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Book SynopsisThe volume continues P. G. Walsh's admired translation with commentary of Augustine's The City of God Books I-XIV which have been published in eight earlier volumes between 2003 and 2016, and this ninth volume in the collection looks at books XV and XVI. After completing the first ten books of De Civitate Dei, in which Augustine sought to refute the claim that pagan deities had ensured that Rome enjoyed unbroken success and prosperity in this life and guaranteed its citizens a blessed life after death, Augustine devoted the remaining twelve books to discuss the origins, development and destiny of the two cities of Babylon and Jerusalem, with the predominant emphasis on the city of God. This is the only edition of these books in English which provides not only a text but also a detailed commentary on one of the most influential documents in the history of western Christianity. Latin text with facing-page English translation, introduction and commentary.Table of ContentsPrefaceAbbreviations and BibliographyINTRODUCTIONNOTESTEXT AND TRANSLATION OF BOOK XV TEXT AND TRANSLATION OF BOOK XVICOMMENTARY ON BOOK XV COMMENTARY ON BOOK XVIIndices

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Book SynopsisThe volume continues P. G. Walsh's admired translation with commentary of Augustine's The City of God Books I-XIV which have been published in eight earlier volumes between 2003 and 2016, and this ninth volume in the collection looks at books XV and XVI. After completing the first ten books of De Civitate Dei, in which Augustine sought to refute the claim that pagan deities had ensured that Rome enjoyed unbroken success and prosperity in this life and guaranteed its citizens a blessed life after death, Augustine devoted the remaining twelve books to discuss the origins, development and destiny of the two cities of Babylon and Jerusalem, with the predominant emphasis on the city of God. This is the only edition of these books in English which provides not only a text but also a detailed commentary on one of the most influential documents in the history of western Christianity. Latin text with facing-page English translation, introduction and commentary.Table of ContentsPrefaceAbbreviations and BibliographyINTRODUCTIONNOTESTEXT AND TRANSLATION OF BOOK XV TEXT AND TRANSLATION OF BOOK XVICOMMENTARY ON BOOK XV COMMENTARY ON BOOK XVIIndices

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Book SynopsisHow did Latin Americans represent their own countries as modern? By treating modernity as a ubiquitous category in which ideas of progress and decadence are far from being mutually exclusive, this book explores how different groups of intellectuals, between the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century, drew from European sociological and medical theories to produce a series of cultural representations based on notions of degeneration. Through a comparative analysis of three country case studies − Argentina, Uruguay and Chile − the book investigates four themes that were central to definitions of Latin American modernity at the turn of the century: race and the nation, the search for the autochthonous, education, and aesthetic values. Using a transnational approach, it shows how civilizational constructs were adopted and adapted in a post-colonial context where cultural modernism foreshadowed economic modernization. In doing this, this work sheds new light on the complex discursive negotiations through which the idea of ‘Latin America’ became gradually established in the region.Trade ReviewReviews 'This strikingly original book analyses how intellectuals in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay explored the concept of degeneration as inherent within their emerging modern nations. In this interpretation, the Latinity of Latin America is seen not as the wellspring of civilisation but as a source of over refined decadence. Thus there is a paradox at the heart of their nations whose development was based on widespread immigration from southern Europe: that progress and modernisation were inextricably bound up with Latin decadence and degeneration. Ways out of this dilemma were found by promoting different forms of regeneration. Based on a vast range of primary and secondary sources, theoretically informed, elegantly structured and fluently written, this comparative study offers a fresh and very substantial contribution to our understanding of the processes of modernity and modernisation in Latin America.' John King, University of Warwick‘Two key ideas are at the core of Coletta's important book on Spanish American modernities at the turn of the twentieth century. The first is that a common thread runs through the ways in which these 'multiple modernities' unfolded in the region: the widely accepted polarity between 'progress' and 'degeneration' (or 'civilization' and 'barbarism') can be seen, rather than as a rigid relation between opposites, as an intrinsically complementary one. [...] The second idea that informs the book is that the notion of 'Latinity' is key to understanding the forces of regeneration that were advocated to free the young American nations from modernity's 'degenerative' tendencies.’ Eduardo Zimmermann, Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe‘The book makes use of extensive primary sources, from which telling details are selected. It gathers together key contributions from the time (for example, that of Carlos Octavio Bunge) as well as those contributions that history has unfairly – though perhaps inevitably – forgotten. It is at its most effective when working outwards from these texts.’ Adam Sharman, Journal of Latin American StudiesTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGEMENTSINTRODUCTIONCHAPTER 1: ‘Raza Latina: Immigration and Decadence at the Fin-de-Siècle’1.1 ‘Introduction: Race and Nation in the Southern Cone’1.2 ‘Uruguay: Antieuropeísmo and Tradition’1.3 ‘Immigration and Civilization in Argentina’1.4 ‘Raza Latina and Raza Chilena’1.5 ConclusionCHAPTER 2: ‘Mythologising the Internal Other: Rural Tradition as Antidote to Modern Civilization’2.1 ‘Introduction: Literary Criollismos and National Culture’2.2 ‘Argentina and Uruguay: The Raza Vencida’2.3 ‘The Gaucho Oriental: Tratado de la Imbecilidad del País’2.4 ‘Chile: Geografía Humanizada’2.5 ConclusionCHAPTER 3: ‘National Regeneration and the Education of the Latin American Elites’3.1 ‘Introduction: Education vis-à-vis Racial and Cultural Determinism’3.2 ‘Krausismo and the Escuela Nueva: Two Models of Education3.3 ‘Intellectual Education versus Practical Education’3.4 ‘National Language and Education in the River Plate’3.5 ConclusionCHAPTER 4: ‘Against the Poetics of Decadence: Latin America and the Aesthetics of Regeneration’4.1 ‘Introduction: The Sociology of Art in the Southern Cone’4.2 ‘José Enrique Rodó and Rubén Darío’4.3 ‘Ariel and Aesthetic Education’4.4 ‘Arielismo and the Politics of Aesthetics’4.5 ConclusionCONCLUSIONBIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX

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Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary collection focuses on the history of the future and in particular how Irish people in the nineteenth century thought about their future, in many different ways and contexts. It spans the long nineteenth century from c. 1800 to c. 1914 and includes both people living on the island of Ireland and the Irish abroad, women and men, the religious and the secular, the governing and the governed. It explores – both individually and collectively – the various hopes, dreams, fears and visions of the future that permeated through nineteenth-century Ireland and Irish life. The collection also analyses how the Irish future was conceptualized and understood in different cultural contexts, how visions of the future shifted in relation to the present and the past, and how the future was instrumentalized for political, religious or other social agendas. It attempts to go beyond the usual political or religious discourses on what the future might hold for Irish people and consider a broader spectrum of witnesses from a mixture of historical and literary sources.CONTRIBUTORS: Patrick Bethel, Richard J. Butler, Pauline Collombier-Lakeman, Sophie Cooper, Catherine Healy, Peter Hession, Raphaël Ingelbien, Jim Kelly, Fiona Lyons, Aoife O'Leary McNeice, Patrick Maume, Christopher P. Morash, Loughlin J. Sweeney.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Dreams of the Future in Nineteenth-Century Ireland Richard J. ButlerSection 1: The Future and The Past1. Dreaming the Future while Arguing the Past: Temperaments and Temporalities in Irish WritingJim Kelly2. ‘Shrovetide will be a Merry Time in Ireland Yet’: Fenian Visions of Ireland’s FuturePatrick Bethel3. Imagining Alternative Political Futures for Ireland in the 1880s: the Example of Home Rule FictionPauline Collombier-Lakeman Section 2: Dreams and Diasporas4. Visions of Respectability: Charlotte Grace O’Brien and the Politics of Emigrant PhilanthropyCatherine Healy5. ‘The Language of the Conqueror in the Mouth of the Conquered is the Language of the Slave’: Visions for Ireland and for her Language as Depicted in Nineteenth-Century Irish American Print Media Fiona Lyons6. ‘The Future Destiny of these Countries’: The Young Ireland Generation and Nationalist Futures in Australia and Canada, 1848–1871Christopher P. Morash7. ‘To Cultivate a Spirit of Individual Independence and Self-Respect’: Melbourne Visions of an Irish Future in the 1880s Sophie Cooper8. Imagining Irish Futures in East Asia: Narratives of Encounter and Return among Professional Diasporas in China, c. 1860–1900 Loughlin J. Sweeney Section 3: Religious Futures9. Visions of the Future in Humanitarian Responses to the Great Irish FamineAoife O’Leary McNeice10. After Lammenais and L’Avenir: The Liberal Catholicism of Walter Sweetman and the Catholic Modernism of William Gibson, Second Lord Ashbourne Patrick Maume Section 4: From Here to Modernity11. Transatlantic Exchange, Urban Development, and Heterogeneous Engineering in the West of Ireland: Belmullet’s Unbuilt Railways, c. 1820–1920 Richard J. Butler12. Imagining the Railway Revolution in Pre-Famine Ireland: Technology, Governance, and the Drummond Commission, 1832–39Peter Hession13. P.J. Smyth’s Nationalist Dreams of a Free-Trading Ireland and Direct Sea Links with the European ContinentRaphaël Ingelbien

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Book SynopsisMacroeconomic analysis has undergone profound and controversial changes during the past twenty-five years and, as such, economists have developed and evolved their approaches to the discipline. Reflections on the Development of Modern Macroeconomics presents a collection of eight original essays, from leading scholars, each of which focuses on an important issue relating to these developments.These accessible, reflective surveys include: to stabilize or not to stabilize: is that the question? Brian Snowdon and Howard Vane the rhetoric and methodology of modern macroeconomics Roger Backhouse how relevant is Keynesian economics today? Keith Shaw what remains of the monetarist counter-revolution? Thomas Mayer macroeconomics: before and after rational expectations Patrick Minford the ups and downs of modern business cycle theory Cillian Ryan and Andrew Mullineux the role of imperfect competition in new Keynesian economics Huw Dixon politics and the macroeconomy: endogenous politicians and aggregate instability Brian Snowdon and Howard Vane This book will attract a wide readership among intermediate undergraduates, as well as postgraduates and lecturers in the fields of macroeconomics and the history of economic thought.Trade Review'An eclectic, insightful collection on the development of modern macroeconomics.' -- David C. Colander, Middlebury College, US'This is a superb book providing a comprehensive, authoritative and lucid coverage of today's macroeconomic debates. It is a welcome addition for both students and their teachers.'– Peter M. Jackson, University of Leicester, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. To Stabilize or not to Stabilize: Is that the Question? (B. Snowdon, H.R. Vane) 2. The Rhetoric and Methodology of Modern Macroeconomics (R.E. Backhouse) 3. How Relevant is Keynesian Economics Today? (G.K. Shaw) 4. What Remains of the Monetarist Counter-Revolution? (T. Mayer) 5. Macroeconomics: Before and After Rational Expectations (P. Minford) 6. The Ups and Downs of Modern Business Cycle Theory (C. Ryan, A.W. Mullineux) 7. The Role of Imperfect Competition in New Keynesian Economics (H.D. Dixon) 8. Politics and the Macroeconomy: Endogenous Politicians and Aggregate Instability (B. Snowdon, H.R. Vane)

