History of Economic Thought

The decision to initiate a "High Tide" of agricultural co-operativisation in 1955 in China, is documented in this text. The social impact, policy conflict and leadership style of Mao is detailed, drawing upon documentary sources, interviews with Party historians, and a chronology of events...

This book is a timely examination of banks and corporate finance. It addresses such issues as credit constraints, the supervisions of managers and the stabilization of share prices...

This book, first published in 1982, provides a thorough analysis of the Stockholm School’s contribution to the development of dynamic methods. It examines the work of such key figures as Myrdal, Lundberg and Lindahl and provides new insights on their work...

This book, first published in 1982, provides a thorough analysis of the Stockholm School’s contribution to the development of dynamic methods. It examines the work of such key figures as Myrdal, Lundberg and Lindahl and provides new insights on their work...

This book firstly offers a brief overview of the past, consisting of a concise discussion of the classical view of production, followed by an outline of the development of the neoclassical - or ‘textbook’ - approach to firm level production. Secondly, the ‘present’ of the theory of the firm is discu..

The essays in this volume, first published in 1989, seek to re-examine an important area of economic theory: value and distribution.  Although the essays are primarily concerned with value and distribution, the critique necessarily extends to the theory of output and employment, and in general, to t..

The essays in this volume, first published in 1989, seek to re-examine an important area of economic theory: value and distribution.  Although the essays are primarily concerned with value and distribution, the critique necessarily extends to the theory of output and employment, and in general, to t..

The purpose of this book is to provide a comprehensive account and reconsideration of the contribution to political economy of Thomas Tooke (1774-1858) throwing new light on monetary analysis within the framework of classical economics. _x005F_x000D_  ..

This book explores Russian synthesis that occurred in Russian economic thought between 1890 and 1920. This includes all the attempts at synthesis between classical political economy and marginalism; labour theory of value and marginal utility; and between value and prices. The various ways in which ..

This book, originally published in German in 1893 and in English in 1954 brought time into the previously timeless theory of value and income distribution...

Even after the experience of WWII, despite the existence of various institutions such as United Nations to avoid conflict between nations, we have not succeeded in making a world free from war. The Cold War, the Vietnam War, the intervention of the superpowers in local conflicts and the spread of te..

J. A. Hobson’s Imperialism: A Study, first written in 1902, was undoubtedly his most prolific work. Yet he wrote frequently about the topic of imperialism of the course of his career, and a number of his articles are included in this collection, first published in 1992. This fascinating material pro..