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.
Piero Sraffa's Political Economy: A Centenary Estimate
1st Edition
Edited
By Terenzio Cozzi, Roberto Marchionatti
August 12, 2014
A century after his birth, this volume presents a re-assessment of the life and work of Piero Sraffa, one of the great economists of the twentieth century. From his anti-Marshallian articles of 1925 and 1926 to his classic work on the theory of capital, Production of Commodities by Means of ...
The Analysis of Linear Economic Systems: Father Maurice Potron’s Pioneering Works
1st Edition
Edited
By Christian Bidard, Guido Erreygers
August 12, 2014
Maurice Potron (1872-1942), a French Jesuit mathematician, constructed and analyzed a highly original, but virtually unknown economic model. This book presents translated versions of all his economic writings, preceded by a long introduction which sketches his life and environment based on ...
The Evolutionist Economics of Leon Walras
1st Edition
By Albert Jolink
August 12, 2014
This study offers a new perspective of Walras' pure, applied and social economics. Through archival research at the University of Lausanne, Jolink considers Walras' ideas on philosophy and philosophy of science based on a newly constructed taxonomy. Walras' work is placed in a broader context by ...
The Rhetoric of the Right: Language Change and the Spread of the Market
1st Edition
By David George
August 12, 2014
This study seeks to demonstrate the subtle ways in which changes in the language associated with economic issues are reflective of a gradual but quantifiable conservative ideological shift. In this rigorous analysis, David George uses as his data a century of word usage within The New York Times, ...
A History of Homo Economicus: The Nature of the Moral in Economic Theory
1st Edition
By William Dixon, David Wilson
July 03, 2014
A key issue in economic discourse today is the relation (or lack of it) between economic behaviour and morality. Few (presumably) would want to deny that human beings are in some sense moral or ethical creatures, but the devil is in the detail. Should we think of economic behaviour as an ...
Fighting Market Failure: Collected Essays in the Cambridge Tradition of Economics
1st Edition
By Maria Cristina Marcuzzo
July 03, 2014
This collection brings together fifteen essays published between 1994 and 2008 which all look into the contribution of a remarkable group of economists known as the "Cambridge school" or the "Cambridge Keynesians". The people involved are better defined as a "group" rather than a "school", to ...
A History of Econometrics in France: From Nature to Models
1st Edition
By Philippe Le Gall
June 19, 2014
This text challenges the traditional view of the history of econometrics and provides a more complete story. In doing so, the book sheds light on the hitherto under-researched contribution of French thinkers to econometrics. Fascinating and authoritative, it is a comprehensive overview of what...
Classical Political Economy and Modern Theory: Essays in Honour of Heinz Kurz
1st Edition
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By Neri Salvadori, Christian Gehrke, Ian Steedman, Richard Sturn
June 19, 2014
Heinz Kurz is recognised internationally as a leading economic theorist and a foremost historian of economic thought. This book pays tribute to his outstanding contributions by bringing together a unique collection of new essays by distinguished economists from around the world. Classical ...
Crises and Cycles in Economic Dictionaries and Encyclopaedias
1st Edition
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By Daniele Besomi
June 19, 2014
This book investigates from the perspective of the major economic dictionaries the notions of economic crisis and cycles. It gives an extensive summary of a number of significant entries on this subject, with an introductory essay to each entry placing them (and the dictionary to which they belong)...
E.E. Slutsky as Economist and Mathematician: Crossing the Limits of Knowledge
1st Edition
By Vincent Barnett
June 19, 2014
E.E. Slutsky is perhaps the Russian/Ukrainian economist most quoted by mainstream economists today. This is the first research monograph to examine the life and work of the internationally-renowned economist and mathematician. It does so from both a ‘history of economics’ perspective and a ‘history...
Generations of Economists
1st Edition
By David Collard
June 19, 2014
This book focuses on the interaction between practising economists and previous generations of economists. Because economic problems, such as crashes, tend to recur and are only partially understood, it may be profitable read the work of previous generations in a collaborative spirit. Sometimes ...
Hayek, Mill and the Liberal Tradition
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrew Farrant
June 19, 2014
A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via www.tandfebooks.com as well as the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license and is part of the OAPEN-UK research project. This ...