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Book SynopsisDenis O'Brien has made an outstanding contribution to economics, and the history of economic thought in particular. This selection of original essays, by a distinguished group of contributors, pays tribute to his work in the areas of the history of economic analysis and methodology.The book opens with a preface by R.D. Collison Black which is followed by a biographical introduction to Denis O'Brien's career and his contributions to economics, including a full list of his publications. The authors then explore areas where Denis O'Brien has made an important mark: classical economics, the history of monetary economics, Marshall and microeconomics, and economic methodology.This book will be welcomed by academics and students of economic history, the history of economic thought and methodology.Table of ContentsContents: Preface Foreword 1. Introduction Part I: Monetary Economics 2. Historical Origins of the Cost-push Fallacy 3. The Classical Theory of Commodity Money under a Microscope 4. Pre-war Developments in Portfolio Theory Part II: Classical Economics 5. Does Luxury Consumption Promote Growth? 6. Adam Smith and Physiocracy 7. Adam Smith on Classes and Saving Part III: Marshall and Microeconomics 8. The Generational Contract in Classical and neoclassical Economic Thought 9. The Theory of Exchange in Retrospect 10. Marshall’s Theory of the Firm 11. Marshall on Marketing Part IV: Methodology 12. Institutionalism as ‘Scientific’ Economics 13. Adam Smith and General Equilibrium Theory 14. The Formalist Revolution or What Happened to Orthodox Economics after World War II? 15. Modelling Invention Index

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Book SynopsisThe computer revolution of the 1960s ushered in a golden period of econometric model building. Lawrence Klein was constantly in the forefront of this development. He was awarded the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for this and other contributions to applied econometrics.The 20th century witnessed a great expansion of economics as a scholarly discipline. The editor has chosen a selection of papers which sparked his interest as a student, a teacher and a researcher. This key volume includes both classic articles as well as lesser known papers which Professor Klein judges will stand the test of time.Table of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Preface Mark Blaug Introduction Lawrence R. Klein 1. A.W. Phillips (1957), ‘Stabilisation Policy and the Time-Forms of Lagged Responses’ 2. A.W. Philips (1958), ‘The Relation Between Unemployment and the Rate of Change of Money Wage Rates in the United Kingdom, 1861–1957’ 3. Michal Kalecki (1990), ‘A Macro-dynamic Theory of Business Cycles’ 4. Michal Kalecki (1990), ‘A Theory of the Business Cycle’ 5. Evsey D. Domar (1944), ‘The "Burden of the Debt" and the National Income’ 6. R.F. Harrod (1937), ‘Studies in the Theory of Economic Expansion’ 7. R.F. Harrod (1939), ‘An Essay in Dynamic Theory’ and ‘Errata’ 8. Joan Robinson (1933), ‘A Parable on Savings and Investment’ 9. Joan Robinson (1933), ‘The Theory of Money and the Analysis of Output’ 10. R.F. Kahn (1931), ‘The Relation of Home Investment to Unemployment’ 11. J.M. Keynes (1937), ‘The General Theory of Employment’ 12. R.M. Goodwin (1950), ‘A Non-linear Theory of the Cycle’ 13. R.M. Goodwin (1951), ‘The Nonlinear Accelerator and the Persistence of Business Cycles’ 14. Eugen Slutzky (1937), ‘The Summation of Random Causes as the Source of Cyclic Processes’ 15. Edmond Malinvaud (1969), ‘Capital Accumulation and Efficient Allocation of Resources’ 16. Leif Johansen (1972), ‘On the Optimal Use of Forecasts in Economic Policy Decisions’ 17. William Brainard (1967), ‘Uncertainty and the Effectiveness of Policy’ 18. Leonid Hurwicz (1944), ‘Stochastic Models of Economic Fluctuations’ 19. Leonid Hurwicz (1946), ‘Theory of the Firm and of Investment’ 20. J.v. Neumann (1945), ‘A Model of General Economic Equilibrium’ 21. Jacob Marschak (1947), ‘Economic Structure, Path, Policy, and Prediction’ 22. N. Kaldor (1940), ‘A Model of the Trade Cycle’ 23. Nicholas Kaldor (1941), ‘Rationing and the Cost of Living Index’ 24. Bert G. Hickman, Robert M. Coen and Michael D. Hurd (1975), ‘The Hickman-Coen Annual Growth Model: Structural Characteristics and Policy Responses’ 25. Knut Wicksell (1907), ‘The Influence of the Rate of Interest on Prices’ 26. Irving Fisher (1911), ‘"The Equation of Exchange", 1896–1910’ 27. Irving Fisher (1923), ‘The Business Cycle Largely a "Dance of the Dollar"’ 28. J.J. Polak (1939), ‘International Propagation of Business Cycles’ 29. Paul S. Armington (1969), ‘A Theory of Demand for Products Distinguished by Place of Production’ 30. P.J. Verdoorn (1951), ‘On an Empirical Law Governing the Productivity of Labor’ 31. P.J. Verdoorn (1956), ‘Complementarity and Long-Range Projections’ 32. P. de Wolff (1941), ‘Income Elasticity of Demand, a Micro-Economic and a Macro-Economic Interpretation’ 33. D.G. Champernowne (1953), ‘A Model of Income Distribution’ 34. William J. Baumol (1952), ‘The Transactions Demand for Cash: An Inventory Theoretic Approach’ 35. Oskar Lange (1938), ‘The Rate of Interest and the Optimum Propensity to Consume’ 36. Abba P. Lerner (1943), ‘Functional Finance and the Federal Debt’ 37. Abba P. Lerner (1944), ‘Interest Theory – Supply and Demand for Loans or Supply and Demand for Cash’ 38. Paul H. Douglas (1948), ‘Are There Laws of Production?’ 39. A.B. Atkinson (1997), ‘Bringing Income Distribution in From the Cold’ 40. Michio Morishima (1960), ‘Economic Expansion and the Interest Rate in Generalized von Neumann Models’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisThe explosive combination of nihilist leanings together with a craving for totalitarianism was an ideal of philosophers, cultural critics, political theorists, engineers, architects and aesthetes long before it materialised in flesh and blood, not only in technology, but also in fascism, Nazism, bolshevism and radical European political movements. "The Nihilist Order", originally published in three hardcover volumes and now published in a consolidated paperback edition with an encompassing new Introduction, inspired excellent review endorsements, both amongst the academic and public spheres -- and has been heralded as a great achievement in European intellectual and cultural history.Trade ReviewA provocative and illuminating thesis on Totalitarianism. -- Isaiah BerlinA turning point in the research of European modernity. -- Frankfurter Allgemeine ZeitungOhana has convincingly shown that a complex cultural, ideological and psychological syndrome, linking nihilism to totalitarianism, represented a significant factor in the gathering storm which marked the early twentieth century. -- Saul Friedlander, author of "The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 19391945"A major contribution to the understanding of the condition humain. -- Yehoshua Arieli, author of Individualism and Nationalism in American Ideology

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Book SynopsisThe First World War changed the dynamics of the European intellectual landscape in terms of international collaboration, the development of disciplines and new institutional visions. The conflict not only destroyed much of Europe's material cultural heritage, it also damaged the 19th-century humanist conception of the function of thought and problematised the position of the thinker in society. What is the intellectuals task in a time of destruction and death? This book spotlights the ways in which the war redrew the map of knowledge production and changed traditional paradigms, fundamentally altering the approach to intellectual work. Thinking became more democratic and specialised, with a range of voices tackling specific problems created by the war, but now more conspicuously related to particular causes. The focus on the viewpoints of the 1914-1918 intellectual cadre throws into perspective the ways in which the war changed the contents, methods and organisation of intellectual work. Part One looks at the war as an object of study; Part Two explores the methodological challenges the war entailed; and Part Three sheds light on the ways in which the conflict and its aftermath redrew the map of collaborative intellectual networks. The case-studies come from different disciplines and cover a range of contexts, from German engineering to British wartime periodicals. Revisiting the early 20th-century intellectual situation not only enriches our understanding of the dynamics of the Great War, it also assists in repositioning the role of the intellectual in the 21st century.

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Book SynopsisErudite, accessible and lucidly written, this book provides a stimulating introduction to the careers and main published works of the Nobel Memorial Laureates in Economics. It will prove to be an invaluable reference book on key figures in economics and their path-breaking insights. The vignettes should also encourage the reader to sample some of the Laureates' original works and gain a better understanding of the context in which new ideas were first put forward. Original features of the book include: a foreword by Professor Mark Blaug a review of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, including a biographical guide to potential future winners a table summarising the Laureates': year and country of birth; university and year of their first and higher degrees; their affiliation at the time of the award; broad field of study; and Prize citation comprehensive individual entries on each of the Laureates (including their photographs), covering their careers and main published works a glossary of selected associations, awards, institutions and societies. Written primarily for undergraduate and postgraduate students, this is also a book that many teachers and lecturers will want on their shelves. It will prove to be an invaluable reference tool for anyone wanting to understand how past events and individuals have helped mould contemporary economics.Trade Review'. . . this book will continue to share shelf-space next to my current textbooks. As a librarian, such utility makes this a desirable addition to any educator's collection. As a history of economic thought book, Vane and Mulhearn have brought together a breadth of information that can be found through disparate sources but at a cost of effort and, especially for students, qualitative decisions regarding sources. . . The convenience of their starting methodology, breadth over depth coverage, and clear intention of writing to an audience of students makes this a useful text.' -- Kirk Douglas Johnson, Journal of the History of Economic Thought'The essays summarizing the main achievements of the prize winners are well written and to the point. They are short enough that they never cause the reader to lose interest, but substantive enough to let you know what the winners' accomplishments amount to. These compact, factually accurate essays mark the real value of the book as a reference work. . . there is little for which to fault the authors. Vane and Mulhearn have done a very nice job with the book, and it is an added bonus that it includes a formal portrait photograph of each prize winner.' -- Bradley W. Bateman, History Political Economy'. . . Vane and Mulhearn have produced a useful reference work.' -- John Quiggin, Economic Analysis and Policy'This collection has the capacity to surprise the reader. You learn all sorts of new and sometimes admirable things about these economists and about the richness of the profession that is often obscured from students of the subject.' -- John Lodewijks, History of Economics ReviewTable of ContentsContents: Preface Foreword by Mark Blaug The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics: A Biographical Overview 1969: Ragnar Frisch 1969: Jan Tinbergen 1970: Paul Samuelson 1971: Simon Kuznets 1972: John Hicks 1972: Kenneth Arrow 1973: Wassily Leontief 1974: Gunnar Myrdal 1974: Friedrich von Hayek 1975: Leonid Kantorovich 1975: Tjalling Koopmans 1976: Milton Friedman 1977: Bertil Ohlin 1977: James Meade 1978: Herbert Simon 1979: Theodore Schultz 1979: Arthur Lewis 1980: Lawrence Klein 1981: James Tobin 1982: George Stigler 1983: Gerard Debreu 1984: Richard Stone 1985: Franco Modigliani 1986: James Buchanan 1987: Robert Solow 1988: Maurice Allais 1989: Trygve Haavelmo 1990: Harry Markowitz 1990: Merton Miller 1990: William Sharpe 1991: Ronald Coase 1992: Gary Becker 1993: Robert Fogel 1993: Douglass North 1994: John Harsanyi 1994: John Nash Jr. 1994: Reinhard Selten 1995: Robert Lucas Jr. 1996: James Mirrlees 1996: William Vickrey 1997: Robert Merton 1997: Myron Scholes 1998: Amartya Sen 1999: Robert Mundell 2000: James Heckman 2000: Daniel McFadden 2001: George Akerlof 2001: Michael Spence 2001: Joseph Stiglitz 2002: Daniel Kahneman 2002: Vernon Smith 2003: Robert Engle 2003: Clive Granger 2004: Finn Kydland 2004: Edward Prescott Glossary of Selected Associations, Awards, Institutions and Societies References Index

