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1. Money and Banking in Jean-Baptiste Say’s Economic Thought

   By Gilles Jacoud

   Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

   The aim of this work is to make available to English-language readers a translation of Jean-Baptiste Say’s main texts on money and banking which were not at present accessible in English. The work includes chapters from his books taking into account the variants between the different editions,...

   Published November 28th 2012 by Routledge
2. Jean-Baptiste Say

   Revolutionary, Entrepreneur, Economist

   By Evert Schoorl

   Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

   This volume is the first full-length biography of Jean-Baptiste Say (1767-1832), the most famous French classical economist. During his lifetime Say actively took part in three revolutions: the French Revolution, the Industrial Revolution and the establishment of economics as an academic...

   Published November 20th 2012 by Routledge
3. Reinterpreting The Keynesian Revolution

   By Robert Cord

   Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

   Various explanations have been put forward as to why the Keynesian Revolution in economics in the 1930s and 1940s took place. Some of these point to the temporal relevance of John Maynard Keynes's The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (1936), appearing, as it did, just a handful of...

   Published November 15th 2012 by Routledge
4. A Bibliography of Female Economic Thought up to 1940

   By Kirsten Madden, Michele Pujol, Janet Seiz

   Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

   Contributions to female economic thought have come from prolific scholars, leading social reformers, economic journalists and government officials along with many other women who contributed only one or two works to the field. It is perhaps for this reason that a comprehensive bibliographic...

   Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. Knut Wicksell on the Causes of Poverty and it's Remedy

   By Mats Lundahl

   Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

   Knut Wicksell is arguably the greatest Swedish social scientist of all time, and poverty was a theme that occupied him all his life. Indeed, it was probably Wicksell's interest in poverty that was the critical factor in drawing him away from his purely mathematical background towards a greater...

   Published October 21st 2012 by Routledge
6. An Economic History of Ireland Since Independence

   By Andy Bielenberg, Raymond Ryan

   Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

   This book provides a cogent summary of the economic history of the Irish Free State/Republic of Ireland. It takes the Irish story from the 1920s right through to the present, providing an excellent case study of one of many European states which obtained independence during and after the First...

   Published October 9th 2012 by Routledge
7. Essays in the History of Economics

   Edited by William Henderson, Kirk D. Johnson, Marianne F. Johnson, Warren J. Samuels

   Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

   Under the impressive editorship of Warren Samuels et al, this book addresses the state of the history of economic thought today. An important contribution to the study of the history of economics, this eagerly-awaited book will develop an unsurprisingly large following....

   Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge
8. Economic Development and Social Change

   Edited by Yiorgos Stathakis, Gianni Vaggi

   Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

   Some of the greatest thinkers in the history of economic thought have been instrumental in advancing the study of development economics. In this volume, leading scholars are brought together to illuminate this tradition, with particular emphasis on the question of growth and development. Divided...

   Published September 18th 2012 by Routledge
9. The Experiment in the History of Economics

   Edited by Philippe Fontaine, Robert Leonard

   Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

   Throughout the history of economic ideas, it has often been asserted that experimentation is impossible, yet, in fact, history shows that the idea of ‘experimentation’ has always been important, and as such has been interpreted and put to use in many ways. Rich in historical detail, the essays in...

   Published September 18th 2012 by Routledge
10. Money and Exchange

    Folktales and Reality

    By Sasan Fayazmanesh

    Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

    Whether a theoretical system is realistic or not has been a concern in economics, particularly in monetary theory, over the past century. Following John R. Hicks’ proposal that a realistic monetary theory could be constructed along an evolutionary path, starting with the workings of a real market,...

    Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge