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Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

New & Published Titles:

Keynes's Vision

Why the Great Depression did not Return

By John Philip Jones

John Maynard Keynes was the most influential economist of the 20th Century, whose doctrines had a huge impact on American prosperity in the years following…

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November 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-78000-1 (Routledge)

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David Hume's Political Economy

Edited by Margaret Schabas, Carl Wennerlind

Hume’s Political Discourses (1752) won immediate acclaim and positioned him as an authoritative figure on the subject of political economy. This volume of thirteen new…

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October 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49413-7 (Routledge)

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At the Origins of Mathematical Economics

The Economics of A.N. Isnard (1748-1803)

By Richard Van Den Berg

Achille Nicolas Isnard (1749-1803) an engineer with a keen interest in political economy, is best known for demonstrating the concept of market equilibrium using a…

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October 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54763-5 (Routledge)

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Ethical Codes and Income Distribution

A Study of John Bates Clark and Thorstein Veblen

By Guglielmo Forges Davanzati

In contemporary non-mainstream economic debate, it is widely thought that the functioning of a market economy needs a set of rules (i.e. institutions) which bind…

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September 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49411-3 (Routledge)

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Kalecki's Principle of Increasing Risk and Keynesian Economics

By Tracy Mott

Kalecki was one of an important generation of Cambridge economists. Here, Tracy Mott's impressive book examines the relationship of Kalecki's economics to different economic areas…

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September 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-08039-2 (Routledge)

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Keynes on Monetary Policy, Finance and Uncertainty

Liquidity Preference Theory and the Global Financial Crisis

By Jorg Bibow

This book provides a reassessment of Keynes’ theory of liquidity preference. It argues that the failure of the Keynesian revolution to be made in either…

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June 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-35262-8 (Routledge)

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Rosa Luxemburg and the Critique of Political Economy

Edited by Riccardo Bellofiore

This book analyzes the important contributions of Rosa Luxemburg to economic theory as well as devoting some space to her background as a left social-democratic…

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June 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-40570-6 (Routledge)

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Problems and Methods of Econometrics

The Poincaré Lectures of Ragnar Frisch 1933

By Ragnar Frisch

The development of economics changed dramatically during the twentieth century with the emergence of econometrics, macroeconomics and a more scientific approach in general. One of…

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June 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-45144-4 (Routledge)

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A History of Entrepreneurship

By Robert F. Hébert, Albert N. Link

This book establishes a chronological trace of the entrepreneur as treated in economic literature in order to give a more wholesome perspective to contemporary writings…

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May 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-77738-4 (Routledge)

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A History of Economic Theory

Essays in honour of Takashi Negishi

Edited by Aiko Ikeo, Heinz D. Kurz

Few economists have been as prolific and wide-ranging as Takashi Negishi. Part of the "Hicksian" generation of Neo-Walrasian general equilibrium theorists, Negishi rose to prominence…

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April 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-43304-4 (Routledge)

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Series Details:

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.

Forthcoming Titles:

Criticisms of Classical Political Economy: Menger, Austrian Economics and the German Historical School
By Gilles Campagnolo
To be published December 15th 2009

Political Economy, Public Policy and Monetary Economics: Ludwig von Mises and the Austrian Tradition
By Richard M. Ebeling
To be published December 18th 2009

Economic Theory and Economic Thought: Essays in Honour of Ian Steedman
Edited by John Vint, J. Stanley Metcalfe, Heinz D. Kurz, Neri Salvadori, Paul Samuelson
To be published December 18th 2009

Keynes and the British Humanist Tradition: The Moral Purpose of the Market
By David Andrews
To be published February 18th 2010

Studies in Social Economics
By Léon Walras
To be published March 25th 2010

Political Economy and Industrialism: Banks in Saint-Simonian Economic Thought
By Gilles Jacoud
To be published March 25th 2010

The Division of Labour in Economics: A History
By Guang-Zhen Sun
To be published April 1st 2010

Marshall, Marshallians and Industrial Economics
Edited by Tiziano Raffaelli, Tamotsu Nishizawa, Simon Cook
To be published April 30th 2010

The Making of the Classical Theory of Economic Growth
By Anthony Brewer
To be published April 30th 2010

Population, Development and Welfare in the History of Economic Thought
By Claudia Sunna
To be published April 30th 2010

Innovation, Knowledge and Growth: Adam Smith, Schumpeter and the Moderns
By Heinz D. Kurz
To be published May 1st 2010

Adam Smith and the Economy of the Passions
By Jan H. KepplerEdited by Robert Chase
To be published May 15th 2010

Austrian and German Economic Thought: From Subjectivism to Social Evolution
By Kiichiro Yagi
To be published May 30th 2010

The Economic Reader: Textbooks, Manuals and the Dissemination of the Economic Sciences during the 19th and Early 20th Centuries.
Edited by Massimo M. Augello, Marco E. L Guidi
To be published June 1st 2010

The Essential Writings of Thorstein Veblen
Edited by Charles Camic, Geoffrey M. Hodgson
To be published June 1st 2010

Production, Distribution and Trade: Alternative Perspectives
Edited by Adriano Birolo, Duncan Foley, Heinz D. Kurz, Bertram Schefold, Ian Steedman
To be published June 15th 2010

Hayek, Mill and the Liberal Tradition
Edited by Andrew Farrant
To be published June 30th 2010

Real Business Cycle Models in Economics
By Warren Young
To be published June 30th 2010

The Origins of David Hume's Economics
By William Henderson
To be published July 1st 2010

A Dynamic Approach to Economic Theory: The Yale Lectures of Ragnar Frisch
By Ragnar Frisch
To be published July 15th 2010