Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
About the Book Series
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.
The Foundations of Political Economy and Social Reform: Economy and Society in Eighteenth Century France
1st Edition
Edited
By Ryuzo Kuroki, Yusuke Ando
September 30, 2020
This book brings together leading contributors to explore the development of political economy in eighteenth century France from an interdisciplinary perspective, in particular the ideas for social reform proposed before the Revolution. Political economy in the Eighteenth century encompassed not ...
The History of Money and Monetary Arrangements: Insights from the Baltic and North Seas Region
1st Edition
By Thomas Marmefelt
September 30, 2020
Today, most money is credit money, created by commercial banks. While credit can finance innovation, excessive credit can lead to boom/bust cycles, such as the recent financial crisis. This highlights how the organization of our monetary system is crucial to stability. One way to achieve this is by...
Unproductive Labour in Political Economy: The History of an Idea
1st Edition
By Cosimo Perrotta
September 30, 2020
Contemporary mainstream economists see social wealth as the sum of individual incomes, but for three centuries many economists saw wealth as consisting of the public and private resources of a nation. This led them to explore the idea of unproductive labour, which provides a nation with an ...
Utilitarianism and Malthus' Virtue Ethics: Respectable, Virtuous and Happy
1st Edition
By Sergio Cremaschi
September 30, 2020
The die-hard image of Malthus the ogre has not completely disappeared yet. And yet, Malthus showed no less concern than Adam Smith for the labouring poor. In order to make full sense of such expression of concern and to appraise their relevance in Malthus’s work, we need to know what moral ...
A Historical Political Economy of Capitalism: After metaphysics
1st Edition
By Andrea Micocci
December 12, 2019
In order to understand the resilience of capitalism as a mode of production, social organization, and an intellectual system, it is necessary to explore its intellectual development and underlying structure. A Historical Political Economy of Capitalism argues that capitalism is based on a dominant...
Business Cycles in Economic Thought: A history
1st Edition
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By Alain Alcouffe, Monika Poettinger, Bertram Schefold
December 12, 2019
Business Cycles in Economic Thought underlines how, over the time span of two centuries, economic thought interacted with cycles in a continuous renewal of theories and rethinking of policies, whilst economic actions embedded themselves into past economic thought.This book argues that studying ...
Economic Analyses in Historical Perspective
1st Edition
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By José Luís Cardoso, Heinz D. Kurz, Philippe Steiner
December 12, 2019
This book brings together leading scholars of the history of economic thought to demonstrate the vitality and richness of a discipline that welcomes both practitioners of intellectual, contextual history, as well as specialists in the historical explanation of the analytical and theoretical ...
Economic Theory and its History
1st Edition
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By Giuseppe Freni, Heinz D. Kurz, Andrea Mario Lavezzi, Rodolfo Signorino
December 12, 2019
This collection brings together leading economists from around the world to explore key issues in economic analysis and the history of economic thought. This book deals with important themes in economics in terms of an approach that has its roots in the works of the classical economists from Adam ...
Economics and Capitalism in the Ottoman Empire
1st Edition
By Deniz Kilinçoğlu
December 12, 2019
Is it possible to generate "capitalist spirit" in a society, where cultural, economic and political conditions did not unfold into an industrial revolution, and consequently into an advanced industrial-capitalist formation? This is exactly what some prominent public intellectuals in the late ...
Economics and Literature: A Comparative and Interdisciplinary Approach
1st Edition
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By Ҫınla Akdere, Christine Baron
December 12, 2019
Since the Middle Ages, literature has portrayed the economic world in poetry, drama, stories and novels. The complexity of human realities highlights crucial aspects of the economy. The nexus linking characters to their economic environment is central in a new genre, the "economic novel", that puts...
Economics, Entrepreneurship and Utopia: The Economics of Jeremy Bentham and Robert Owen
1st Edition
By Estrella Trincado, Manuel Santos-Redondo
December 12, 2019
In the early 1800s, Robert Owen was a mill owner, political figure, and an advocate for social reform, and his publications attained considerable circulation. He believed that people need good working conditions in order to be encouraged to work and motivated to learn. Despite the higher costs ...
Economics, Ethics, and Ancient Thought: Towards a virtuous public policy
1st Edition
By Donald G. Richards
December 12, 2019
It is argued that the normative and ethical presuppositions of standard economics render the discipline incapable of addressing an important class of problems involving human choices. Economics adopts too thin an account both of human motivation and of "the good" for individuals and for society. It...