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.
The Macroeconomics of Malthus
1st Edition
By John Pullen
January 09, 2023
The views of Thomas Robert Malthus (1766–1834) on population, first published in his Essay on the Principle of Population, 1798, continue to be hotly debated, either acclaimed or opposed, as do his views on macroeconomics. There is a widely held view that his macroeconomics lacks coherence and is ...
Thomas Aquinas and the Civil Economy Tradition: The Mediterranean Spirit of Capitalism
1st Edition
By Paolo Santori
January 09, 2023
Delving into the history of economic thought, this book presents a picture of the Mediterranean spirit of capitalism, a tradition that has its protagonists in Thomas Aquinas and the eighteenth-century civil economy, and seeks to understand its presence and relevance for contemporary societies. The ...
Modern Japanese Economic Thought: An Intellectual History to 1950
1st Edition
By Kiichiro Yagi
December 30, 2022
Since the late-19th century, Japan has made remarkable strides in industrialization. Beginning with the economic vision of Miura Baien in the 18th century, and employing a detailed comparison with the West, this book delves into the economic thought of the scholars who played a pivotal role in ...
Foundations of Organisational Economics: Histories and Theories of the Firm and Production
1st Edition
By Paul Walker
September 26, 2022
Foundations of Organisational Economics: Histories and Theories of the Firm and Production delves into a range of key topics to do with the history of the mainstream approach to the theory of production and the theory of the firm. This includes the frameworks used to analyse production, the ...
Macroeconomic Analysis in the Classical Tradition: The Impediments Of Keynes’s Influence
1st Edition
By James C W Ahiakpor
September 26, 2022
Macroeconomic Analysis in the Classical Tradition explains how the influence of Keynes’s macroeconomics, including his changed definitions of some key macroeconomic concepts, has impeded many analysts’ ability to readily resolve disputes in modern macroeconomics. Expanding on his earlier ...
Poverty in the History of Economic Thought: From Mercantilism to Neoclassical Economics
1st Edition
Edited
By Mats Lundahl, Daniel Rauhut, Neelambar Hatti
August 01, 2022
Poverty in the History of Economic Thought: From Mercantilism to Neoclassical Economics aims to describe and critically examine how economic thought deals with poverty and the poor, including its causes, consequences, reduction, and abolition. This edited volume traces the economic ideas of key ...
English Economic Thought in the Seventeenth Century: Rejecting the Dutch Model
1st Edition
By Seiichiro Ito
May 30, 2022
In the seventeenth century, England saw Holland as an economic power to learn from and compete with. English Economic Thought in the Seventeenth Century: Rejecting the Dutch Model analyses English economic discourse during this period, and explores the ways in which England’s economy was shaped by ...
Classical Liberalism and the Industrial Working Class: The Economic Thought of Thomas Hodgskin
1st Edition
By Alberto Mingardi
April 29, 2022
Thomas Hodgskin (1787–1869) is today a largely unknown figure, sometimes considered to be a forerunner of Karl Marx. Yet a closer look at Hodgskin’s works reveals that he was actually a committed advocate of laissez-faire economics and enthusiastic about labor-saving machinery and the Industrial ...
F. A. Hayek and the Epistemology of Politics: The Curious Task of Economics
1st Edition
By Scott Scheall
September 30, 2021
F. A. Hayek and the Epistemology of Politics is an exploration of an important problem that has largely been ignored heretofore: the problem of policymaker ignorance and the consequences of limited political knowledge. Scott Scheall explores the significance of the fact that the possibilities for ...
A History of Feminist and Gender Economics
1st Edition
By Giandomenica Becchio
June 30, 2021
This book offers a historical exploration of the genesis of feminist economics and gender economics, as well as their theoretical and methodological differences. Its narrative also serves to embed both within a broader cultural context. Although both feminist economics and gender neoclassical ...
The Economic Thought of Sir James Steuart: First Economist of the Scottish Enlightenment
1st Edition
Edited
By José M. Menudo
June 30, 2021
James Steuart published An Inquiry into the Principles of Political Œconomy in 1767, the first systematic treatise on economics, nine years before Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations. Traditional historiography has tended to disregard and even deny Steuart’s oeuvre, categorizing him as the last, ...
The History of Ancient Chinese Economic Thought
1st Edition
Edited
By Cheng Lin, Terry Peach, Wang Fang
June 30, 2021
This volume comprises twelve papers written by Chinese scholars on various aspects of the history of ancient Chinese economic thought. The contributions are preceded by an introduction which gives an overview of the development of the subject of history of economic thought in China, and which also ...