Political Economics: History of Economic Thought
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The History of Economic Thought
A Reader; Second Edition
A From the ancients to the moderns, questions of economic theory and policy have been an important part of intellectual and public debate, engaging the attention of some of history’s greatest minds. This book brings together readings from more than two thousand years of writings on economic...
Published May 9th 2013 by Routledge
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Reconstructing Keynesian Macroeconomics Volume 2
Integrated Approaches
Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
This book represents the second of three volumes offering a complete reinterpretation and restructuring of Keynesian macroeconomics and a detailed investigation of the disequilibrium adjustment processes characterizing the financial, the goods and the labour markets and their interaction. In this...
Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
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Reconstructing Keynesian Macroeconomics Volume 3
Financial Markets and Banking
Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
This book represents the third of three volumes offering a complete reinterpretation and restructuring of Keynesian macroeconomics and a detailed investigation of the disequilibrium adjustment processes characterizing the financial, the goods and the labour markets and their interaction. The third...
To Be Published February 28th 2014 by Routledge
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Contributions to the History of Economic Thought
Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
This is the opus magnum of one of the worlds most renowned experts on the history of economic thought. Bertram Schefold’s choice of authors for the "Klassiker" series, which he has edited since 1991, and his comments on the various re-edited works are proof of his highly original and...
To Be Published March 2nd 2014 by Routledge
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Economic Development and Global Crisis
The Latin American Economy in Historical Perspective
Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
This edited volume uses a history of economic thought perspective to explore the evolving role of Latin America within the context of today’s globalization, examining in particular the region’s resilience in the face of the global financial crisis. During the global financial meltdown of 2008-9,...
To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge
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Economic Justice and Liberty
The Social Philosophy in John Stuart Mill’s Utilitarianism
Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
This new book reopens the debate on theories of justice between utilitarian theorists and scholars from other camps. John Rawls’ 1971 publication of A Theory of Justice put forward a devastating challenge to the long-established dominance of utilitarianism within political and moral philosophy, and...
To Be Published July 2nd 2013 by Routledge
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Essays on Classical and Marxian Political Economy
Collected Essays IV
Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
Samuel Hollander’s work has been provoking debate for over four decades. This book brings together key contributions of recent years, in addition to some brand new pieces. The essays are introduced by a Preface in which Hollander reflects on his past work and reactions to it. Highlights include two...
Published January 30th 2013 by Routledge
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The Formation of Marx's 'Capital'
An Essay in Intellectual Biography
Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
Despite the predictions that consigned it to eternal oblivion, Karl Marx’s thought has returned to the limelight in recent years. Marx's Capital, in particular, has been the focus of widespread interest in the wake of the recent international financial crisis. Though among the most important...
To Be Published September 29th 2013 by Routledge
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The History of Ancient Chinese Economic Thought
Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
This new volume from a leading group of international authors and contributors provides a nuanced exploration of the history of Chinese economic thought. Opening with an introduction that sets the chapters in context for Western readership, the contributors cover such key issues as research...
To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge
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The History of Complexity Economics
Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
The last two decades have witnessed the growing influence of complexity analyses on the physical, biological and social sciences. Economics has not remained indifferent to the power of nonlinear interactions to generate complex structures and an astonishing range of potential behaviours. Indeed,...
To Be Published September 30th 2013 by Routledge
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Interdisciplinary Economics
Kenneth E. Boulding’s Engagement in the Sciences
Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
Kenneth Boulding was a prolific writer across so many different fields that not only is he often much referred to and cited, he is considered a core member of many of these fields. Boulding is the quintessential interdisciplinary scholar. He died in 1993, but he has left a legacy in economics,...
Published May 8th 2013 by Routledge
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Jean-Baptiste Say
Revolutionary, Entrepreneur, Economist
Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
This volume is the first full-length biography of Jean-Baptiste Say (1767-1832), the most famous French classical economist. During his lifetime Say actively took part in three revolutions: the French Revolution, the Industrial Revolution and the establishment of economics as an academic...
Published November 20th 2012 by Routledge
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Keynes and Modern Economics
Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
It is a little over seventy years since John Maynard Keynes produced his magnum opus, The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money. Keynes' staggering achievement has been to remain relevant to economics and other disciplines even today and this book reflects that with an examination on...
Published July 18th 2012 by Routledge
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Keynes and Friedman on Laissez-Faire and Planning
‘Where to draw the line?’
Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
The 2008 crisis has revived debates on the relevance of laissez-faire, and thus on the role of the State in a modern economy. This volume offers a new exploration of the writings of Keynes and Friedman on this topic, highlighting not only the clear points of opposition between them, but also the...
