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1. John Maynard Keynes

   By Vincent Barnett

   Series: Routledge Historical Biographies

   John Maynard Keynes is arguably the most important and influential economist of the twentieth century, and stands alongside Adam Smith and Karl Marx as one of the most famous economic thinkers of all time. Keynes’s radical reassessment of the accepted principles of economics led to new ways of...

   Published October 30th 2012 by Routledge
2. E.E. Slutsky as Economist and Mathematician

   Crossing the Limits of Knowledge

   By Vincent Barnett

   Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

   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...

   Published March 31st 2011 by Routledge
3. A History of Russian Economic Thought

   By Vincent Barnett

   Series: The Routledge History of Economic Thought

   The collapse of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic at the end of the 1980’s was conceived as a victory for capitalist democracy. Here, Vincent Barnett provides the first comprehensive account of the historical development of Russian and Soviet economic thought across the nineteenth and...

   Published July 30th 2009 by Routledge
4. Marx

   By Vincent Barnett

   Series: Routledge Historical Biographies

   Karl Marx has been portrayed in equal measure both as a political prophet who foresaw the end of capitalist exploitation, and as a populist Anti- Christ whose totalitarian legacy has cost millions of lives worldwide. This new biography looks beyond these caricatures in order to understand more...

   Published January 29th 2009 by Routledge
5. The Revolutionary Russian Economy, 1890-1940

   Ideas, Debates and Alternatives

   By Vincent Barnett

   The pre-revolutionary Russian economy was backward and stagnant. Whatever the criticisms of the economy post-revolution, the turnaround in terms of growth and output was staggering. This book looks at the alternatives to Stalin's reform program that had such tragic outcomes. Applying the ideas of...

   Published July 31st 2006 by Routledge