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This book analyzes the evolution of the approach of dynamic equilibrium between the two world wars. Focusing on its intellectual history, it describes precisely how the central idea of equilibrium dynamics was advanced and mathematically formulated in the years of high theory in an international context, explaining clearly the creation of economic dynamics in the context of its historical development.

Addressing all aspects of Steuart's contribution to economics this book reveals the particular importance of his work on monetary issues and highlights ways in which he prepared the ground for a new conception of economic relations.

A century ago, John Maynard Keynes entered the Treasury to serve his country during the First World War, but as is well known, appalled by the terms of the end-of-war Treaty of Versailles, he abandoned the British delegation, outlining the predictable adverse results in the Economic Consequences of the Peace, published in 1919. Far less well known is his personal and political development that led him to be called to service even before Great Britain entered the conflict.

This book clarifies the approach of the German Historical School by the reconstruction of their achievements in terms of rational and historical context.

This book examines the life and work of six doctor-economists: Petty, Locke, Barbon, Mandeville, Quesnay and Juglar. It studies the interaction between their medicalpractice and their economics.

Bringing together essays by leading authors, this book explores the relationship between money and markets throughout economic theory and history, providing readers with the key to understanding important issues in monetary theory and important debates in contemporary economics.

A century after his birth, this volume presents a re-assessment of the life and work of Piero Sraffa, one of the great economists of the twentieth century.

This book documents exchanges between individual scientists and explores the boundaries between economics and neighbouring fields.

The volume goes beyond the conventional history of economics in its emphasis on the historical and institutional context, economic policy, and the development of economics as a profession.

The work of Henry A. Abbati's was much admired by Robertson and Keynes. This book seeks to restore his position as a pioneer in macroeconomic theory with a selection of his writings demonstrating his contribution to the history of economic thought.

In recent years, the focus of historians of economic thought has changed to also include the ideas and practices of contemporary economists. This book brings together leading contributors to provide, for the first time, a methodological overview of the historiography of economics.

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 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 writings of the classical economists from Adam Smith to David Ricardo. The chapters have been inspired by the work of Neri Salvadori, who has made key contributions in various areas including the theory of production, the theory of value and distribution, the theory of economic growth, as well as the theory of renewable and deplorable natural resources.

The book seeks to analyse Ricardös works from the year 1920 to the end of the 1930s ¿ during the time of the outbreak of the Second World War, when even the study of classical economics became difficult. The book covers different aspects of his works and contains elements which may be interesting to foreign and even Japanese readers today without necessarily coming under the influence of Marx¿s reading. It presents Ricardös work that is at present, wholly unknown to the Ricardo scholars and more generally to the historians of economic thought outside Japan.

The financial crisis of 2008 has revived interest in economic scholarship from a historical perspective. The most in depth studies of the relationship between economics and history can be found in the work of the so-called German Historical School (GHS). The influence of the GHS in the USA and Britain has been well documented, but far less has been written on the rest of Europe.

This edited volume examines the relationship between economic ideas, economic policies and development institutions, analysing the cases of 11 peripheral countries in Europe, Latin America and Asia across the 19th and 20th centuries.