History of Economic Thought Books

New and Published Books

1. The Value Dimension (Routledge Revivals)

   Marx versus Ricardo and Sraffa

   By Ben Fine

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   The essays in this edited collection, first published in 1986, focus on important debates surrounding the central Marxian problem of the transformation of values into prices. The collection brings together major contributions on the value theory debate from the decade prior to the book’s...

   Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. Keynes and his Contemporaries

   Tradition and Enterprise in the Cambridge School of Economics

   By Atsushi Komine

   Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

   Published March 29th 2013 by Routledge
3. The State and the Economy Under Capitalism

   By A. Przeworski

   How valid is the Marxian theory of imperialism? This book traces the historical development of the theory of imperialism, the internationalisation of capital and theories of capitalist nation-state formation....

   Published March 21st 2013 by Taylor & Francis
4. The Means to Prosperity

   Fiscal Policy Reconsidered

   Edited by Per Gunnar Berglund, Matias Vernengo

   Series: Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking

   While recent developments in monetary theory have been fast to spread to policy analysis and practice and the media, the same is not true of fiscal policy, and a void has emerged. Issues such as timing, cyclical adjustments, long-term sustainability, and social implications are often seen as...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
5. Studies in Applied Economics

   By Léon Walras

   Edited by Jan Van Daal

   Léon Walras (1834-1910) was one of the key thinkers behind the development of marginal utility theory and his introduction of general equilibrium theory is one of the cornerstones of modern economic thought. Now, his seminal work Études d'économie politique appliquée, first published in 1898, is...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
6. Introducing Money

   By Mark Peacock

   Series: Economics as Social Theory

   This book provides a theoretical and historical examination of the evolution of money. It is distinct from the majority of ‘economic’ approaches, for it does not see money as an outgrowth of market exchange via barter. Instead, the social, political, legal and religious origins of money are...

   Published March 12th 2013 by Routledge
7. The Rise of the American Business Corporation

   By R. Tedlow

   This title presents an historical survey of the American business corporation from the colonial era to the present day....

   Published March 10th 2013 by Taylor & Francis
8. Thoughts on Economic Development in China

   Edited by Ma Ying, Hans-Michael Trautwein

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

   This book is about mutual influences of thinking about economic development in China and in the West, from the 18th century until the present. Its chapters are contributed by development economists and historians of thought from China and other parts of the world. The book describes important...

   Published February 20th 2013 by Routledge
9. Capitalist Imperialism, Crisis and the State

   By J. Willoughby

   How valid is the Marxian theory of imperialism? This book traces the historical development of the theory of imperialism, the internationalisation of capital and theories of capitalist nation-state formation...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Taylor & Francis
10. Wealth and Life (Routledge Revivals)

    A Study in Values

    By J. A. Hobson

    First published in 1930, this book endeavours to trace and express the relations between economic and human values, between wealth and life. Hobson studies everything from the role of production processes and consumption in the determination of human welfare; to the changing attitudes of economic...

    Published February 11th 2013 by Routledge