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This book allows full appreciation of the work of Allyn Young, a central figure in the development of American economic thought. It reprints his most significant contributions and lost works.

This study moves away from the usual depiction of Say as a one dimensional popularizer of Smith and proponent of libertarian ideology. Here he is placed in context, at the confluence of several major currents in social philosophy.

The relation between demographic phenomena and economic development is a complex one and has changed throughout time. This book examines how this relationship has been considered in the history of economic thought. It is of interest to student and researchers in history of population theory and economics development.

Building on the Groenewegen's respected collection of eighteenth century economics, this new book focuses on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and includes several essays that have never been previously published.

This second volume of essays on nineteenth and twentieth century economic thought, complements the first and continues the high standards of scholarship and academic rigour.

Sheds light on the under-researched contribution of French thinkers to econometrics. This book offers an overview of what is the defining subsets within the economics profession. It explains how econometric ideas developed from and were inspired by philosophical worldviews and scientific paradigms from the nineteenth century.

The period between 1767 and 1873 shaped public finance in Britain, with the major economists of the time providing influential contributions. This volume critically analyzes and compares the writings on government expenditure, taxation and public debt of thinkers such as Adam Smith, Jeremy Bentham, David Ricardo and Thomas Malthus.

Explores the contributions to modern economics by John Maynard Keynes and addresses various aspects of the genesis of Keynesian economics. The author elucidates Keynes' development as an economic theoretician through an examination of his books, articles, manuscripts, lecture notes and controversial correspondence.

Covers original findings and vistas on old problems. This work includes: alternative interpretations of classical economists; growth theory; the relationship between Sraffian theory and Von Neumann; and the treatment of capital in neoclassical long-period theory. It is intended for those working in the field of the history of economic thought.

Bringing together essays by authors in the field of economics, this book explores the relationship between money and markets throughout economic theory and history. It provides an understanding of various issues in monetary theory and other debates in contemporary economics. It covers the history of economic thought, monetary economics and others.

Aims to assess the state and scope of modern traverse analysis as it had been initiated by John Hicks in his pioneering contribution "Capital and Time" (1973). This book takes Hicks' work as the point of departure for theoretical work on the macroeconomic theory of capital dynamics along transition non-steady state paths.

A bibliographic collection of the history of female economic thought, this resource has been written with scholars of the history of economic thought and those involved in feminist economics in mind.

An objective and perceptive account of the literature of monetary theory. This book shows how its inherent complexity is much enriched by the study of its history. It focuses on the innovative ideas of distinguished economists who anticipated modern theories, elaborating on them along lines that suggest original research programmes.

Milton Friedman's and George J Stigler's Chicago School laid the groundwork for much of the neoclassical tradition in economic analysis. This book brings together a collection of letters from these two Noble laureates from the post-war years, containing information about their personal and professional relationships.

As interdisciplinary research is rightfully and increasingly being pursued in the social sciences, Kenneth Boulding is becoming a key figure regularly referred to. He has stretched the boundaries of the different fields in the social sciences, crossed and connected them. This volume offers valuable insights from his excursions.

In this volume, leading scholars are brought together to illuminate the advancement of the study of development economics, with particular emphasis on the question of growth and development.

This book brings together a collection of essays in honour of Peter Groenewegen, one of the most distinguished historians of economic thought. His work on a wide range of economic theorists approaches a level of near insuperability.

Introduces fresh translations of important writings from German economists such as Rau, Hildebrand, Roscher and Knies showing that the modern theory of marginal utility originated with them.

This collection summarizes the work of key historians of economics and attempts to quantify their impact. The collection is authored by an impressive list of contributors, many of whom are themselves well-known in this field.

Scholars from around the world with a wide range of theoretical perspectives probe into typical Shacklean themes of time and money, uncertainty and expectation and into the roots of Shackle's philosophical and methodological stance.

Exploring the relevance of Sraffa's thought for modern economics and written by an array of internationally respected contributors, this book is an invaluable tool for all those studying the history of economic thought.

In this book some of the world's leading Hayek scholars examine the link in his thought between the purely analytical and a broader vision that could be characterized as political economy.

This book traces the historical evolution of the concept of economic rationality from Adam Smith to the present, revealing how this concept has in fact changed over time. In doing so, it presents a uniquely detailed study of the historical change of the many faces of the homo oeconomicus.