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Book SynopsisThis book restates the importance of the study of the history of ideas, in the context of the writings of economists. After an initial statement, a case study involving five methodological detours is considered. This is followed by an analysis of a flawed attempt to remedy the manifest deficiencies of the static general equilibrium model. A general overview of classical economics is followed by an account of the world of Alfred Marshall who did so much to bridge the gap between classical and neo-classical economics. The work of two great historians of economics, Edwin Cannan and J.R. McCulloch, is discussed, as well as that of Paul Samuelson who while a leading theorist has defied the narrow essentialism now fashionable, and remained a scholar. There are also three chapters dealing with one of the most learned writers on economics, Friedrich Hayek.Illustrated by discussions of methodological and historical issues, the book will be essential reading for economists, researchers and students of the history of economic thought.Trade Review'O'Brien is an exemplary economist, being at the forefront of the senior generation of economists who have made seminal contributions to the history of thought as part of a broader career in economics, in his case with important papers on customs union theory and industrial economics.' -- Roger Middleton, Journal of the History of Economic ThoughtTable of ContentsContents: Preface Part I: Introduction 1. Introduction Part II: Methodology 2. History of Economic Thought as an Intellectual Discipline 3. Five Methodological Detours 4. Information and Investment in a Wider Context Part III: History of Economic Thought 5. Classical Economics: An Overview 6. Marshall’s World in His Correspondence 7. Cannan: Theory and the History of Economic Thought 8. Friedrich August von Hayek 9. Hayek: The Union of Law and Economics 10. Hayek in the History of Economic Thought 11. McCulloch and the Literature of Economics 12. Samuelson: The Theorist as Historian of Economic Thought Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis fascinating book brings together and examines all aspects of the life and work of one of the most influential thinkers of the last century, John Maynard Keynes, whose theses are still hotly debated. It combines, in an accessible, unique and cohesive manner, analytical, biographical and contextual elements from a variety of perspectives.Gilles Dostaler studies in detail the battles that Keynes led on various fronts - politics, philosophy, art, and of course economics - in the pursuit of a single and lifelong goal: to radically transform society to create a better world, a world pacified and freed from the neurotic pursuit of financial wealth and economic rentability, with art at its pinnacle. Containing detailed presentations of the Bloomsbury group and the political history of Great Britain, Keynes and his Battles is an essential reference to this most important of 20th century figures whose central message remains as topical today as it ever was. The study also contains a unique chronology of Keynes's life and historical events, portraits of Keynes by his friends and contemporaries, as well as a full bibliography of all his books, chapters contributed to books, journal articles and reviews.Scholars, students and researchers of economics, history of economic thought, political science, sociology, history, philosophy and the history of arts will find this an absorbing and revealing work. The book should also interest journalists, decision makers in society and all those who are preoccupied by the problems of our time.Trade Review'The book provides a fresh and interesting approach to the man and his thinking. . . serves as a useful, highly readable and thoroughly researched introduction to Keynes.'Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Ethics: The Sources of Keynes’s Vision First Interlude: Bloomsbury and the Apostles 3. Knowledge: Uncertainty, Probabilities and the Moral Sciences 4. Politics: Beyond Liberalism and Socialism Second Interlude: The Political History of Great Britain During the Time of Keynes 5. War and Peace: From the Boer War to Versailles 6. Money: Economic Motor and Social Pathology 7. Labour: The Battle Against Unemployment 8. Gold: An International Monetary System in the Service of Humanity 9. Art: Theoretician, Consumer and Patron of the Arts 10. Conclusion: From Keynes to Keynesianism Appendix 1. Keynes and his Time: Chronology Appendix 2. Maynard as Seen by his Friends and Contemporaries Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review‘Perspectives on the History of Economic Thought presents a careful selection of the most important and original contributions to the annual proceedings of the History of Economics Society. This series is essential to any serious student of the history of economics and to the collection of any University library supporting research in economic thought.’ -- The late Mark Blaug, formerly of the University of London and University of Buckingham, UK’. . . volume V can certainly be recommended to economists with an interest in classical and pre-classical thought, whilst those with an interest in Keynes will profit from reading volume VI.’ -- Roger E. Backhouse, The Economic JournalTable of ContentsContents: Part I: Interpretations of Keynes's Political and Early Economic Writing Part II: The Reception of Keynes's The Economic Consequences of the Peace Part III: Critiques of the Keynesian Perspective Part V: Supplementary Modern Topics

