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This argues that it is really microeconomics' concern with the functioning of markets that underlies the theories which attempt to provide macroeconomics with microfoundations....
Published May 5th 1993 by Routledge
The impact of Swedish economists on the development of modern economic analysis has been profound. This volume contains twelve essays dealing with various aspects of the development of economics and economic thought from the mid 18th century to the middle of the 20th century. Most of the essays...
Published March 31st 1993 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy
In Keynes' General Theory of Interest Fiona Maclachlan rehabilitates the largely discredited liquidity preference theory of interest, providing an original and rigorously reasoned restatement of the theory. Her provocative book draws on the methodological tenets of the Austrian school and is...
Published March 3rd 1993 by Routledge
Perestroika was acclaimed in the west but brought empty shelves in the east. Why Perestroika Failed argues that this was inevitable because it was not based on a sound understanding of market and political processes. Even if the perestroika programme had been carried out to the full it would have...
Published January 13th 1993 by Routledge
In recent years it has become commonplace to downplay notions of an industrial revolution and argue instead that Britain's transformation was gradual and incremental. In The Industrial Revolution and the Atlantic Economy Brinley Thomas contests this view, arguing that change in the energy base and...
Published January 13th 1993 by Routledge
Series: Critical Assessments of Leading Economists
In this fourteenth critical assessment, Leon Walras, the founder of mathematical economics, demonstrates through a system of simultaneous equations that all prices and quantities are uniquely determined....
Published January 6th 1993 by Routledge
The concept of rationality is the heart of modern economics. Neo-classical theory seems unable to proceed without assuming a rational agent seeking to find the optimal means to a well defined end. Yet many find this uncritical treatment of rationality problematic. It takes little account of culture...
Published January 6th 1993 by Routledge
Series: Economics as Social Theory
The importance of language in economics has been neglected and dominated by techniques from other disciplines. This looks at the wider methological implications of language within economics in a practical and theoretical way...
Published January 6th 1993 by Routledge
Series: British and American Economic Essays
Published November 4th 1992 by Routledge
Richard Cantillon, writing fifty years before Adam Smith, was the first to see the economy as an interrelated whole, and the first to give a coherent account of how it works. This is the first comprehensive study of his economic theory and of his place in the history of the subject....
Published June 3rd 1992 by Routledge
