Book Series

Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

New & Published Titles:

The Economics of Joan Robinson

Edited by Maria Cristina Marcuzzo, Luigi Pasinetti, Alesandro Roncaglia

Joan Robinson is widely regarded as the greatest female economist and the most important figure in the post-Keynesian tradition. In this volume a distinguished, international…

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1996 | Hardback: 978-0-415-13616-7 (Routledge)

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On the Origins of Classical Economics

Distribution and Value from William Petty to Adam Smith

By Tony Aspromourgos

On the Origins of Classical Economics deals with the origin and early development of the classical theory of distribution up to 1767, stressing the concept…

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1995 | Hardback: 978-0-415-12878-0 (Routledge)

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Socialism & Marginalism in Economics 1870 - 1930

Edited by Ian Steedman

The rise to dominance of marginalist economics coincided with a major increase in the spread of socialist ideas. As many socialist and Marxist thinkers…

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1995 | Hardback: 978-0-415-13079-0 (Routledge)

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Hayek's Political Economy

The Socio-economics of Order

By Steve Fleetwood

In a society where no central agency coordinates the human activity of producing, selling and buying, why is there order and not chaos?
This fundamental…

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1995 | Hardback: 978-0-415-12909-1 (Routledge)

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Economics as Literature

By William Henderson

A rich vein of economics writings which runs through the nineteenth century and beyond is now largely ignored because its authors were women or because…

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1995 | Hardback: 978-0-415-12908-4 (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 November 30th 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