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 Economic Thought of Sir James Steuart: First Economist of the Scottish Enlightenment
1st Edition
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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
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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 ...
Ordoliberalism and European Economic Policy: Between Realpolitik and Economic Utopia
1st Edition
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By Malte Dold, Tim Krieger
April 01, 2021
This volume takes a broad perspective on the recent debate on the role of German ordoliberalism in shaping European economic policy before and after the eurozone crisis. It shows how ordoliberal scholars explain the institutional origins of the eurozone crisis, and presents creative policy ...
A History of Utilitarian Ethics: Studies in Private Motivation and Distributive Justice, 1700-1875
1st Edition
By Samuel Hollander
March 31, 2021
In this landmark volume, Samuel Hollander presents a fresh and compelling history of moral philosophy from Locke to John Stuart Mill, showing that a ‘moral sense’ can actually be considered compatible with utilitarianism. The book also explores the link between utilitarianism and distributive ...
Ideas in the History of Economic Development: The Case of Peripheral Countries
1st Edition
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By Estrella Trincado, Andrés Lazzarini, Denis Melnik
March 31, 2021
This edited volume examines the relationship between economic ideas, economic policies and development institutions, analysing the cases of 11 peripheral countries in Europe, Latin America and Asia across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It sheds light on the obstacles that have prevented ...
Macroeconomics without the Errors of Keynes: The Quantity Theory of Money, Saving, and Policy
1st Edition
By James C. W. Ahiakpor
March 31, 2021
Modern macroeconomics is in a stalemate, with seven schools of thought attempting to explain the workings of a monetary economy and to derive policies that promote economic growth with price-level stability. This book pinpoints as the source of this confusion errors made by Keynes in his reading of...
The Economic Thought of Michael Polanyi
1st Edition
By Gábor Bíró
March 31, 2021
Michael Polanyi is most famous for his work in chemistry and the philosophy of science, but in the 1930s and 1940s he made an important contribution to economics. Drawing on rich archival materials of Polanyi and his correspondents, Gábor Bíró explores their competing worldviews and their struggles...
Asia and the History of the International Economy: Essays in Memory of Peter Mathias
1st Edition
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By A.J.H. Latham, Heita Kawakatsu
December 18, 2020
This collection of essays sheds new light on many aspects of Asia’s integration with the international economy. H.I.H. Crown Prince Naruhito discusses the problems of controlling water in the interest of urban development. He first examines the problems encountered on the River Thames in ...
Divine Providence in Early Modern Economic Thought
1st Edition
By Joost Hengstmengel
December 18, 2020
In this important volume, Joost Hengstmengel examines the doctrine of divine providence and how it served as explanation and justification in economic debates in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries throughout Western Europe. The author discusses five different areas in which God was...
The Political Economy of the Han Dynasty and Its Legacy
1st Edition
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By Cheng Lin, Terry Peach, Wang Fang
December 18, 2020
This book contains original essays on various aspect of the Han’s political economy and its legacy, written by leading Chinese and Western scholars whose collective expertise spans Economic History, History of Economic Thought and Sinology....
A Brief Prehistory of the Theory of the Firm
1st Edition
By Paul Walker
September 30, 2020
The theory of the firm did not exist, in any serious manner, until around 1970. Only then did the current theory of the firm literature begin to emerge, based largely upon the work of Ronald Coase and to a lesser degree Frank Knight. It was work by Armen Alchian, Robert Crawford, Harold Demsetz, ...
A Contemporary Historiography of Economics
1st Edition
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By Till Düppe, E. Roy Weintraub
September 30, 2020
In recent years, the focus of historians of economic thought has changed to also include the ideas and practices of contemporary economists. This has opened up new questions regarding the utilization of sources, choice of method, narrative styles, and ethical issues, as well as a new awareness of ...