Book Series

Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

New & Published Titles:

Capital, Time and Transitional Dynamics

Edited by Harald Hagemann, Roberto Scazzieri

In the words of Robert M. Solow traverse analysis "is the easiest part of skiing, but the hardest part of economics". The aim of this…

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2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-39519-9 (Routledge)

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Leading Contemporary Economists

Economics at the cutting edge

Edited by Steven Pressman

This book describes the important contributions of several contemporary economic figures including recent Nobel Laureates. Describing their work and putting it into an historical perspective,…

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2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-77501-4 (Routledge)

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The Science of Wealth

Adam Smith and the framing of political economy

By Tony Aspromourgos

This study clarifies the character of 'political economy' as a distinct and separable intellectual discipline in the generic sense, in the texts of Adam Smith.…

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2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-46385-0 (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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2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-32001-6 (Routledge)

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Keynes's Theoretical Development

From the Tract to the General Theory

By Toshiaki Hirai

Comprehensive and authoritative, this book, written by a recognized authority on the subject explores the contributions to modern economics by John Maynard Keynes and addresses…

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2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-36279-5 (Routledge)

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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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2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-77302-7 (Routledge)

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Monetary Theory in Retrospect

The Selected Essays of Filippo Cesarano

By Filippo Cesarano

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…

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2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-42343-4 (Routledge)

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Interpreting Classical Economics

Studies in Long-Period Analysis

By Heinz Kurz, Neri Salvadori

This book is the third volume of previously published essays from Heinz D. Kurz and Neri Salvadori, following Understanding Classical Economics (1998) and Classical Economics

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2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-42880-4 (Routledge)

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The Years of High Econometrics

A Short History of the Generation that Reinvented Economics

By Francisco Louçã

A fascinating and comprehensive history, this book explores the most important transformation in twentieth century economics: the creation of econometrics.

Containing fresh archival material that has…

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2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-41974-1 (Routledge)

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Considerations on the Fundamental Principles of Pure Political Economy

By Vilfredo Pareto

Between May 1892 and October 1893 the Giornale degli Economisti published Vilfredo Pareto’s Considerazioni sui principi fondamentali dell’economia politica pura in five parts. Viewed in…

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2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-39919-7 (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:

Keynes on Monetary Policy, Finance and Uncertainty: Liquidity Preference Theory and the Global Financial Crisis
By Jorg Bibow
To be published July 9th 2009

The Mathematical Analysis of Linear Economic Systems: Father Maurice Potron’s Pioneering Works.
Edited by Christian Bidard, Guido Erreygers
To be published June 16th 2009

Criticisms of Classical Political Economy: Menger, Austrian Economics and the German Historical School
By Gilles Campagnolo
To be published June 8th 2009

Problems and Methods of Econometrics: The Poincaré Lectures of Ragnar Frisch 1933
By Ragnar Frisch
To be published June 1st 2009

A History of Entrepreneurship
By Robert F. Hébert, Albert N. Link
To be published May 27th 2009

Rosa Luxemburg and the Critique of Political Economy
Edited by Riccardo Bellofiore
To be published May 22nd 2009

Open Economics: Economics in relation to other disciplines
Edited by Richard Arena, Sheila Dow, Matthias Klaes
To be published April 28th 2009

A History of Economic Theory: Essays in honour of Takashi Negishi
Edited by Aiko Ikeo, Heinz D. Kurz
To be published April 28th 2009

New Essays on Pareto’s Economic Theory
Edited by Luigino Bruni, Aldo Montesano
To be published March 4th 2009

Frank Knight and the Chicago School in American Economics
By Ross B. Emmett
To be published January 29th 2009