This book focuses on both Marshall and the Marshallian tradition, revisiting the 1920s and 1930s debates on business size, external economies, coordination and management costs including contributions from Roger Backhouse and Richard Arena. _x000D_..
Alfred Marshall, Professor of Economics at Cambridge University (1885-1908), produced a distinguished a distinguished crop of students including Pigou and Keynes; this book intends to examine the major work of ten of these ‘minor’ Marshallians...
In this book, first published in 1988, the editors have included the reviews of thirteen classic works on economic theory, empirical economic studies, political economy and management. Each major work was chosen due to its shaping our current knowledge and perspectives, and each essay is commented o..
In this book, first published in 1988, the editors have included the reviews of thirteen classic works on economic theory, empirical economic studies, political economy and management. Each major work was chosen due to its shaping our current knowledge and perspectives, and each essay is commented o..
An objective and perceptive account of the literature of monetary theory, this volume, by a central banker who has studied monetary theory over the last quarter of a century, clearly shows how its inherent complexity is much enriched by the study of its history._x000D_
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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 book provides a comprehensive understanding of money with a global approach. It helps to increase the awareness of injustices hidden in the workings of modern money and banking systems and the need for moral underpinnings of such systems and suggests a money system which could immensely improve ..
The book provides a comprehensive understanding of money with a global approach. It helps to increase the awareness of injustices hidden in the workings of modern money and banking systems and the need for moral underpinnings of such systems and suggests a money system which could immensely improve ..
This introduction to the theory of money and of balance of payments adjustment was originally published in 1969. It was the first book to pay full attention to the theory of assets: the relation of the supply of assets to the demand for holding them and the significance of asset movements for balanc..
Between 1909-17, Gustavo Del Vecchio developed a ‘theory of circulation’. In a series of articles he set out his thoughts on the utility and value of money, credit, discount rates, banking and international payments. Tusset re-evaluates Del Vecchio’s theory, concluding that money represents a techno..
In this unprecedented study, Arild Sæther sheds new light both on Pufendorf’s own life and work, as well as his influence on his contemporaries and on later scholars. This book explores Pufendorf’s doctrines of political economy and his work on natural law, which was translated into several major Eu..