and today remains crucial to an understanding of the development of heterodox economics. The two principal publications that founded the school were Veblen's The Theory of the Leisure Class and...
The Development of Economics in Western Europe Since 1945
1st Edition
Edited
By A. W. (Bob) Coats
December 01, 2014
Are there distinct European traditions in economics? Is modern economics homogenous and American?The volume includes case studies of the UK, Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Greece. Each of these examines the conditions relating to the supply of, and ...
William Stanley Jevons and the Cutting Edge of Economics
1st Edition
By Bert Mosselmans
November 10, 2014
The impressive young scholar Bert Mosselmans, analyzing the theory and policy of Jevons, a major figure in the field of the history of economics, has put together a volume with broad international appeal, particularly in Europe, North America and Japan, that offers a synthetic approach to Jevons’ ...
John Ruskin's Political Economy
1st Edition
By William Henderson
September 11, 2014
This volume offers an exciting new reading of John Ruskin's economic and social criticism, based on recent research into rhetoric in economics. Willie Henderson uses notions derived from literary criticism, the rhetorical turn in economics and more conventional approaches to historical economic ...
Money and Markets: A Doctrinal Approach
1st Edition
Edited
By Maria Cristina Marcuzzo, Alberto Giacomin
August 12, 2014
This book brings together fourteen essays by leading authors in the field of economics to explore the relationship between money and markets throughout economic theory and history, providing readers with the key to understanding fundamental issues in monetary theory and other important debates in ...