History of Economic Thought

Originally published in 1925. This book sets forth a plan to stabilize currencies at a time in which there was much discussion in the area. A fascinating insight into 1920s economic history...

Presents the history of economics. This book offers coverage of Joseph Stiglitz, 'imperfect' markets, and behavioral economics...

Presents the history of economics. This book offers coverage of Joseph Stiglitz, 'imperfect' markets, and behavioral economics...

This book collects together for the first time Anthony Brewer’s work on the origins and development of the theory of economic growth from the late eighteenth century and looking at how it came to dominate economic thinking in the nineteenth century...

This book collects together for the first time Anthony Brewer’s work on the origins and development of the theory of economic growth from the late eighteenth century and looking at how it came to dominate economic thinking in the nineteenth century...

John Pullen presents a critical history of the concept of the Marginal Profit Theory of Distribution looking at the contributions of its proponents (eg Stigler) and its critics (eg Pareto) and stressing the continuity of the debate. ..

This book unites formal mathematical economics and idiosyncratic political economy. Analytical rigour is brought to the market concept giving general equilibrium theory a new lease of life...

This title was first published in 2003. This book assumes a viewpoint practically absent from contemporary economics by readdressing the original fundamental question of economics: how should we decide how scarce resources should be allocated among competing uses? By focusing on this question the bo..

While recent developments in monetary theory have quickly spread to policy analysis and practice and the media, the same is not true of fiscal policy. This key book assesses these issues through contributions from a host of top names...

The importance of this book, translated for the first time in 1983, lies not so much in List’s advocacy of the fiscal policy of protection as in the relatively new doctrines that he put forward. He discussed stages of economic growth, ‘productive powers’ and the industrialisation of developing regio..

In this special edition of The Adam Smith Review, leading scholars explore Smith’s understanding of sympathy, resentment and moral judgment, his attitude towards aesthetics and theology, as well as the nature of intrinsic value and the merits of cosmopolitanism...

Situates changes in the nature of money and the rise of sophisticated financial structures at the centre of the Enlightenment. This work argues that paper credit instruments were causal - critical to the larger epistemological and psychological changes associated with the Enlightenment's reconstruct..