Book Series
Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
New & Published Titles:
Open Economics
Economics in relation to other disciplines
Economics has developed into one of the most specialised social sciences. Yet at the same time, it shares its subject matter with other social sciences…
read moreApril 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-46012-5 (Routledge)
New Essays on Pareto’s Economic Theory
Pareto's Manual of Political Economy, first published in 1905, introduced the analytical approach which has characterised a significant part of twentieth century economic theory. In…
read moreApril 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-46975-3 (Routledge)
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Evaluating Adam Smith
Adam Smith is well recognized as the forefather of modern economics, but his success can be attributed not only to what he wrote but also…
read moreMarch 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49412-0 (Routledge)
Civil Happiness
Economics and Human Flourishing in Historical Perspective
Economists have long laboured under the misapprehension that all humans exist as rational beings that find happiness in maximizing their personal utility. This impressive volume…
read moreFebruary 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49410-6 (Routledge)
Making Chicago Price Theory
Friedman-Stigler Correspondence 1945-1957
Milton Friedman and George J. Stigler shaped economics as we know it today – their Chicago School laid the groundwork for much of the neoclassical…
read moreFebruary 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49414-4 (Routledge)
New Voices on Adam Smith
In recent years, there has been a resurgence of academic interest in Adam Smith. As a consequence, a large number of PhD dissertations on Smith…
read moreFebruary 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49415-1 (Routledge)
Frank Knight and the Chicago School in American Economics
Over the last twenty years, Ross B. Emmett has explored the work of Frank H. Knight, the philosopher of the Chicago School of economics. Knight…
read moreJanuary 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-77500-7 (Routledge)
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Capital, Time and Transitional Dynamics
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…
read more2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-39519-9 (Routledge)
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Leading Contemporary Economists
Economics at the cutting edge
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,…
read more2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-77501-4 (Routledge)
The Science of Wealth
Adam Smith and the framing of political economy
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.…
read more2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-46385-0 (Routledge)
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