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Book SynopsisThis major reference work is a collection of over 125 of the best, most significant and influential articles in the field of social psychology. The three volume set provides a comprehensive overview of the field of social psychology including such topics as social cognition, attribution, attitudes, self, conformity, persuasion, groups, aggression, attraction, racism and research methods. Each article was selected on the basis of its contribution to the advancement of social psychological knowledge and to provide the reader with a representative sampling of the best articles in each of the major sub-fields (topics) of social psychology.Social Psychology covers over 70 years of social psychological research including articles of great historical significance and contemporary pieces destined to become classics in the field. It will be an essential reference source to those teaching graduate seminars as well as to the generalist seeking primary sources to provide an in-depth overview of the field of social psychology.Trade Review'The International Library of Critical Writings in Psychology, Social Psychology volumes - a carefully selected set of important contributions, which compares favourably to the excellent SPSSI collections produced in the 1950s and 1960s. At the same time, this collection is much more extensive and comprehensive than those valuable earlier collections. The decision to produce the writings in photo-reproduction form makes them especially useful as a scholarly resource.'Table of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction: What is Social Psychology? Volume I PART I: SOCIAL PERCEPTION AND JUDGEMENT 1. William I. Thomas and Florian Znnaniecki (1947), ‘The Definition of the Situation’ 2. S.E. Asch (1946), ‘Forming Impressions of Personality’ 3. Norman H. Anderson (1965), ‘Primacy Effects in Personality Impression Formation Using a Generalised Order Effect Paradigm’ 4. Carl I. Hovland and Muzafer Sherif (1952), ‘Judgmental Phenomena and Scales of Attitude Measurement: Item Displacement in Thurstone Scales’ 5. Lee Ross, David Greene and Pamela House (1977), ‘The "False Consensus Effect": An Egocentric Bias in Social Perception and Attribution Processes’ 6. Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman (1973), ‘Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases’ 7. David L. Hamilton and Robert K. Gifford (1976), ‘Illusory Correlation in Interpersonal Perception: A Cognitive Basis of Stereotypic Judgments’ 8. Baruch Fischhoff (1975), ‘Hindsight =/ Foresight. The Effect of Outcome Knowledge on Judgment Under Uncertainty’ 9. Paul M. Herr (1986), ‘Consequences of Priming: Judgment and Behavior’ 10. E. Tory Higgins, Gillian A. King and Gregory H. Mavin (1982), ‘Individual Construct Accessibility and Subjective Impressions and Recall’ 11. Elizabeth K. Dreben, Susan T. Fiske and Reid Hastie (1979), ‘The Independence of Evaluative and Item Information: Impression and Recall Order Effects in Behavior-Based Impression Formation’ PART II: SOCIAL COGNITION AND MEMORY 12. Shelley E. Taylor and Jennifer Crocker (1981), ‘Schematic Bases of Social Information Processing’ 13. Reid Hastie and Purohit Anand Kumar (1979), ‘Person Memory: Personality Traits as Organizing Principles in Memory for Behaviors’ 14. John W. Howard and Myron Rothbart (1980), ‘Social Categorization and Memory for In-Group and Out-Group Behavior’ 15. Michael Ross, Cathy McFarland and Garth J.O. Fletcher (1981), ‘The Effect of Attitude on the Recall of Personal Histories’ 16. Robert B. Zajonc (1960), ‘The Process of Cognitive Tuning in Communication’ 17. Renneé Weber and Jennifer Crocker (1983), ‘Cognitive Processes in the Revision of Stereotyping Beliefs’ 18. Murray G. Millar and Abraham Tesser (1986), ‘Thought-Induced Attitude Change: The Effects of Schema Structure and Commitment’ 19. Philip E. Tetlock (1986), ‘A Value Pluralism Model of Ideological Reasoning’ PART III: ATTRIBUTIONS AND EXPLANATIONS 20. Fritz Heider and Marianne Simmel (1944), ‘An Experiment Study of Apparent Behavior’ 21. Daryl J. Bem (1967), ‘Self-Perception Theory: An Alternative Interpretation of Dissonance Phenomena’ 22. Edward E. Jones and Victor A. Harris (1967), ‘The Attribution of Attitudes’ 23. Michael D. Storms (1973), ‘Videotape and the Attribution Process: Reversing Actors' and Observers' Points of View’ 24. Lee Ross, Mark R. Lepper and Michael Hubbard (1975), ‘Perseverance in Self-Perception and Social Perception: Biased Attributional Processes in the Debriefing Paradigm’ 25. Richard E. Nissbett and Eugene Borgida (1975), ‘Attribution and the Psychology of Prediction’ 26. Harold H. Kelley (1973), ‘The Processes of Causal Attribution’ 27. Lee Ross (1977), ‘Shortcomings of the Intuitive Psychologist’ 28. Gifford Weary Bradley (1978), ‘Self-Serving Biases in the Attribution Process: A Reexamination of the Fact or Fiction Question’ 29. Miles Hewstone, Jos Jaspars and Mansur Lalljee (1982), ‘Social Representations, Social Attribution, and Social Identity: The Intergroup Images of "Public" and "Comprehensive" Schoolboys’ PART IV: SOCIAL EXPECTATIONS AND BEHAVIOR 30. N.T. Feather (1961), ‘The Relationship of Persistence at a Task to Expectation of Success and Achievement Related Motives.’ 31. Robert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson (1968), ‘Self-Fulfilling Prophecies in the Classroom: Teacher's Expectations as Unintended Determinants of Pupils' Intellectual Competence.’ 32. Carl O. Word, Mark P. Zanna and Joel Cooper (1974), ‘The Nonverbal Mediation of of Self-Fulfilling Prophecies in Interracial Interaction.’ 33. Richard L. Miller, Philip Brickman and Diana Bolen (1975), ‘Attribution Versus Persuasion as a Means for Modifying Behavior.’ 34. Mark Synder, Elizabeth Decker Tanke and Ellen Berscheid (1977), ‘Social Perception and Interpersonal Behavior: On the Self-Fulfilling Nature of Social Stereotypes.’ 35. Carol S. Dweck, William Davidson, Sharon Nelson and Bradley Enna (1978), ‘Sex Differences in Learned Helplessness: II. The Contingencies of Evaluative Feedback in the Classroom and III. An Experimental Analysis.’ 36. John M. Darley and Paget H. Gross (1983), ‘A Hypothesis-Confirming Bias in Labeling Effects.’ PART V ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOR 37. G.W. Allport (1935), ‘Attitudes.’ 38. Richard T. LaPiere (1934), ‘Attitudes vs. Actions.’ 39. Arthur W. Staats and Carolyn K. Staats (1958), ‘Attitudes Established by Classical Conditioning.’ 40. Daniel Katz (1960), ‘The Functional Approach to the Study of Attitudes.’ 41. Steven J. Breckler (1984), ‘Empirical Validation of Affect, Behavior and Cognition as Distinct Components of Attitude.’ 42. I. Ajzen and M. Fishbein (1980), ‘Theoretical Implications.’ 43. Russell H. Fazio and Carol J. Williams (1986), ‘Attitude Accessibility as a Moderator of the Attitude-Perception and Attitude-Behavior Relations: An Investigation of the 1984 Presidential Election.’ Name Index Volume II Acknowledgements PART I THE SELF-CONCEPT 1. Mark Synder (1974), ‘The Self-Monitoring of Expressive Behavior.’ 2. Robert A. Wicklund (1975), ‘Objective Self-Awareness.’ 3. Michael F. Scheier and Charles S. Carver (1980), ‘Private and Public Self-Attention, Resistance to Change, and Dissonance Reduction.’ 4. William J. McGuire and Alice Padawer-Singer (1976), ‘Trait Salience in the Spontaneous Self-Concept.’ 5. T.B. Rogers, N.A. Kuiper and W.S. Kirker (1977), ‘Self-Reference and the Encoding of Personal Information.’ 6. Hazel Markus (1977), ‘Self-Schemata and Processing of Information about the Self.’ 7. Robert W. White (1959), ‘Motivation Reconsidered: The Concept of Competence.’ 8. Anthony G. Greenwald (1980), ‘The Totalitarian Ego: Fabrication and Revision of Personal History.’ PART II SELF-MAINTENANCE AND SELF-ENHANCEMENT 9. Leon Festinger (1954), ‘A Theory of Social Comparison Processes.’ 10. Elliot Aronson and David R. Mettee (1968), ‘Dishonest Behavior as a Function of Differential Levels of Induced Self-Esteem.’ 11. J. Merrill Carlsmith and Alan E. Gross (1969), ‘Some Effects of Guilt on Compliance.’ 12. J. Brehm (1966), A Theory of Psychological Reactance, pp 1-12. 13. Abraham Tesser and Jennifer Campbell (1982), ‘Self-Evaluation Maintenance and the Perception of Friends and Strangers.’ 14. William B. Swann Jr. (1987), ‘Identity Negotiation: Where Two Roads Meet.’ 15. Claude M. Steele and Thomas J. Liu (1983), ‘Dissonance Processes as Self-Affirmation.’ 16. Steven Berglas and Edward E. Jones (1978), ‘Drug Choice as a Self-Handicapping Strategy in Response to Noncontingent Success.’ PART III SELF JUSTIFICATION 17. Leon Festinger and Elliot Aronson (1960), ‘Arousal and Reduction of Dissonance in Social Contexts.’ 18. Leon Festinger and James M. Carlsmith (1959), ‘Cognitive Consequences of Forced Compliance.’ 19. Elliot Aronson and Judson Mills (1959), ‘The Effects of Severity of Initiation on Liking for a Group.’ 20. A.R. Cohen (1962), ‘An Experiment on Small Rewards for Discrepant Compliance and Attitude Change.’ 21. Robert P. Abelson (1959), ‘Modes of Resolution of Belief Dilemmas.’ 22. Jonathan L. Freedman (1965), ‘Long-Term Behavioral Effects of Cognitive Dissonance.’ 23. Mark R. Lepper and David Greene (1975), ‘Turning Play into Work: Effects of Adult Surveillance and Extrinsic Rewards on Children's Intrinsic Motivation.’ 24. Dieter Frey (1982), ‘Different Levels of Cognitive Dissonance, Information Seeking and Information Avoidance.’ PART IV AFFECT AND EMOTION 25. Stanley Schacter and Jerome E. Singer (1962), ‘Cognitive, Social and Physiological Determinants of Emotional State.’ 26. R.B. Zajonc (1980), ‘Feeling and Thinking: Preferences Need no Inferences.’ 27. Paul Ekman, Wallace V. Friesen, Sonia Ancoli (1980), ‘Facial Signs of Emotional Experience.’ 28. Alice M. Isen, Thomas E. Shalker, Margaret Clark and Lynn Karp (1978), ‘Affect Accessibility of Material in Memory, and Behavior: A Cognitive Loop?’ PART V CONFORMITY AND OBEDIENCE 29. Muzafer Sherif (1947), ‘Group Influences upon the Formation of Norms and Attitudes.’ 30. Soloman E. Asch (1955), ‘Opinions and Social Pressure.’ 31. Stanley Milgram (1963), ‘Behavioral Study of Obedience.’ 32. Craig Haney, Curtis Banks and Philip Zimbardo (1973), ‘Interpersonal Dynamics in a Simulated Prison.’ 33. S. Moscovici, E. Lage and M. Naffrechoux (1969), ‘Influence of a Consistent Minority on the Responses of a Majority in a Color Perception Task.’ PART VI INTERPERSONAL INFLUENCE AND COMPLIANCE 34. Morton Deutsch and Harold B. Gerard (1955), ‘A Study of Normative and Informational Social Influences upon Individual Judgment.’ 35. Dominic Abrams, Margaret Wetherell, Sandra Cochrane, Michael A. Hogg and John C. Turner (1990), ‘Knowing What to Think by Knowing Who You Are: Self-Categorization and the Nature of Norm Formation, Conformity and Group Polarization.’ 36. Herbert C. Kelman (1958), ‘Compliance, Identification and Internalization: Three Processes of Attitude Change.’ 37. Jonathan L. Freedman and Scott C. Fraser (1966), ‘Compliance without Pressure: The Foot-in-the-Door Technique.’ 38. Robert B. Cialdini, Joyce E. Vincent, Stephen K. Lewis, José Catalan, Diane Wheeler and Betty Lee Darby (1975), ‘Reciprocal Concessions Procedure for Inducing Compliance: The Door-in-the-Face Technique.’ 39. Robert B. Cialdini, John T. Cacioppo, Rodney Bassett and John A. Miller (1978), ‘Low-Ball Procedure for Producing Compliance: Commitment then Cost.’ PART VII COMMUNICATION AND PERSUASION 40. Carl I. Hovland and Walter Weiss (1951), ‘The Influence of Source Credibility on Communication Effectiveness.’ 41. C. Hovland, O.J. Harvey and M. Sherif (1957), ‘Assimilation and Contrast Effects in Reaction to Communication and Attitude Change.’ 42. Norman Miller and Donald T. Campbell (1959), ‘Recency and Primacy in Persuasion as a Function of the Timing of Speeches and Measurements.’ 43. Elliot Aronson, Judith A. Turner and J. Merrill Carlsmith (1963), ‘Communicator Credibility and Communication Discrepancy as Determinants of Opinion Change.’ 44. William J. McGuire and Demetrios Papageorgis (1961), ‘The Relative Efficacy of Various Types of Prior Belief-Defense in Producing Immunity Against Persuasion,’ 45. Robert B. Zajonc (1968), ‘Attitudinal Effects of Mere Exposure.’ 46. Howard Leventhal, Robert Singer and Susan Jones (1965), ‘Effects of Fear and Specificity of Recommendation Upon Attitudes and Behavior.’ 47. Anthony R. Pratkanis, Anthony G. Greenwald, Michael R. Leippe and Michael H. Baumgardner (1988), ‘In Search of Reliable Persuasion Effects: III. The Sleeper Effect is Dead. Long Live the Sleeper Effect.’ 48. R.E. Petty, J.T. Cacioppo and R. Goldman (1981), ‘Personal Involvement as a Determinant of Argument-Based Persuasion.’ Name Index Volume III Acknowledgments PART I GROUP INFLUENCES AND DYNAMICS 1. Theodore M. Newcombe (1947), ‘Some Patterned Consequences of Membership in a College Community.’ 2. Kurt Lewin (1947), ‘Group Decision and Social Change.’ 3. Ronald Lippitt and Ralph K. White (1947), ‘An Experimental Study of Leadership and Group Life.’ 4. Seymour Lieberman (1956), ‘The Effects of Changes in Roles on the Attitudes of Role Occupants.’ 5. Leon Festinger (1950), ‘Informal Social Communication.’ 6. John W. Thibaut and Harold H. Kelley (1959), ‘Analysis and Concepts.’ 7. Irving L. Janis (1983), Groupthink (2nd edition), pp 2-5, 7-9, 174-177, 310. 8. Eugen Burnstein and Amiram Vinokur (1973), ‘Testing Two Classes of Theories about Group Induced Shifts in Individual Choice.’ 9. Robert B. Zajonc (1965), ‘Social Facilitation.’ 10. Bibb Latané, Kipling Williams and Stephen Harkins (1979), ‘Many Hands Make Light the Work: The Causes and Consequences of Social Loafing.’ PART II AGGRESSION 11. Neal E. Miller et al. (1947), ‘Frustration and Aggression.’ 12. Albert Bandura, Dorothea Ross and Sheila A. Ross (1963), ‘Imitation of Film-Mediated Aggressive Models.’ 13. Leonard Berkowitz (1964), ‘The Effects of Observing Violence.’ 14. Russell G. Geen, David Stonner and Gary L. Shope (1975), ‘The Facilitation of Aggression by Aggression: Evidence against the Catharsis Hypothesis.’ 15. David P. Phillips (1983), ‘The Impact of Mass Media Violence on US Homicides.’ 16. Dane Archer and Rosemary Gartner (1978), ‘Peacetime Casualties: The Effects of War on Violent Behavior of Noncombatants.’ 17. R.A. Baron (1977), ‘Prevention and Control of Human Aggression.’ PART III PROSOCIAL BEHAVIOR 18. James H. Bryan and Mary A. Test (1967), ‘Models and Helping: Naturalistic Studies in Aiding Behavior.’ 19. Bibb Latané and John M. Darley (1970), ‘Social Determinants of Bystander Intervention in Emergencies.’ 20. C. Daniel Batson, Bruce D. Duncan, Paula Ackerman, Terese Buckley and Kimberley Birch (1981), ‘Is Empathic Emotion a Source of Altruistic Motivation?’ 21. Alice M. Isen and Paula F. Levin (1972), ‘The Effect of Feeling Good on Helping: Cookies and Kindness.’ PART IV INTERPERSONAL ATTRACTION 22. Theodore M. Newcomb (1963), ‘Stabilities Underlying Changes in Interpersonal Attraction.’ 23. Elaine Hatfield, G. William Walster, Jane Piliavin and Lynn Schmidt (1973), ‘"Playing Hard to Get: Understanding an Elusive Phenomenon.’ 24. Elaine Hatfield, Vera Aronson, Darcy Abrahams and Leon Rottman (1966), ‘Importance of Physical Attractiveness in Dating Behavior.’ 25. Donn Byrne and Don Nelson (1965), ‘Attraction as a Linear Function of Proportion of Positive Reinforcements.’ 26. Elliot Aronson and Darwyn Linder (1965), ‘Gain and Loss of Esteem as Determinants of Interpersonal Attractiveness.’ 27. Karen Dion, Ellen Berscheid and Elaine Hatfield (1972), ‘What is Beautiful is Good.’ 28. Donald Dutton and Arthur P. Aron (1974), ‘Some Evidence for Heightened Sexual Attraction under Conditions of High Anxiety.’ 29. Douglas T. Kenrick and Robert B. Cialdini (1977), ‘Romantic Attraction: Misattribution Versus Reinforcement Explanations.’ PART V PREJUDICE AND RACISM 30. Daniel Katz and Kenneth W. Braly (1947), ‘Verbal Stereotypes and Racil Prejudice.’ 31. Kenneth B. Clark and Mamie P. Clark (1947), ‘Racial Identification and Preference in Negro Children.’ 32. Else Frenkel-Brunswick, Daniel J. Levinson and R. Nevitt Sanford (1947), ‘The Antidemocratic Personality.’ 33. Thomas F. Pettigrew (1959), ‘Regional Differences in Anti-Negro Prejudice.’ 34. Morton Deutsch and Mary Evans Collins (1958), ‘The Effect of Public Policy in Housing Projects Upon Interracial Attitudes.’ 35. Muzafer Sherif (1956), ‘Experiments in Group Conflict.’ 36. Henri Tajfel (1970), ‘Experiments in Intergroup Discrimination.’ 37. Samuel Gaertner and Leonard Bickman (1971), ‘Effects of Race on the Elicitation of Helping Behavior: The Wrong Number Technique.’ 38. Donald R. Kinder and David O. Sears (1981), ‘Prejudice and Politics: Symbolic Racism Versus Racial Threat to the Good Life.’ 39. Stuart W. Cook (1979), ‘Social Science and School Desegregation: Did We Mislead the Supreme Court?’ 40. Elliot Aronson and Diane Bridgeman (1979), ‘Jigsaw Groups and the Desegregated Classroom: In Pursuit of Common Goals.’ PART VI RESEARCHING SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 41. Carl I. Hovland (1959), ‘Reconciling Conflicting Results Derived from Experimental and Survey Studies of Attribute Change.’ 42. Philip E. Tetlock and Ariel Levi (1982), ‘Attribution Bias: On the Inconclusiveness of the Cognition-Motivation Debate.’ 43. William J. McGuire (1983), ‘A Contexualist Theory of Knowledge: Its Implications for Innovation and Reform in Psychological Reactance.’ 44. Robert B. Cialdini (1980), ‘Full-Cycle Social Psychology.’ 45. Douglas G. Mook (1983), ‘^n Defense of External Invalidity.’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisVolume VIII focuses on the theme of the dual aspects of method in the development of economic thought. It contains new papers that address methodolological issues, others that deal with the evolution of analytic techniques or the social or personal milieux in which ideas emerged and the extent to which they became part of the body of literature we call political economy.Trade Review'Perspectives on the History of Economic Thought presents a careful selection of the most important and original contributions to the annual proceedings of the History of Economics Society. This series is essential to any serious student of the history of economics and to the collection of any University library supporting research in economic thought.' -- The late Mark Blaug, formerly of the University of London and University of Buckingham, UK

