Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
About the Book Series
Economics continues to draw inspiration from the ideas of past economists. This series provides an arena for current debate in the study of the history of economics. Adhering to no single methodology, it includes volumes which explore the ideas of individual economists, major schools of thought, and the evolution of key ideas and theories within economic analysis.
Monetary Economics, Banking and Policy: Expanding Economic Thought to Meet Contemporary Challenges
1st Edition
Edited
By Penelope Hawkins, Ioana Negru
July 29, 2024
This edited collection seeks to advance thinking on money and the monetary nature of the economy, macroeconomic analysis and economic policy, setting it within the context of current scholarship and global socioeconomic concerns, and the crisis in the economics discipline. A key aim is to highlight...
The Early History of Economics in the United States: The Influence of the German Historical School of Economics on Teaching and Theory
1st Edition
By Birsen Filip
July 29, 2024
Since the latter half of the 20th century, the economics departments of American universities were internationally renowned for providing competitive and advanced levels of education. However, from the 1870s up until the beginning of WWI, German universities held international supremacy when it ...
Classical Economics, Keynes and Money
1st Edition
Edited
By John Eatwell, Pasquale Commendatore, Neri Salvadori
January 29, 2024
Classical Economics, Keynes and Money casts new light on an approach to economic theory and policy that combines the modern classical theory of prices and income distribution with a Keynesian analysis of money and finance. Structured in four parts, the work considers issues within classical ...
Immanuel Kant and Utilitarian Ethics
1st Edition
By Samuel Hollander
January 29, 2024
Adopting a view of utilitarian ethics in which motivation in the public interest takes on greater weight than is generally appreciated, this book explores the extent to which the philosophy of Immanuel Kant is consistent with this nuanced version of utilitarianism. Kant’s requirement that full ...
Neo-Marxism and Post-Keynesian Economics: From Kalecki to Sraffa and Joan Robinson
1st Edition
By Ludo Cuyvers
January 29, 2024
Piero Sraffa and Joan Robinson, both iconic Cambridge economists, were highly influenced by the economic theory of Karl Marx, and integrated important elements of Marx’s economic system into their theories. This book argues, based on published and unpublished documents, that the work of Sraffa and ...
Theology, Morality and Adam Smith
1st Edition
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By Jordan J. Ballor, Cornelis van der Kooi
January 29, 2024
This work details the theological sources and moral significance of the life and work of the Scottish moral philosopher Adam Smith (1723–1790). The panel of contributors deepens our understanding of Adam Smith in his religious and theological context and the significance of this understanding for ...
Adam Smith and The Wealth of Nations in Spain: A History of Reception, Dissemination, Adaptation and Application, 1777–1840
1st Edition
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By Jesús Astigarraga, Juan Zabalza
September 25, 2023
Adam Smith’s An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations was the product of the rich tradition of the Scottish Enlightenment but the book’s fame immediately spread across the whole of Europe. This book looks at the long journey of Smith’s ideas from Scotland to peninsular Spain, ...
Competition, Value and Distribution in Classical Economics: Studies in Long-Period Analysis
1st Edition
By Heinz D. Kurz, Neri Salvadori
September 25, 2023
Drawing in particular on the work of Sraffa, Smith, Ricardo and Marx, the essays in this volume explore the characteristic features of the Classical economists’ approach to economic problems, and the renewal of interest in that approach in modern times. In recent years, new material has been made ...
The Theory of Transaction in Institutional Economics: A History
1st Edition
By Massimiliano Vatiero
September 25, 2023
Despite abundant literature on transaction costs, there is little to no in-depth analysis regarding what the transaction is or how it works. Drawing on both Old and New Institutional Economics and on a variety of interdisciplinary sources, this monograph traces the history of the meaning of ...
David Ricardo. An Intellectual Biography
1st Edition
By Sergio Cremaschi
May 31, 2023
David Ricardo has been acclaimed – or vilified – for merits he would never have dreamt of, or sins for which he was entirely innocent. Entrenched mythology labels him as a utilitarian economist, an enemy of the working class, an impractical theorist, a scientist with ‘no philosophy at all’ and the ...
European and Chinese Histories of Economic Thought: Theories and Images of Good Governance
1st Edition
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By Iwo Amelung, Bertram Schefold
May 31, 2023
The Western literature on the history of Chinese economic thought is sparse, and comparisons with the history of Western economic thought even more so. This pioneering book brings together Western and Chinese scholars to reflect on the historical evolution of economic thought in Europe and China. ...
Humanity and Nature in Economic Thought: Searching for the Organic Origins of the Economy
1st Edition
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By Gábor Bíró
May 31, 2023
Humanity and Nature in Economic Thought: Searching for the Organic Origins of the Economy argues that organic elements seen as incompatible with rational homo economicus have been left out of, or downplayed in, mainstream histories of economic thought. The chapters show that organic aspects (that...