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Keynes and Friedman on Laissez-Faire and Planning: Forget, Sandra Peart May 08, In this discipline-defining volume, some of the leading international scholars in the history of economic thought re-examine the concepts of 'classical economics' and the 'canon', illuminating the roots and evolution of the contemporary discipline. Vilfredo Pareto was one of the great systems theorists of the twentieth century, embracing economics, psychology, sociology and politics. In this important work, Michael McLure takes as his subject of study the rapport between Pareto's economic and sociological theory, and consequently, illuminates Gandhi's economic theories were a part of his vision of self-government, which meant not just freedom from colonial rule but the achievement of self-reliance and self-respect by the villagers of India.

Providing a contemporary overview of the debate amongst theoretical stands in economics, this book brings together contributions from a number of eminent scholars. It covers important issues in methodology and the history of thought, as well as economic analysis.

The book is structured in five Is there a language which is adequate to describe our own economy? In this volume, Michel Verdon undertakes a path-breaking analysis of the three major paradigms in economics: Marxian economics, neo-classical economics and Keynesian economics. Each of these, he argues, has an inherent cosmology, The crisis has revived debates on the relevance of laissez-faire, and thus on the role of the State in a modern economy.

This volume offers a new exploration of the writings of Keynes and Friedman on this topic, highlighting not only the clear points of opposition between them, but also the This volume is the first full-length biography of Jean-Baptiste Say , the most famous French classical economist.

Wilfred Dolfsma, Stefan Kesting March 04, Kenneth Boulding was a prolific writer across so many different fields that not only is he often much referred to and cited, he is considered a core member of many of these fields. Boulding is the quintessential interdisciplinary scholar. He died in , but he has left a legacy in economics, Various explanations have been put forward as to why the Keynesian Revolution in economics in the s and s took place. Some of these point to the temporal relevance of John Maynard Keynes's The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money , appearing, as it did, just a handful of The work includes chapters from his books taking into account the variants between the different editions, This book brings together key contributions of recent years, in addition to some brand new pieces.

His theory of "productive powers" and his argument for protecting infant industries give us a valuable way of looking at innovation systems, winners and losers…. The financial crisis of required the economics discipline to thoroughly re-evaluate its prevailing theories about economic cycles and economic growth. With a focus on Europe, this volume identifies the latest strands of research on business cycles, monetary theory, the evolution of social…. Recently, students and scholars have expressed dissatisfaction with the current state of economics and have called for the reintroduction of historical perspectives into economic thinking.

Supporting the idea that fruitful lessons can be drawn from the work of past economists, this volume brings…. In recent years, the focus of historians of economic thought has changed to also include the ideas and practices of contemporary economists. This has opened up new questions regarding the utilization of sources, choice of method, narrative styles, and ethical issues, as well as a new awareness of….

Today, most money is credit money, created by commercial banks.

This highlights how the organization of our monetary system is crucial to stability. One way to achieve this is by…. By Niels Geiger , Vadim Kufenko. Throughout the history of economic thought, interest in business cycles and economic crises has sometimes been observed to rise during times of crises, recessions and depressions. However, the treatment of this topic in the literature has generally been merely anecdotal.

This book presents a…. 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…. The last two decades have witnessed the growing influence of complexity analyses on the physical, biological and social sciences.

Economics has not remained indifferent to the power of nonlinear interactions to generate complex structures and an astonishing range of potential behaviours. Although Otto Neurath left his mark across an array of fields in the first half of the twentieth century, he was trained as an economist and wrote extensively about economics. He questioned the philosophical foundations of economic concepts, the fuzziness of economic terminology, the unwarranted…. The theory of the firm did not exist, in any serious manner, until around Only then did the current theory of the firm literature begin to emerge, based largely upon the work of Ronald Coase and to a lesser degree Frank Knight.

Since , profound questions have been asked about the driving forces and self-regulating potential of the economic system, political control and morality. With opinion turning against markets and self-interest, economists found themselves on the wrong side of the argument. This book explores how…. Latham , Heita Kawakatsu. Crown Prince Naruhito discusses the problems of controlling water in the interest of urban development. He first examines the problems encountered on the River Thames in….

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Edited by Susan Howson. Lionel Robbins — is best known to economists for his Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science and To the wider public he is well known for the 'Robbins Report' of the s on Higher Education, which recommended a major expansion of university education in…. Edited by Ryuzo Kuroki , Yusuke Ando. 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…. Kurz , Philippe Steiner. 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….

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….

Joseph Alois Schumpeter has long been recognised as one of the great economists of the 20th Century, and his truly revolutionary approach to economic development continues to gain appreciation. This is particularly due to the emphasis he places on innovation and creative destruction as drivers of….

Edited by Yukihiro Ikeda , Annalisa Rosselli. The Cold War, the Vietnam War, the intervention of the superpowers in local conflicts and the…. In the early s, 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…. Ricardo and International Trade looks at the ongoing renaissance of the Ricardian international trade theory. Yet his name is rarely mentioned in textbooks on the history of economic thought, the history of political science or the history of…. The last book devoted…. 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.

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…. The essays in this Festschrift have been chosen to honour Harald Hagemann and his scientific work. They reflect his main contributions to economic research and his major fields of interest.

The essays in the first part deal with various aspects within the history of economic thought. Edited by Doria Pilling. It also shows that to understand the problems…. More than anyone else of his time, Bastiat personified the struggle of liberalism and science against socialism and…. Analyzing Sraffa, one of the key figures in the history of economics, this book explores his legacy and the relevance of his thought for modern economics.

Written by an array of internationally respected contributors, including Schefold, Aspromourgos, Nell and Kurz it is an invaluable tool for all…. By Pierangelo Garegnani , Paul Samuelson.

Edited by Heinz D. This new volume explores two alternative economic theories — the classical theory and the marginalist or neoclassical theory- through a discussion between two eminent economists, Pierangelo Garegnani and Paul Samuelson. The key themes of the volume are the difference in approaches to the…. Edited by Ryuzo Kuroki. Keynes' staggering achievement has been to remain relevant to economics and other disciplines even today and this book reflects that with an examination on….

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Edited by Neri Salvadori , Christian Gehrke. Heinz Kurz is recognised internationally as a leading economic theorist and a foremost historian of economic thought. This book pays tribute to his outstanding contributions on the occasion of his 65th birthday by bringing together a unique collection of new essays by distinguished economists from…. This new book reopens the debate on theories of justice between utilitarian theorists and scholars from other camps. This book provides, for the first time, a systematic and comprehensive narrative of the history of one central idea in economics, namely the division of labour, over the past two and a half millennia, with special focus on that having occurred in the most recent two and a half centuries.

By Giandomenica Becchio , Giovanni Leghissa. Neoliberalism is a doctrine that adopts a free market policy in a deregulated political framework.