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.
Great Economic Thinkers from the Classicals to the Moderns: Translations from the series Klassiker der National�konomie
1st Edition
By Bertram Schefold
December 12, 2019
This is the opus magnum of one of the world’s most renowned experts on the history of economic thought, Bertram Schefold. It contains commentaries from the series Klassiker der Nationalökonomie (Classics of Economics), which have been translated into English for the first time. Schefold’s choices ...
Jean-Baptiste Say and Political Economy
1st Edition
By Jean-Baptiste Say, Gilles Jacoud
December 12, 2019
Jean-Baptiste Say (1767–1832) was one of the first great economists to have laid down the foundations of economic science. Author of the famous Treatise on Political Economy in 1803, which was revised and re-edited on several occasions, he published numerous other works including a voluminous ...
Natural Law and the Origin of Political Economy: Samuel Pufendorf and the History of Economics
1st Edition
By Arild Saether
December 12, 2019
Samuel Pufendorf’s work on natural law and political economy was extensive and has been cited by several important figures in the history of economic thought. Yet his name is rarely mentioned in textbooks on the history of economic thought, the history of political science or the history of ...
On Abstract and Historical Hypotheses and on Value Judgments in Economic Sciences: Critical Edition, with an Introduction and Afterword by Paolo Silvestri
1st Edition
Edited
By Paolo Silvestri, Luigi Einaudi
December 12, 2019
Luigi Einaudi (1874-1961) was a leading liberal economist, economic historian and political figure. This book provides the English-speaking world with a first critical edition of Einaudi’s – hitherto unpublished – rewriting of one of his most unique and thoughtful essays.The relevance of this essay...
Ricardo on Money: A Reappraisal
1st Edition
By Ghislain Deleplace
December 12, 2019
Despite his achievements, David Ricardo’s views on money have often been misunderstood and underappreciated. His advanced ideas had to wait until the twentieth century to be applied, and most historians of economic thought continue to consider him as an obsolete orthodox. The last book devoted...
Schumpeter's Price Theory
1st Edition
By Harry Bloch
December 12, 2019
Joseph Alois Schumpeter has long been recognised as one of the great economists of the 20th Century, and his truly revolutionary approach to economic development continues to gain appreciation. This is particularly due to the emphasis he places on innovation and creative destruction as drivers of ...
The German Historical School and European Economic Thought
1st Edition
Edited
By José Luís Cardoso, Michalis Psalidopoulos
December 12, 2019
The financial crisis of 2008 has revived interest in economic scholarship from a historical perspective. The most in depth studies of the relationship between economics and history can be found in the work of the so-called German Historical School (GHS). The influence of the GHS in the USA and ...
The Idea of History in Constructing Economics
1st Edition
By Michael H. Turk
December 12, 2019
How scientific is economics? This question has often been framed by analogies and correspondences made between economics and other, seemingly more well-established scientific disciplines, starting with classical mechanics. At the same time economics is likely to be seen in opposition to or in ...
The Origins of Neoliberalism: Insights from economics and philosophy
1st Edition
By Giandomenica Becchio, Giovanni Leghissa
December 12, 2019
Neoliberalism is a doctrine that adopts a free market policy in a deregulated political framework. In recent years, neoliberalism has become increasingly prominent as a doctrine in Western society, and has been heavily discussed in both academia and the media.In The Origins of Neoliberalism, the ...
The Political Economy of Latin American Independence
1st Edition
Edited
By Alexandre Mendes Cunha, Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak
December 12, 2019
Although historians usually trace its origins to the Haitian Revolution of the late 18th Century, Latin American political, economic and cultural emancipation is still very much a work in progress. As new national identities were developed, fresh reflection and theorising was needed in order to ...
The Theory of the Firm: An overview of the economic mainstream
1st Edition
By Paul Walker
December 12, 2019
Firms are a ubiquitous feature of the economic landscape, with much of the activity undertaken within an economy taking place within their boundaries. Given the size of the contribution made by firms to economic activity, employment and growth, having a theoretical understanding of the nature and ...
Value and Prices in Russian Economic Thought: A journey inside the Russian synthesis, 1890�1920
1st Edition
By François Allisson
December 12, 2019
This book explores Russian synthesis that occurred in Russian economic thought between 1890 and 1920. This includes all the attempts at synthesis between classical political economy and marginalism; the labour theory of value and marginal utility; and value and prices. The various ways in which ...