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51. Austrian and German Economic Thought

    From Subjectivism to Social Evolution

    By Kiichiro Yagi

    Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

    This book intends to renovate the view of social sciences in the German-speaking world. It explores the intellectual tension in the social science in Austria and Germany in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. It deals with how the emergence of the new school (Austrian School)...

    Published February 3rd 2011 by Routledge
52. Essential Writings of Thorstein Veblen

    Edited by Charles Camic, Geoffrey M Hodgson

    Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

    The 38 selections in the volume include complete texts of all of Veblen’s major articles and book reviews from 1882 to 1914, plus key chapters from his books The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), The Theory of Business Enterprise (1904) and The Instinct of Workmanship (1914). These writings...

    Published December 16th 2010 by Routledge
53. Henry A. Abbati: Keynes' Forgotten Precursor

    Selected Writings

    Edited by Serena Di Gaspare

    Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

    Henry A. Abbati was not an economist by profession. After retiring from business, in 1924 he published his first book, The Unclaimed Wealth: How Money Stops Production in which he expounded his theory of ‘effective demand’ (terminology of his own) and its differences with respect to current...

    Published December 13th 2010 by Routledge
54. Generations of Economists

    By David Collard

    Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

    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...

    Published November 9th 2010 by Routledge
55. Hayek, Mill and the Liberal Tradition

    Edited by Andrew Farrant

    Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

    This book considers the relationship between Hayek and Mill, taking issues with Hayek’s criticism of Mill and providing a broader perspective of the liberal tradition. Featuring contributions from the likes of Ross Emmett, Leon Montes and Robert Garnett, these chapters ask whether Hayek had an...

    Published November 7th 2010 by Routledge
56. The Origins of David Hume's Economics

    By Willie Henderson

    Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

    The book covers Hume’s biographical development; his self appraisal as a 'man of letters’; his philosophical writings with emphasis on their direct and indirect economic content; his self-aware criticism of his approach to the Treatise and the development of his rhetorical understanding of the...

    Published September 16th 2010 by Routledge
57. The Making of the Classical Theory of Economic Growth

    By Anthony Brewer

    Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

    This book collects together for the first time Anthony Brewer's work on the origins and development of the theory of economic growth from its eighteenth-century beginnings to its dominance in economic thinking in the nineteenth century. The key to the origins of the theory is that writers before...

    Published August 10th 2010 by Routledge
58. The Analysis of Linear Economic Systems

    Father Maurice Potron’s Pioneering Works

    Edited by Christian Bidard, Guido Erreygers

    Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

    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...

    Published August 8th 2010 by Routledge
59. A Dynamic Approach to Economic Theory

    The Yale Lectures of Ragnar Frisch, 1930

    By Ragnar Frisch

    Edited by Olav Bjerkholt, Duo Qin

    Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

    This book contains a set of notes prepared by Ragnar Frisch for a lecture series that he delivered at Yale University in 1930. The lecture notes provide not only a valuable source document for the history of econometrics, but also a more systematic introduction to some of Frisch’s key...

    Published July 21st 2010 by Routledge
60. Adam Smith and the Economy of the Passions

    By Jan Horst Keppler

    Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

    The fertility of Adam Smith’s work stems from a paradoxical structure where the pursuit of economic self-interest and wealth accumulation serve wider social objectives. The incentive for this wealth accumulation comes from a desire for social recognition or "sympathy" – the need to recognise...

    Published July 11th 2010 by Routledge