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Book SynopsisThe Mercantilist School never presented a common front but is associated with a common outlook: the idea of specie or bullion as the essence of wealth and the notion that a positive balance of trade is an index of national welfare. It is also associated with an emphasis on population growth and low wages, a concern with full employment and the far reaching denial of foreign trade as a source of net gain to the world as a whole; that is, international trade was regarded as a zero-sum gain and particular nations were thought to benefit from international trade only at the expense of others. The underlying idea that a permanent balance of trade surplus should be beneficial to a nation has been a source of discussion right down to the present day.Table of ContentsContents: 1. E. Johnson (1933), 'Gerard de Malynes and the Theory of the Foreign Exchanges'. 2. H. Heaton (1937), 'Heckscher on Mercantilism'. 3. E.F. Heckscher (1950), 'Multilateralism, Baltic Trade, and the Mercantilists'. 4. C. Wilson (1951), 'Treasure and Trade Balances: Further Evidence'. 5. J.C. Riemersma (1952), 'Usury Restrictions in a Mercantile Economy'. 6. R.W.K. Hinton (1955), 'The Mercantile System in the Time of Thomas Mun'. 7. J.H. Dales (1955), 'The Discoveries and Mercantilism: An Essay in History and Theory'. 8. J.D. Gould (1955), 'The Trade Crisis of the Early 1620s and English Economic Thought'. 9. A.W. Coats (1957), 'In Defence of Heckscher and the Idea of Mercantilism'. 10. L. Herlitz (1964), 'The Concept of Mercantilism'. 11. R.C. Blitz (1967), 'Mercantilist Policies and the Pattern of World Trade, 1500-1750'. 12. L. Muchmore (1969), 'Gerard de Malynes and Mercantile Economics'. 13. L. Muchmore (1970), 'A Note on Thomas Mun's "England's Treasure by Foreign Trade"'. 14. H.O. Schmitt (1979), 'Mercantilism: A Modern Argument'. 15. R.B. Ekelund, Jr and R.D.Tollison (1980), 'Economic Regulation in Mercantile England: Heckscher Revisited'. 16. W.D. Grampp (1981), 'The Controversy over Usury in the Seventeenth Century'. 17. L.S. Moss (1987), 'The Subjective Mercantilism of Bernard Mandeville'. 18. L.H.Officer (1982), 'The Purchasing-Power-Parity Theory of Gerard de Malynes'. Name Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume presents critical writings on the work of the later mercantilists. Sir Josiah Child was elected a governor of the East India Company in 1681. His reputation as an economist rests on his book 'A New Discourse of Trade' published in 1693. His work stimulated a wide range of discussion of such topics as interest rates, population, wage policy, poor relief and colonization. Despite many liberal elements in his thinking, he was a typical Mercantilist in his preference for administrative solutions to economic problems. John Locke, best known for his work on political philosophy, made a major contribution to the debate on the rate of interest in his essay 'Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest and Raising the Value of Money' (1692). The central theme of that pamphlet was that the rate of interest, being the price for the hire of money, is determined by the demand for and supply of money, which Parliament is powerless to affect. Locke's other major contribution to economic thought was the so called labour theory of private property contained in the 'Two Treaties on Government' (1690), a classic in the history of political philosophy.Table of ContentsContents: 1. W.H. Price (1906), 'The Origin of the Phrase “Balance of Trade'" 2. F.W. Fetter (1935), 'The Term “Favorable Balance of Trade'" 3. E.F. Hecksher (1936), 'Revisions in Economic History: Merchantilism' 4. A.V. Judges (1939), 'The Idea of a Mechantile State' 5. J. Viner (1948), 'Power Versus Plenty as Objectives of Foreign Policy in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries' 6. C. Wilson (1949), 'Treasure and Trade Balances: The Mercantilist Problem' 7. W.D. Grampp, 'The Liberal Elements in English Mercantilism' 8. J.M. Low (1953), 'A Regional Example of the Mercantilist Theory of Economic Policy' 9. D.C. Coleman (1956), 'Labour in the English Economy of The Seventeenth Century' 10. C. Wilson (1957), 'Mercantilism: Some Vicissitudes of an Idea' 11. D.C. Coleman (1957), 'Eli Heckscher and the Idea of Mercantilism' 12. C.H. Wilson (1959), 'The Other Face of Mercantilism' 13. H.F. Kearney (1959), 'The Political Background to English Mercantilism' 14. J. Sperling (1962), 'The International Payments Mechanism in the Seventeen and Eighteenth Centuries' 15. R. Davis (1966), 'The Rise of Protection in England' 16. W.R. Allen (1970), 'Modern Defenders of Mercantilis Theory' 17. A.W. Coats (1973), 'The Interpretation of Mercantilist Economics: Some Historiagraphical Problems'; W.R. Allen, 'Rearguard Response' 18. A.H. Leigh (1974), 'John Locke and the Quantity Theory of Money' 19. S. Rashid (1980), 'Economists, Economic Historians and Mercantilism' 20. C.G. Uhr (1980), 'Eli F. Hecksher, 1879-1952, and his Treatise on Mercantilism Revisited' Name Index

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Book SynopsisPierre le Pesant Boisguilbert was considered by Marx as one of the founders of classical political economy. His writings contain a large number of concepts and ideas that reappear in the writings of Quesnay, Cantillon and Adam Smith. George Berkeley - a major figure in the history of philosophical idealism - was the author of 'The Querist', a treatise on the nature of Irish under-development and cures for Irish poverty. Baron de Montesquieu - one of the great 18th century polymaths - is author of the masterpiece 'The Spirit of the Laws' (1748) which, while ostensibly a treatise on law, is actually a study of political organization, types of government, national character and the determining ethos of different societies. It enjoyed enormous success in the 18th century and was almost certainly read and studied by Adam Smith. Ferdinando Galiani was a leading critic of physiocracy and a major 18th century proponent of the subjective theory of value. In 1751 he published 'Della Moneta' which contains some notable chapters on monetary theory, and some brilliant pages on the utility theory of value. James Anderson was a Scottish farmer and a prolific author of tracts on the agricultural development of Scotland and the outstanding policy issues of the last quarter of the 18th century. Dugald Stewart was author of 'Account of the Life and Writings of Adam Smith LLD' (1793) which is one of the earliest, extended commentaries on the works of Adam Smith by one who knew him well.

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Book SynopsisJohn Law was one of those extraordinary personalities in which the 18th century seemed to abound. He held a demand-and-supply theory of value and treated the value of money or the determination of the average level of prices as only a special case of a general theory of value. Law eventually became Minister of Finance in France and was responsible for the greatest speculative frenzy in her history known as the Mississippi Bubble. When the boom collapsed in the closing months of 1720, Law was forced to flee France, permanently discredited, and spent his declining years as a professional gambler in Venice.In The Fable of the Bees: Private Vices, Public Benefits Bernard Mandeville argued that self-interest was a moral vice. Mandeville's satire was deliberately designed to give offence as if to encourage the re-examination of traditional beliefs : conspicuous consumption of luxury goods, the fashionable display of foreign imports, crime, and even natural disasters like the Fire of London all promote the 'division of labour' (Mandeville's term) and contribute to a brisk trade and fall in unemployment, whereas such supposed virtues as thrift and charity contribute to poverty and stagnation. The Fable of the Bees was widely read in the 18th century and criticized by all the leading thinkers of the day.

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Book SynopsisFrancois Quesnay is best known for the Tableau Economique, the proposition that only agriculture generates a positive 'net product' and that industry is 'sterile'. He recommended a 'single tax' on ground rent and invented the slogan 'laissez faire, laissez passe'. He was the first to found a school of economists called the 'physiocrats' which enjoyed an immense vogue in France for about a decade in the 1750s. The practical programme of the physiocrats was to eliminate the vestiges of medieval tolls and restrictions in the countryside, to rationalize the fiscal system, to amalgamate small-holdings into large-scale agricultural estates, to free the corn trade from all mercantilist restrictions - in short to emulate England. Placed in its historical context these were eminently reasonable views but the attempt to provide these reforms with a watertight theoretical argument produced some forced reasoning and slightly absurd conclusions.Table of ContentsContents: Volume I Introduction 1. S. Bauer (1895), 'Quesnay's Tableau Économique' 2. A.I. Bloomfield (1938), 'The Foreign-Trade Doctrines of the Physicrats' 3. J.J. Spengler (1945), 'The Physiocrats and Say's Law of Markets. I' 4. J.J. Spengler (1945), 'The Physiocrats and Say's Law of Markets. II' 5. R.L. Meek (1951), 'Physiocracy and Classicism in Britain' 6. I Hishiyama (1960), 'The Tableau Économique of Quesnay' 7. W.J. Samuels (1961), 'The Physiocratic Theory of Property and State' 8. W.J. Samuels (1962), 'The Physiocratic Theory of Economic Policy' 9. R.M. Will (1965), 'Ecomic Thought in the Encyclopédie' 10. J. Johnson (1966), 'The Role of Spending in Physiocratic Theory' 11. R.V. Eagly (1969), 'A Physicratic Model of Dynamic Equilibrium' 12. V. Foley (1973), 'An Origin of the Tableau Économique' 13. W.A. Elits (1975), 'Francois Quesnay: A Reinterpretation. 1.' 14. W.A. Elits (1975), 'Francois Quesnay: A Reinterpretation. 2.' 15. A.L. Müller (1978), 'Quesnay's Theory of Growth: A Comment' 16. T. Barna (1976), 'Quesnay's Model of Economic Development' Volume II 1. S.J. Brandenburg (1931), 'The Place of Agriculture in British National Economy Prior to Adam Smith' 2. N.J. Ware (1931), 'The Physiocrats: A Study in Economic Rationalization' 3. L.A. Maverick (1938), 'Chinese Influences Upon the Physiocrats' 4. T.P. Neill (1949), 'The Physiocrats' Concept of Economics' 5. A. Philips (1955), 'The Tableau Économique as Simple Leontiev Model' 6. R.L. Meek (1960), 'The Interpretaion of the "Tableau Économique" 7. L. Herlitz (1961), 'The Tableau Économique and the Doctrine of Sterility' 8. T. Barna (1975), 'Quesnay's Tableau in Modern Guise' 9. S. Malle (1979), 'Marx on Physicocracy' 10. I Ross (1984), 'The Physiocrats and Adam Smith' 11. G. Vaggi (1985), 'The Role of Profits in Physiocratic Economics' 12. W. Elitis (1988), 'The Contrasting Theories of Industrialization of Francois Quesnay and Adam Smith.'

