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Series: Economics as Social Theory
The marginalist revolution of the late nineteenth century consolidated what Karl Marx and Piero Sraffa called ‘vulgar economy’, bringing with it an emphasis on a scarcity theory that replaced the classical surplus theory. However, the classical political economy of Adam Smith and David Ricardo has...
To Be Published October 21st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
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 This book provides the English-speaking world with a first critical edition of an unpublished version of Einaudi’s most important epistemological essay. The issues analysed here lie at the core of...
To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Library and Information Science
The term ‘systems theory’ is used to characterize a set of disparate yet related approaches to fields as varied as information theory, cybernetics, biology, sociology, history, literature, and philosophy. What unites each of these traditions of systems theory is a shared focus on general features...
To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge
Series: The Graz Schumpeter Lectures
To Be Published December 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Economics as Social Theory
The book provides an historical introduction to the methodology of economics through the eyes of (political) economists. It starts with John Stuart Mill's seminal essay on the definition and method of political economy of 1836 and then shows how the actual practice of political economists changed...
To Be Published December 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
Although there are various books looking at the history of economics, the historiography of economics, or how we approach, write, think about, and talk about the history of economics, is a relatively unexamined topic. Most histories of economics run through "the canon" picking up idea after idea as...
To Be Published January 30th 2014 by Routledge
Ingrid Rima’s history of economic thought textbook, Development of Economic Analysis has introduced several generations of students to the philosophy behind the growth of economics as a discipline. The subject is notable for having spawned a number of competing schools of thought and although the...
To Be Published January 31st 2014 by Routledge
Series: Rethinking Globalizations
This book explores the conceptual, methodological and praxeological elements of dialectical analysis in world politics. As dialectics has remained an under-theorised analytical tool in international relations (IR) theory and the social sciences as a whole, this volume will provide a necessary...
To Be Published January 31st 2014 by Routledge
Series: Economics as Social Theory
In recent years a group of heterodox economists largely based or trained at Cambridge University have argued that explicit ontological analysis and elaboration can provide a key to the fruitful transformation of economics. The group have shown s that through sustained ontological analysis,...
To Be Published February 4th 2014 by Routledge
Series: New Studies in Critical Realism and Education
The book will argue that Marxism underlaboured by critical realism makes a significant difference not only to how education is viewed but also (potentially) in the practical realisation of education’s revolutionary impulse. It will build upon the work of the thesis by advancing what was imminent...
To Be Published February 28th 2014 by Routledge