Published April 29th 2013 by Routledge
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Marxist Political Economy
Essays in Retrieval: Selected Works of Geoff Pilling
Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
Geoff Pilling’s work shows that Marxist theory is relevant to those struggling to understand the problems of capitalist society today, and that the work not only of Marx and Engels but that of later Marxist theorists, including Lenin is worth studying. It also shows that to understand the problems...
Published July 2nd 2012 by Routledge
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Money and Banking in Jean-Baptiste Say’s Economic Thought
Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
The aim of this work is to make available to English-language readers a translation of Jean-Baptiste Say’s main texts on money and banking which were not at present accessible in English. The work includes chapters from his books taking into account the variants between the different editions,...
Published November 28th 2012 by Routledge
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A Re-Assessment of Aristotle’s Economic Thought
Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
In the past few years, the world has seen several financial and economic crises. Psychological, ethical and philosophical levels of causal analysis have been discussed, and in this context, an interest in classical thinkers has emerged. The work of Aristotle has influenced writers from Marx and...
To Be Published October 15th 2013 by Routledge
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On Abstract and Historical Hypotheses and on Value-Judgments in Economic Sciences
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
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Reinterpreting The Keynesian Revolution
Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
Various explanations have been put forward as to why the Keynesian Revolution in economics in the 1930s and 1940s took place. Some of these point to the temporal relevance of John Maynard Keynes's The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (1936), appearing, as it did, just a handful of...
Published November 15th 2012 by Routledge
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The Rhetoric of the Right
Language Change and the Spread of the Market
Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
This study seeks to demonstrate the subtle ways in which changes in the language associated with economic issues are reflective of a gradual but quantifiable conservative ideological shift. In this rigorous analysis, David George uses as his data a century of word usage within The New York Times,...
Published August 5th 2012 by Routledge
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The Paretian Tradition During the Interwar Period
From Dynamics to Growth
Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
This book analyzes the evolution of the approach of dynamic equilibrium between the two world wars. Focusing on its intellectual history, it describes precisely how the central idea of equilibrium dynamics was advanced and mathematically formulated in the years of high theory in an international...
To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge
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The Theory of Value and Distribution in Economics
Discussions between Pierangelo Garegnani and Paul Samuelson
Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
This new volume explores two alternative economic theories – the classical theory and the marginalist or neoclassical theory- through a discussion between two eminent economists, Pierangelo Garegnani and Paul Samuelson. The key themes of the volume are the difference in approaches to the...
Published July 18th 2012 by Routledge
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German Utility Theory
Analysis and Translations
Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
There is a standard belief that the modern theory of marginal utility originated in the UK with Jevons, Germany with Gossen, Austria with Menger and France with Walras. In this new book, John Chipman introduces new English translations of important writings from German economists such as Rau,...
To Be Published October 3rd 2013 by Routledge
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The Varieties of Economic Rationality
From Adam Smith to Contemporary Behavioural and Evolutionary Economics
Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
The concept of economic rationality is important for the historical evolution of Economics as a scientific discipline. The common idea about this concept -even between economists- is that it has a unique meaning which is universally accepted. This new volume argues that "economic rationality" is...
To Be Published July 30th 2013 by Routledge
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A History of Italian Economic Thought
Series: The Routledge History of Economic Thought
Italy has an incredibly rich tradition in the history of economic thought.Writers such as Ferdinando Galiani, Pietro Verri and Cesare Beccaria in mid-1700, Francesco Ferrara and Carlo Cattaneo in mid-1800, Maffeo Pantaleoni and Vilfredo Pareto between 1890 and 1920, and Luigi Einaudi and Piero...
To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge
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A History of Ottoman Economic Thought
Developments Before the 19th Century
Series: The Routledge History of Economic Thought
The Ottoman Empire (1299-1923) existed at the crossroads of the East and the West. Neither the history of Western Asia, nor that of Eastern Europe, can be fully understood without knowledge of the history of the Ottoman Empire. The question is often raised of whether or not economic thinking can...
To Be Published July 30th 2013 by Routledge
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A History of Management Thought
For the past three thousand years people have been thinking about the problems of management. This book shows how thinking about management has evolved and changed. It shows how changing social, political and technological forces have challenged people to think about management in new ways, and how...
Published December 19th 2011 by Routledge
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Women’s Economic Thought in the Eighteenth Century
In the history of economics, women writers were all but invisible until a few decades ago. Although much work has now been recuperated, the writings on economics of eighteenth-century women authors have yet to be brought fully to light. This new three-volume collection from Routledge remedies that...
To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge
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John Maynard Keynes
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
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The Reception and Diffusion of David Ricardo in Continental Europe and Japan
This book consists of a coherent and unique collection of chapters exploring the reception and diffusion of David Ricardo’s writings in different languages. The book highlights the similarities and differences between them. This book seeks to delineate the diffusion of Ricardo's theory in various...
To Be Published December 29th 2013 by Routledge