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Book SynopsisDavid Hume is best known for his work on political philosophy. However, he wrote a series of essays on money, population and international trade which must rank among the major economic writings of the 18th century. Certainly they influenced Adam Smith and have a sparkling quality that still makes them worth reading today. His statement of the so-called 'specie-flow mechanism' constituted his answer to the mercantilist concern with the maintenance of a chronic surplus in the balance of payments. He also put forward what is now known as the 'theory of creeping inflation' and advocated the notion that political freedom flows from economic freedom. James Steuart was a British mercantilist, the last in a long line stretching back to the 16th century. He advocated the entire armoury of mercantilist policies: the regulation of foreign trade to induce an inflow of gold, the promotion of industry by inducing cheap raw material imports, protective duties on imported manufactured goods, encouragement of exports, particularly finished goods because they are labour-intensive, control of the size of population by emigration and immigration to keep wages low, all capped by a denial of Hume's argument that an inflow of gold will only raise prices and thus drive gold abroad.Table of ContentsContents: 1. W.F. Stettner (1945), 'Sir James Steuart on the Public Debt'. 2. J.M. Low (1952), 'An Eighteenth Century Controversy in the Theory of Economic Progress'. 3. J.M. Low (1954), 'The Rate of Interest: British Opinion in the Eighteenth Century'. 4. M. Arkin (1956), 'The Economic Writings of David Hume - A Reassessment'. 5. W.L. Taylor (1957), 'A Short Life of Sir James Steuart: Political Economist'. 6. R.L. Meek (1958), 'The Economics of Control Prefigured by Sir James Steuart'. 7. R.V. Eagly (1961), 'Sir James Steuart and the "Aspiration Effect"'. 8. A.S. Skinner (1963), 'Sir James Steuart: Economics and Politics'. 9. A.S. Skinner (1962), 'Sir James Steuart: International Relations'. 10. A. S.Skinner (1965), 'Economics and the Problem of Method: An Eighteenth Century View'. 11. C.B. Luttrel (1975), 'Thomas Jefferson on Money and Banking: Disciple of David Hume and Forerunner of Some Modern Monetary Views'. 12. C.E. Staley (1976), 'Hume and Viner on the International Adjustment Mechanism'. 13. M.A. Akhtar (1978), 'Sir James Steuart on Economic Growth'. 14. M.A. Akhtar (1979), 'An Analytical Outline of Sir James Steuart's Macroeconomic Model'. 15. M.I. Duke (1979), 'David Hume and Monetary Adjustment'. 16. T. Mayer (1980), 'David Hume and Monetarism'. 17. A.S. Skinner (1981), 'Sir James Steuart: Author of a System'. 18. D.R. Raynor (1984), 'Hume's Abstract of Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments' Name Index.

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Book SynopsisThe first volume in the final section of the "Pioneers in Economics" series. This section of the series offers an assessment of significant economists of the 20th century, and this volume deals with Arthur Pigou.Table of ContentsProfessor Pigou's theory of unemployment, R.F. Harrod; Professor Pigou's theory of unemployment, S.E. Harris; Arthur Cecil Pigou, 1877-1959, Harry G. Johnson; Pigou and the "Pigou effect" - rendezvous with the author, Jacques Melitz; the appointment of Pigou as Marshall's successor, R.H. Coase; the appointment of Pigou as Marshall's successor - comment, A.W. Coats; Marshall on Pigou's wealth and welfare, Krishna Bharadwaj; Pigou, taxation and public goods, A.B. Atkinson and N.H. Stern; the appointment of Pigou as Marshall's successor - the other side of the coin, T.W. Jones; Pigou - an extension of Sidgwickian thought, Margaret G. O'Donnell; Pigou on expectations and the cycle, David A. Collard; were the ordinalists wrong about welfare economics, Robert Cooter and Peter Rappoport; a new look at the ordinalist revolution - comments on Cootes and Rappoport, Pieter Hennipman; reply to Professor Hennipman, Peter Rappoport.

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Book SynopsisThe third volume in the final section of the "Pioneers in Economics" series. This section of the series offers an assessment of significant economists of the 20th century, and this volume deals with Edward Chamberlin.Table of ContentsMarket imperfection and excess capacity, Nicholas Kaldor; Professor Chamberlin on monopolistic and imperfect competition, Nicholas Kaldor; Chamberlin versus Chicago, G.C. Archibald; more on Archibald versus Chicago, Milton Friedman; reply to Chicago, G.C. Archibald; the theory of monopolistic competition after thirty years, Joe S. Bain; the genesis of Chamberlinian monopolistic competition theory, Thomas P. Reinwald; of factor and commodity markets - a note on E.H. Chamberlin, A.S. Skinner; research programmes in competitive structures, D.P. O'Brien; E.H. Chamberlin - the origins and development of monopolistic competition, Andrew S. Skinner; the history of the theory of the firm from Marshall to Robinson and Chamberlin - the source of positivism in economics, Scott Moss; the marginalist controversy and the demise of full cost pricing, Frederic S. Lee; the genesis of Chamberlinian monopolistic competition theory - addendum, with a comment by Thomas P. Reinwald, Charles P. Blitch and Thomas P. Reinwald; Edward Chamberlin - the theory of monopolistic competition - a re-orientation of the theory of value, Andrew S. Skinner; the theory of monopolistic competition - E.H. Chamberlin's influence on industrial organization theory over sixty years, R. Rothschild.

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Book SynopsisThe fourth volume in the final section of the "Pioneers in Economics" series. This section of the series offers an assessment of significant economists of the 20th century, and this volume deals with Michal Kalecki.Table of ContentsIntroduction, Mark Blaug; Michal Kalecki on teh economics of capitalism, Joan Robinson; Kalecki at Oxford, 1940-44, G.D.N. Worswick; Kalecki at the United Nations, 1946-54, Sidney Dell; Kalecki's economics of socialism, Wlodzimierz Brus; Michal Kalecki, Edward Lipinski; Kalecki's political economy - a comparison with Keynes, Emprime Eshag; Bogulslawa Kinda-hass, kalecki's review of Keynes' general theory, Ferdinando Targetti; kalecki's degree of monopoly, Peter J. Reynolds; some ties of Kalecki to the 1926 "Sraffian Manifesto", Claudio Sardoni; Galbraith, Sraffa, Kalecki and supra-surplus capitalism, E. Ray Canterbery; Kalecki's pricing theory, Liliana Basile and Neri Salvadori; Kalecki and Keynesian on finance investment and saving, A. Asimakopulos; Michael Kalecki's contribution to the theory and practice of socialist planning, D.M. Nuti; Kalecki's price theory revisited, Peter Kriesler; Keynes, Kalecki, ricardian equivalence, and the real balance effect, Robert W. Dimand.

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Book SynopsisThe seventh volume in the final section of the "Pioneers in Economics" series. This section of the series offers an assessment of significant economists of the 20th century, and this volume deals with Harry Johnson.Table of ContentsHarry G. Johnson, Jagdish N. Bhagwati; Harry Johnson - macroeconomist, Thomas J. Courchere; Harry Johnson's contributions to the pure theory of international trade, Richard G. Lipsey; the balance of payments - a survey of Harry Johnson's contribution, John F. Helliwell; Harry Johnson's contribution to international trade theory, W.M. Corden; Harry Johnson as a macroeconomist, David Laidler; Harry G. Johnson as a development economist, Arnold C. Harberger and David Wall; Harry Johnson as a social scientist, Richard E. Caves.

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Book SynopsisThe eighth volume in the final section of the "Pioneers in Economics" series. This section of the series offers an assessment of significant economists of the 20th century, and this volume deals with Bertil Ohlin.Table of ContentsOn the forumulation of monetary theory, Bertil Ohlin; substantive changes in the final version of Ohlin's 1933 paper, Otto Steiger; what was new in Ohlin's 1933-34 macroeconomics?, Hans Brems; some observations on Ohlin's 1933 article, Don Patinkin; a comment, Hans Brems; prelude to the theory of a monetary economy - origins and significance of Ohlin's 1933 approach, Otto Steiger; Ohlin's 1933 reformation of monetary theory, William P. Yohe; Bertil Ohlin, 1899-1979, Otto Steiger; Stockholm and Cambridge - four papers on the monetary and employment theory of the 1930s, Bertil Ohlin and Otto Steiger; unemployment, Keynes, and the Stockholm School, Bent Hansen.

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Book SynopsisThis important new book presents a lucid introduction to political thought from Socrates to the present. It successfully marries the hitherto diverse traditions of history and theory in the search for political understanding.Political theorists share in common an attempt to reveal the reality which underlies the world of politics. Is there a key to unlock the mysteries of politics? And if there is, what impact does this have on morality? Is politics a separate world or one which should serve a moral purpose? By examining major thinkers both in the context of their own time and their relevance to the present, the book shows how political theory can be applied to major controversies in the 20th century.Political Theory in Retrospect makes an important contribution to historical discussion and philosophical analysis. It successfully integrates political theory into the study of modern politics.Trade Review'A concise and engagingly written introductory survey of the history of political thought from Socrates to the 20th Century. . .'Table of ContentsAthens and Socrates; Plato; Aristotle; Machiavelli; Hobbes; Locke; Rousseau; Burke; Bentham; Mill; Marx - interlude; liberalism; conservatism; socialism.

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Book SynopsisThis innovative book offers retrospective assessments of historical ideas and probes controversial issues in economic methodology. The essays are presented under five broad headings. Part I, Economic Discourse and Method consists of three essays that address timely topics in the methodology of economics. Part II, Philosophical/Analytical Issues in Classical Economics, contains two studies of Adam Smith and one of Thomas Malthus. Part III, Money and Banking Issues in the Nineteenth Century contains two essays that evaluate monetary controversies occurring more or less simultaneously on both sides of the Atlantic. Part IV, Equilibrium Models/Debates: Walras, Keynes, Pigou is loosely threaded around the theme of equilibrium models - their nature and significance in the works of Walras, Keynes and Pigou. Part V, the final section, The Discovery and Dissemination of Ideas, deals with the discovery and dissemination of ideas in economics.The volume presents some of the most important recent work in economic methodology and the history of economic thought and will be essential for both economists and libraries specializing in these areas.Trade Review'Perspectives on the History of Economic Thought presents a careful selection of the most important and original contributions to the annual proceedings of the History of Economics Society. This series is essential to any serious student of the history of economics and to the collection of any University library supporting research in economic thought.'Table of ContentsPart 1 Economic discourse and method: rhetoric and methodology, Roger E. Backhouse; criteria of scientificity and methodology of the social sciences - Menger, Mises, and Hayek, D. Dufourte and Pierre Garrouste; Kirzner vs. Becker - rationality and mechanisms in economic discourse, Maurice Lagueux. Part 2 Philosophical/analytical issues in classical economics: Adam Smith's critique of the free market economy, spencer J. Pack; the renaissance of Adam Smith in modern theories of international trade, Bruce Elmslie and Antoinette M. James; the great chain of being - a possible source of Malthus's metaphysics, Scot A. Stradley. Part 3 Money and banking issues in the 19th-century: New England's depression-proof free banking system - the viewpoints of Henry Charles Carey and Charles Coquelin, Philippe Nataf; thomas Attwood - crude inflationist or precursor of modern analysis of money and banking?, Sylvie Diatkine. Part 4 Equilibrium models/debates - Walras, Keynes, Pigou: Walras' general equilibrium model, Jan van Daal and Albert Jolink; Keynes, equilibrium, and modern economic analysis, Giovanni Caravale; Keynes vs. Pigou on the economics of war, William J. Barber. Part 5 The discovery and dissemination of ideas: the "discovery" of two-stage least squares, Robert L. Basmann; Japanese modern economics, 1930-1945, Aiko Ikeo.

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Book SynopsisEconomic Thought since Keynes outlines the evolution of economic thought since the publication of The General Theory, putting into perspective the trends, issues and developments in economics over the last half century. The book begins with an historical account of the schools, debates and issues that have characterised economic thought over the past 50 years, and the authors who have played major or significant roles. This is followed by a dictionary in which 150 economists are featured with biographical details, a bibliography of their major published works, an analysis of their contributions to economic thought and a guide to the secondary literature. An important feature of the volume is a detailed and comprehensive index which will make it an invaluable source for both teaching and research.Trade Review'The history of very recent economic thought has been sadly neglected. This book seeks to fill this gap. Beaud and Dostaler describe and analyse recent and still current trends in economic thought since the death of Keynes: the aftermath of the Keynesian revolution. . . . supply-side economics, general equilibrium theory, game theory, Marxian economics, the new institutionalism, and much more besides. And they top this survey by a who's who of 150 contemporary authors who have played significant roles in modern economics. This is a book that has no parallel in the secondary literature. It is a unique contribution to the historiography of the recent past of our subject.'Table of ContentsPart 1 Outline of a history of economic thought since Keynes: Keynes and "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money"; the Keynesian revolution; the triumph of interventionism; axiomatization, formalization, mathematicization; a new orthodoxy - the neoclassical synthesis; heterodoxies - permanence and revival; the liberal resurgence; new macroeconomics; on Babel and three figures of contemporary economic thought.

