Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

Richard Cantillon's Essay on the Nature of Trade in General

A Variorum Edition

By Richard Cantillon

Edited by Richard van den Berg

Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

The Essay on the Nature of Trade in General was written in the early 1730s by Richard Cantillon, a speculator and banker who had made a vast fortune during the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles of 1719-20. The work remained unpublished for about two decades, but when it appeared posthumously in...

Published May 26th 2015 by Routledge

Value and Prices in Russian Economic Thought

A journey inside the Russian synthesis, 1890–1920

By François Allisson

Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

This book explores Russian synthesis that occurred in Russian economic thought between 1890 and 1920. This includes all the attempts at synthesis between classical political economy and marginalism; the labour theory of value and marginal utility; and value and prices. The various ways in which...

Published May 26th 2015 by Routledge

Subjectivism and Objectivism in the History of Economic Thought

Edited by Kiichiro Yagi, Yukihiro Ikeda

Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

This book investigates the tensions between subjectivism and objectivism in the history of economics. The book looks at the works of Adam Smith, Carl Menger, Leon Walras, William Stanley Jevons, Oskar Morgenstern, Ludwig Mises, Piero Sraffa, and so on. The book highlights the...

Published May 22nd 2015 by Routledge

Considerations on the Fundamental Principles of Pure Political Economy

By Vilfredo Pareto

Edited by Roberto Marchionatti, Fiorenzo Mornati

Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

Between May 1892 and October 1893 the Giornale degli Economisti published Vilfredo Pareto’s Considerazioni sui principi fondamentali dell’economia politica pura in five parts. Viewed in its entirety, the outcome is essentially a classic monograph on the fundamental issues in pure economic theory in...

Published May 22nd 2015 by Routledge

The Foundations of 'Laissez-Faire'

The Economics of Pierre de Boisguilbert

By Gilbert Faccarello

Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

This is the first full length study of Boisguilbert's work to appear in English. It contains an extended discussion of the context in which Boisguilbert worked, as well as a detailed analysis of his life and work....

Published May 8th 2015 by Routledge

Eighteenth Century Economics

By Peter Groenewegen

Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

Peter Groenewegen is one of the world's foremost scholars of eighteenth century economics - the era that saw the effective 'mainstreaming' of the discipline in the work of Smith, Turgot and Quesnay. This collection of essays amounts to the definitive guide to eighteenth century economics and is a...

Published May 8th 2015 by Routledge

Reflections on the Classical Canon in Economics

Essays in Honour of Samuel Hollander

Edited by Evelyn L. Forget, Sandra Peart

Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

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....

Published May 8th 2015 by Routledge

Pareto, Economics and Society

The Mechanical Analogy

By Michael McLure

Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

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...

Published May 8th 2015 by Routledge

William Stanley Jevons and the Cutting Edge of Economics

By Bert Mosselmans

Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

The impressive young scholar Bert Mosselmans, analyzing the theory and policy of Jevons, a major figure in the field of the history of economics, has put together a volume with broad international appeal, particularly in Europe, North America and Japan, that offers a synthetic approach to Jevons’...

Published April 27th 2015 by Routledge

Gandhi's Economic Thought

By Ajit K. Dasgupta

Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

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. Areas examined include: * consumption behaviour * industrialization, technology and the scale...

Published April 7th 2015 by Routledge