Bøger i Routledge Studies in the History of Economics serien

The essays in this collection argue that the 'classical' approach to economic problems holds the key to an explanation of important present day economic phenomena.

Explores the role of economic theory in normalizing the family in the first half of the nineteenth century. Drawing on sources such as novels, books on etiquette and statistical sources, and works of economics, this book examines the impacts of these different forms on debate.

This study offers a perspective on Walras's pure, applied and social economics. Through archival research at the University of Lausanne, the author considers Walrus's ideas on the philosophy of science based on a newly constructed taxonomy.

This timely work elucidates Jevons' pivotal position in the history of economic thought.

An objective and perceptive account of the literature of monetary theory. This book shows how its inherent complexity is much enriched by the study of its history. It focuses on the innovative ideas of distinguished economists who anticipated modern theories, elaborating on them along lines that suggest original research programmes.

Explores the contributions to modern economics by John Maynard Keynes and addresses various aspects of the genesis of Keynesian economics. The author elucidates Keynes' development as an economic theoretician through an examination of his books, articles, manuscripts, lecture notes and controversial correspondence.

Knut Wicksell is arguably the greatest Swedish social scientist of all time and poverty was a theme that occupied him all his life. In this book Mats Lundahl, one of the world's leading development economists, examines Wicksell's thinking in the area and shows that his contribution is a major one.

Sheds light on the under-researched contribution of French thinkers to econometrics. This book offers an overview of what is the defining subsets within the economics profession. It explains how econometric ideas developed from and were inspired by philosophical worldviews and scientific paradigms from the nineteenth century.

Perrotta explores and charts the changing place of consumption as a source of investment in production and growth within economic writings from ancient history to the present.

Analyzes the theory and policy of William Stanley Jevons, a major figure in the field of the history of economics.

This study moves away from the usual depiction of Say as a one dimensional popularizer of Smith and proponent of libertarian ideology. Here he is placed in context, at the confluence of several major currents in social philosophy.

This volume offers an exciting new reading of John Ruskin's economic and social criticism, based on recent research into rhetoric in economics.

This book argues for the originality of Carl Menger's contribution to the development of the Austrian School of economics, against the dominant orthodoxy in the history of economic thought.

Examines the study of the division of labour over the past two and a half millennia, from the writings of Plato, Smith and Marx, to Hayek and Stigler.

This title explores the perceived paradigmatic conflict within British classical economics between the so called 'Ricardo School' and the contemporary French Economics of Jean-Baptiste Say.

This book is the first complete commentary on Marx's manuscripts of 1861-63, works that guide our understanding of fundamental concepts such as 'surplus-value' and 'production price'.