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Book SynopsisWicksteed's classic work, The Co-ordination of the Laws of Distribution, has a central place within the development of marginal productivity theory. It claimed to explain all 'factor returns' on a unified basis and to show how 'marginal productivity factor pricing' just exhausted the total product. It is presented here with a long introduction by the editor, Ian Steedman, who provides both a careful analysis of the text and an assessment of Wicksteed's place within the development of modern economics. This important new edition will make The Co-ordination of the Laws of Distribution accessible to a fresh generation of economists.Trade ReviewAcclaim for this Classic in the History of Economics:'This is a gem of a little book that every economist may read. . . ' -- Peter C. Dooley, The Economic Journal'. . . this is a book that, for the importance of the text and the quality and richness of the Introduction, well deserves to be read. . .' -- Fabio Ranchetti, History of Economic Ideas'Philip H. Wicksteed's Co-ordination of the Laws of Distribution (1894) is enough alone to insure for him a place of lasting importance in the history of economic thought. . . . its daring and its originality command the highest respect.' -- G.J. Stigler'P.H. Wicksteed, the purist of marginal theory.' -- P. Sraffa'[Wicksteed] set forth boldly the naked logic of the matter and also attempted a proof of the propositions - both of them guardedly affirmed but not proved by Marshall - that every "factor's" distributive share will under ideal conditions tend to equal its quantity multiplied by its marginal degree of productivity; and that those shares will tend to sum up to (to "exhaust") the net product of each firm and, in the sphere of social aggregates, Marshall's 'national dividend.' -- J.A. Schumpeter'Philip Wicksteed might well be regarded as the leading exponent among English economists of "neoclassical" distribution analysis in its purest form.' -- T.W. Hutchison

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Book SynopsisOskar Lange was one of the few economists able to observe first hand the three major economic systems that have been the hallmark of the 20th century. He learned about the economic backwardness of peripheral capitalism in pre-war Poland. Later he spent more than twelve years in the bastion of modern capitalism, the United States. After returning to Poland in 1948 he linked his fate to the creation and then reform of the Communist system.This important collection of Professor Lange's work, prepared by his disciple and close friend Tadeusz Kowalik, presents his most important work on the economic theory of socialism, economic planning, Marxism and 'bourgeois' economics. The volume makes an important contribution by improving access to the papers of an economist whose work was at the very heart of the intellectual conflict between socialism and capitalism in the late twentieth century.Trade Review'Lange's essays varied, occasionally self-contradictory but highly stimulating. They can be recommended for dipping in and out, as well as for sustained reading.' -- Martin Cave, The Manchester School

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Book SynopsisThe history of economics comprises the accumulated capital of the discipline; its study permits both the retrieval of important ideas and the conduct of analysis which places present day work in context. The essays in this book demonstrate some of the variety of uses to which the history of economics, as a sub-discipline, can be put.Economic Thought and Discourse in the 20th Century commences with an essay on John R. Hicks, one of the leading economic theorists of the twentieth century and a writer with much to say about the nature of economic theory and the functions of the history of economic thought. An essay on Thorstein Veblen examines a figure who is at once both idiosyncratic and monumental, and whose work on war and peace is seen both to have been deeply prescient at the time it was written, and to be critically relevant at the close of the twentieth century. The third piece in this collection is a study of the discursive and interpretative structure of Alfred Marshall's Principles of Economics. More than a century after its publication, the Principles is widely regarded as one of the most important, and immediately influential, works of economic science ever written. Yet, it is argued, Marshall's use of language and argument may well have been equal in importance to the analytical techniques which he demonstrated. The concluding essay on the early journal history of law and economics places in perspective much of the contemporary work in this area and suggests that more could be expected from a field with such a rich and suggestive history. These essays will make significant contributions both to their respective subjects and to the historiography of economics.Trade Review'There is. . . . much that is valuable in this account of Marshall. . . . This insightful evaluation of Veblen's complex perspectives on the subject of war and peace is a valuable addition to the rich Veblen literature. It is also a fascinating contribution to a topic most economists have ignored. . . . This volume provides a useful start by pointing out clearly that full understanding of the rich complexity of contemporary economics requires subscription to the dictum that economics has a useful past.' -- Peter Groenewegen, History of Economics ReviewTable of ContentsContents: 1. John R. Hicks and the History of Economics (W.J. Samuels) 2. Thorstein Veblen on War and Peace (J. Biddle and W.J. Samuels) 3. Aspects of the Discursive and Interpretative Structure of Marshall’s Principles (W.J. Samuels and T.W. Patchak-Schuster) 4. Law and Economics: Some Early Journal Contributions (W.J. Samuels) Index

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Book SynopsisFrom an international perspective the Swedish economy has some unique features and therefore affords a most interesting model for researchers in economic history. The country has experimented with numerous economic strategies including pre-Keynesian policies in the 1930s, active labour market policies and an extensive welfare system. This book covers the most important aspects of the Swedish economy: two brief sections concerning historiography and offering a general background to the subject are followed by a selection of articles on demography, migration, the labour market, agriculture, industrialization, transport, trade, industrial organization, finance and economic policy. The volume brings together a unique and comprehensive collection of the most significant studies on the development of the Swedish economy since 1870. Several of the contributions appear for the first time in English.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: Historiography Part II: General Part III: Demography Part IV: Migration Part V: Labour Market Part VI: Agriculture Part VII: Industrialization Part VIII: Transportation Part IX: Trade Part X: Industrial Organization Part XI: Money and Banking Part XII: Economic Policy Index

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Book SynopsisThe Handbook of Economic Methodology is a major multidisciplinary reference work on the developing field of economic methodology. It consists of more than a hundred specially commissioned essays by leading scholars from around the world. This definitive volume provides detailed and authoritative coverage of crucial topics and issues that have developed in recent decades and introduces a variety of emerging themes which economic methodologists have begun to explore. This comprehensive Handbook includes a variety of substantive entries in which experts in the field summarise past achievements in economic methodology and indicate the direction of future research. They provide biographical entries to introduce important economists, methodologists and philosophers. The volume also focuses on economic issues to which economic methodology is central and wider intellectual themes that have impinged on economic methodology, from general movements in intellectual history to broad philosophical themes. Orthodox and heterodox approaches to economics and epistemological, ontological, logical and normative dimensions of economic methodology are discussed and evaluated. This magnificent reference work presents a state-of-the-art analysis of the evolution of economic methodology as well as prospects for its future development. The Handbook of Economic Methodology will be indispensable to those with an interest in economic methodology, the philosophy of economics and the history of economic thought.Trade Review'The editors are to be congratulated on bringing together an impressive array of scholars. There are 93 contributors to the volume in a list that includes the authoritative names in economic methodology one would expect to be present.'

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Book SynopsisAmerican Economists of the Late Twentieth Century is a collection of essays on the work of 22 contemporary US economists. The essays summarize, place in perspective and appraise the work of a diverse array of accomplished scholars whose writings respresent the best, the most promising and the most innovative in the US. The economists whose work is discussed include Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Paul Davidson, Nancy Folbre, Robert H. Frank, Robert Heilbroner, David Kahneman and Amos Tversky, Paul Krugman, William Lazonick, Gregg Lewis, Richard R. Nelson and Sidney G. Winter, Mancur Olson, Nathan Rosenberg, Thomas Schelling, Vernon Smith, Robert A. Solo, Joseph Stiglitz, Richard Thaler, Lester Thurow and Oliver E. Williamson. The emphasis of the collection is on both the quality and diversity of the work - of different ways of doing economics as it is presently practised.Warren J. Samuels has brought together a series of original essays written by economists who are distinguished in their own right. Historians of economic thought, methodologists, general economists and specialists in the fields represented by the subjects will welcome American Economists of the Late Twentieth Century as a significant contribution to our understanding of contemporary American economic scholarship.Trade Review'Samuels has collected an excellent group of essays about important contemporary US economists. . . . this is a book that anyone interested in the debates or personalities of contemporary economics will enjoy.'Table of ContentsSamuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis; Paul Davidson; Nancy Folbre; Robert Frank; Robert Heilbroner; David Kahneman and Amos Tversky; Paul Krugman; William Lazonick; Gregg Lewis; Richard R. Nelson and Sidney Winter; Mancur Olson; Nathan Rosenberg; Thomas Schelling; Vernon Smith; Robert A. Solo; Joseph Stiglitz; Richard Thaler; Lester Thurow; Oliver Williamson.

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Book SynopsisItalian Economists of the 20th Century provides a unique up-to-date assessment and appreciation of the work of 12 pioneering economists. The essays - written by a group of leading international scholars - are a fitting tribute to the important contribution that Italian economists have made to twentieth century economics.This important book includes entries not only on familiar names such as Vilfredo Pareto, Piero Sraffa and Franco Modigliani, but also on less well known yet equally important economists. It demonstrates the rich intellectual tradition in Italy and its profound - yet often unrecognized - impact on economics in general.Trade Review’In a brief review of a fairly large volume it has not been possible to do justice to the richness of most of the chapters and the book can be recommended for closer study and for its useful guides for further primary and secondary materials. Many readers will benefit from it.’- Ian Steedman, History of Economic Thought NewsletterTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: Two Glimpses (F. Meacci) 2. Vilfredo Pareto (A. Kirman) 3. Maffeo Pantaleoni (P.D. Groenewegen) 4. Enrico Barone (P.C. Dooley) 5. Antonio De Viti De Marco (O. Kayaalp) 6. Marco Fanno (R. Arena) 7. Luigi Einaudi (F. Meacci) 8. Costantino Bresciani Turroni (H.D. Kurz) 9. Piero Sraffa (B. Schefold) 10. Franco Modigliani (C. Dangel) 11. Paolo Sylos Labini (J. Halevi) 12. Pierangelo Garegnani (G. Mongiovi) 13. Luigi L. Pasinetti (J.R. Teixeira) Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Sociology of the Environment, Michael Redclift and Graham Woodgate have brought together a diverse collection of writings from within the human sciences. These papers chart the progress which sociology has made in addressing the environment. Although they are not all written by sociologists, they do illuminate a number of largely unresolved issues for sociology, which mark important departures for the discipline and which necessitate a radical rethink of inherited assumptions.The readings are organized under a number of different themes, ranging from the theoretical foundations of the discipline to post-industrial Utopianism. Other areas covered include Marxism and the environment, neo-Malthusianism and environmental determination, biocentric theories, radical ecology, scientific enquiry and the environment, international perspection, and social movement and the environment. The editors conclude that sociology still has much to do in rising to the challenge of interpreting environmental change, indicating that this must be done by forging relationships with other disciplines, in which the contribution that sociology can make is underlined rather than lost.Table of Contents97 articles, dating from 1949 to 1993 Contents: Foundations, Marxism and the Environment, Neo-Malthusianism and Environmental Determination, Biocentric Theories: Deep Ecology, Gaia Ecofeminism, Radical Ecology, Scientific Enquiry and the Environment, International Perspection, Social Movement and the Environment and Post-Industrial Utopianism

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Book SynopsisThe History of Economics, the second volume of Takashi Negishi's collected essays, contains essays on the history of economics published over a period of 10 years.The range of topics covered in this volume is very wide, with essays and papers on Quesnay, Smith and the classical school, the Marxian school, the marginal revolution, Bohm-Bawerk and Wicksell, and Walras and Marshall. Some of these essays have made seminal contributions and have been widely cited while others were published in journals and festschrifts which are no longer easily available.Professor Negishi has prepared an introduction to this volume in which he discusses the contributions he made in these essays in the light of the most recent developments in the field.Trade Review'. . . a stimulating intellectual challenge to many readers.' -- Ian Steedman, The Manchester SchoolTable of ContentsPart 1 Classical and Marxian economics: expenditure patterns and international trade in Quesney's tableau economique; the role of demand in Adam Smith's theory of natural price; the labour theory of value in the Ricardian theory of international trade; Ricardo and Morishima on machinery; comments on Ekelund "Mill's Recantation of the Wages Fund"; Thornton's criticism of equilibrium theory and mill; on equilibrium and disequilibrium - a reply to Ekelund and Thommesen; F.D. Longe and refutation of classical theory of capital; Marx and Bohm-Bawerk in the theory of interest; Marx and Bohm-Bawerk; Samuelson, Saigal and Emmanuel's theory of international unequal exchange. Part 2 Marginal revolution and after: studies of von Thunen in Japan; a note on Jevons's law of indifference and competitive equilibrium; competition and the number of participants - lessons of Edgeworth's theorem; Bertrand's duopoly considered as an Edgeworth's game of exchange; non-Walrasian foundations of macroeconomics; Wicksell's missing equation - a comment; Wicksell's missing equation and Bohm-Bawerks three causes of interest in a stationary state; economic structure and the theory of economic equilibrium; on the non-existence of equilibrium; comment, minisymposium, the history of economics and the history of science.

