A Bibliography of Female Economic Thought to 1940
Historians of economic thought have rarely given much attention to writings by women. This volume is intended to help remedy that situation. It presents a…
Linguet was a critic of the physiocrats and of what he perceived as the disastrous consequences the liberalisation of the trade in grain on the…
This paper deals with some difficulties presented by Ricardo's texts on international trade, taking seriously Ricardo's account of the systematic interaction of real and monetary…
This paper offers a comprehensive graphical exposition of Böhm-Bawerk's formalised macroeconomic theory. This graphical model is used here for the first time to study the…
This critical bibliography of Adam Smith takes as its starting point the Kress Library of Business and Economics’ 1939 catalogue of its Vanderblue Collection of…
The discussion of J.A. Hobson's understanding of over-saving has been largely confined within John Maynard Keynes' famous critique in the General Theory. I argue that…
First published in 1990, this book presents an original and comprehensive overview of Australian economic thought. The authors stress, by way of introduction, the many…
In A History of Canadian Economic Thought, Robin Neill relates the evolution of economic theory in Canada to the particular geographical and political features of…
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The history of Indian economic thought provides rich insights into both economic issues and the workings of the Indian mind. A History of Indian Economic…
For a country that can boast a distinguished tradition of political economy from Sir William Petty through Swift, Berkeley, Hutcheson, Burke and Cantillon through to…
This book provides the non-Italian scholar with an extensive picture of the development of Italian economics, from the sixteenth century to the present. The thread…
Economics, in the modern sense of the word, was introduced into Japan in the second half of the nineteenth century. However, Japanese thinkers had already…
A History of Portuguese Economic Thought offers the first account in English of the development of economic thought in Portugal. The volume covers from the…
The collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of the 1980s was perceived as a victory for capitalist democracy, yet the significance of socialist…
Modern economics has at its foundation scholarly contributions from many prominent Scottish thinkers. A History of Scottish Economic Thought examines the roots of this great…
Ricardo is one of the most imposing figures in the history of economic thought, yet at times his writings are among the most obscure. A…
Between 1789 and 1803 the National Debt Office issued unbacked interest bearing notes whereas the Bank of Sweden issued silver backed notes. The massive note…
This article reassesses Marx's thought on labour exchange and illuminates its worth. In the Grundrisse and subsequent pre-Capital writings, Marx presented arguments that attached importance…
This paper is a study of Bentham's felicific calculus. Challenging a view that contrasts ‘cardinal’ to ‘ordinal’ calculus, we show that these two forms of…
This book, now in its third edition, provides an elementary introduction to the history of economic thought. A chapter is devoted to each of the…
The aim of this paper is to explore the contrasting views of inflation, exchange rate misalignments and determinants of gold flows held by different branches…
For Adam Smith, capital accumulation was necessary and sufficient for high wages. But for Malthus it is not necessary because if workers choose to delay…
Adam Smith is one of the great founding figures of modern social science, in a larger sense than that conveyed by the popular perception of…
The fertility of Adam Smith’s work stems from a paradoxical structure where the pursuit of economic self-interest and wealth accumulation serve wider social objectives. The…