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Book SynopsisThis is the first extensive treatment from a modern Austrian perspective of the history of economic thought up to Adam Smith and as such takes into account the profound influence of religious, social and political thought upon economics. In Economic Thought before Adam Smith, Murray Rothbard contends that laissez-faire liberalism and economic thought itself began with the Catholic scholastics and early Roman and canon law, rather than with Adam Smith. The scholastics, he argues, established and developed the subjective utility and scarcity theory of value, as well as the theory that prices, or the value of money, depend on its supply and demand. This continental, or 'pre-Austrian' tradition, was destroyed, rather than developed, by Adam Smith whose strong Calvinist tendencies towards glorifying labour, toil and thrift is contrasted with the emphasis in Scholastic economic thought towards labour in the service of consumption.Tracing economic thought from the Greeks to the Scottish Enlightenment, this book is notable for its inclusion of all the important figures in each school of thought with their theories assessed in historical context. Classical Economics, the second volume of Professor Rothbard's history of economic thought from an Austrian perspective, is also available.Trade Review'Rothbard's two-volume history of economic thought will inspire much fruitful discussion . . . Works that combine so much scholarship, clarity, freshness, and courage have become rare in economics.' -- Paul Heyne, The Independent Review'. . . the magnitude of Rothbard's achievement was such that his legacy is assured; his contribution to the cause of liberty in America will not only endure but continue to grow in stature. As an economist, he succeeded in firmly establishing the Austrian school of economics in America, expanding and refining the legacy of his own mentor, the great Ludwig von Mises.' -- Justin Raimondo, Chronicles'To say that Murray Rothbard wrote with a polemical flair is an understatement of astonishing proportions. . . . The volumes are beautifully produced by Edward Elgar and anyone interested in Rothbard's thought, the history of economic liberalism, and the history of economic thought in general, will want these volumes in their personal collection. An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought is vintage Rothbard, which means that the volumes are very readable, always unique in interpretation. . . . In short Rothbard's An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought is a major contribution to the history of economic thought in general, and to Austrian economics in particular, and it deserves a wide circulation. It ranks with the contributions to intellectual history - not as a textbook of the wrong opinions of dead men, but as an original theoretical work whose intellectual story, if listened to, would surely overturn the received wisdom of our day and lead to a major recasting of the disciplines of economics and of political economy.' -- Peter J. Boettke, Economic Affairs'. . . no review can do justice to the scores and scores of insights and scholarly discoveries in this volume. . . . Murray Rothbard's two volumes are a monument of twentieth century scholarship.' -- David Gordon, The Mises Review'. . . the most readable history of economic thought ever written. . .' -- Michael Prowse, America'. . . it provides an extremely wide-ranging treatment of the periods and topics it covers. . . . this is a controversial book, written from a clear-cut standpoint. . . . an extremely exciting, even brilliant book.' -- Roger E. Backhouse, History of Economic Thought'. . . consistently interesting and provocative - a pleasure to read. If you want a basic introduction to the development of economic ideas up to the mid-ninteenth century, I can't think of a more stimulating and enjoyable way to get it. Rothbard delivers his message in a bombastic and prophetic manner, condemning all the huge mistakes of his predecessors and never revealing a moment of self-doubt. This is not the meticulous and carefully qualified tone of a philosopher in the natural law tradition such as Aquinas; it is the voice of a Luther or a marx.' -- Robert H. Nelson, Liberty'Rothbard - not just the libertarian guru but the joyful and indefatigable scholar - makes the thinkers even of reputedly dreary epochs come alive. . . Rothbard's work helps underline why economists should study the history of thought. . . Rothbard's work will provide inspiration for rising generations of Austrian economists.' -- Leland B. Yeager, The Review of Austrian Economics'Rothbard's treatise makes a good case for the study of economic thought and provides a good introduction to Austrian economics by showing its links with earlier thinkers. . . . friend and foe alike will benefit from Rothbard's atypical approach. His discussions of every thinker are enriched with insights on philosophy, history, religion, political movements, and the philosophy of science. The two volumes are jam-packed with information and research ideas.' -- Mark Thornton, Southern Economic JournalTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. The first philosopher-economists: the Greeks 2. The Christian Middle Ages 3. From Middle Ages to Renaissance 4. The Late Spanish scholastics 5. Protestants and Catholics 6. Absolutist thought in Italy and France 7. Mercantilism: Serving the absolutist State 8. French Mercantilistic Thought in the Seventeenth Century 9. The Liberal Reaction Against Mercantilism in Seventeenth Century France 10. Mercantilism and Freedom in England from the Tudors to the Civil War 11. Mercantilism and Freedom in England from the Civil War to 1750 12. The Founding Father of Modern Economics: Richard Cantillon 13. Physiocracy in mid-Eighteenth Century France 14. The Brilliance of Turgot 15. The Scottish Enlightenment 16. The Celebrated Adam Smith 17. The Spread of the Smithian Movement Bibliographical Essay

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Book SynopsisThis major original reference work includes over one hundred specially commissioned articles on the lives and writings of women who made significant contributions to economics. It sheds new light on the rich, but too often neglected, heritage of women's analysis of economic issues and participation in the discipline of economics. In addition to those who wrote in English, some notable Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Russian and Swedish women economists are included. This book will transform widely-held views about the past role of women in economics, and will stimulate further research in this exciting but underdeveloped field. It is dedicated to the memory of Michele Pujol, a pioneer in the field.Trade Review'The editors should be congratulated for their excellent work on this handsomely produced biographical dictionary of women economists. . . all librarians should be induced, even in these financially straitened times, to add this work to their shopping list.'Table of ContentsContents: Edith Abbott: Claire Holton Hammond Ruth Alice Allen: Alexandra Bernasek & Douglas Kinnear Shirley Ann Montag Almon: Christopher McDonough-Dumler Elizabeth Faulkner Baker: Chris Nyland & Mark Rix Emily Greene Balch: Robert W. Dimand Käthe Bauer-Mengelberg: Claus-Dieter Krohn Hilde Behrend: Gudrun Biffl Cora Berliner: Claus-Dieter Krohn Krishna Bharadwaj: Krishna Bharadwaj Huguette Biaujeaud: G. Abraham-Frois Clementina Black: Susan King Rosalind (Hyman) Blauer: Lewis A. Soroka Barbara Bodichon: William D. Sockwell Olga Nikolajevna Bondareva: Tatiana E. Kulakovskaja & Natalia I. Naumova Helen Dendy Bosanquet: Peter Groenewegen Ester Boserup: Ingrid Henriksen & Niels Kærgård Emilia Jessie Boucherett: Susan H. Gensemer Marian E.A. Bowley: Bernard Corry Mary Jean Bowman: Evelyn L. Forget Dorothy Stahl Brady: Evelyn L. Forget Sophonisba Brekinridge: Claire Holton Hammond Elizabeth Read Brown: Christopher K. Ryan Martha Stephanie Browne: Jürgen Nautz Eveline Mabel Richardson Burns: Sherryl Davis Kasper Elizabeth Beardsley Butler: Susan H. Gensemer Heln Stuart Campbell: John B. Davis Agatha Louisa Chapman: Judith A. Alexander Margaret Cole: Giandomenica Becchio Clara Elizabeth Collet: Peter Groenewegen Katharine Coman: Robin L. Bartlett Costanza Costantino: Magda Fontana Caroline Wells Healey Dall: Robert W. Dimand Julie-Victoire Daubié: Christine Ivory Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys Davids: Robert W. Dimand Katherine Bement Davis: Claire Holton Hammond Marie Dessauer: Hans-Michael Trautwein Elisabeth Caroline van Dorp: Henk W. Plasmeijer Eleanor Lansing Dulles: Indra Hardeen Raya Dunayevskaya: M.C. Howard & J.E. King Minnie Throop England: Robert W. Dimand Millicent Garrett Fawcett: Michèle A. Pujol & Janet A. Seiz Ann Fetter Friedlaender: Evelyn L. Forget Rose Director Friedman: J. Daniel Hammond Elizabeth Waterman Gilboy: J.J. Thomas Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Mary Ann Dimand Fanny Ginor: Harald Hagemann Kirsten Gloerfelt-Tarp: Niels Kærgård Selma Evelyn Fine Goldsmith: Vibha Kapuria-Foreman Dorothy C. Goodwin: Shyamala Raman Margaret Gordon: Joyce P. Jacobsen Mariana Goudi: Michalis Psalidopoulos Marjorie Grice-Hutchinson: Aurora Gamez Lucy Barbara (Bradby) Hammond: Richard Kleer Amy Hewes: Peter Groenewegen Ursula Hicks: Joyce P. Jacobsen Elizabeth Ellis Hoyt: Alison Comish Thorne B.L. Hutchins: James P. Henderson Mary Quayle Innis: Anne Innis Dagg Alice Hanson Jones: Evelyn L. Forget Florence Kelley: Kathryn Kish Sklar Susan Myra Kingsbury: Susan H. Gensemer Karin Kock: Rolf Henriksson Anna Koutsoyiannis: Ronald G. Bodkin Hazel Kyrk: Richard A. Lobdell Käthe Leichter: Theresa Wobbe Charlotte Leubuscher: Philine Scholze & Therese Wobbe Helene Lieser: Jürgen Nautz Gertrud von Lovasy: Jürgen Nautz Rosa Luxemburg: Richard Kleer Jane Haldimand Marcet: Bette Polkinghorn Mary Paley Marshall: Rita McWilliams Tullberg Harriet Martineau: Evelyn L. Forget Jean Trepp McKelvey: Margaret Lewis Therese Schmid McMahon: Robert W. Dimand Mary Meynieu: Evelyn L. Forget Harriet Hardy Taylor Mill: Michèle A. Pujol Ilse Schüler Mintz: Jürgen Nautz Natalie Moszkowska: M.C. Howard & J.E. King Selma J. Mushkin: Deborah Haas-Wilson Margaret Good Myers: Brenda Spotton Visano Maria Negreponti-Delivani: Michalis Psalidopoulos Mabel Newcomer: Jean Shackelford Jessica Blanche Peixotto: Richard A. Lobdell Virginia Penny: Susan H. Gensemer Edith Tilton Penrose: Michael H. Best & Jane Humphries The Philip Family: Niels Kærgård Vera Cao Pinna: Graziella Fornengo Michèle A. Pujol: Robert W. Dimand Eleanor Rathbone: Janet A. Seiz Margaret Gilpin Ried: Evelyn L. Forget Joan Robinson: Zohreh Emami Clémence-Auguste Royer: Evelyn L. Forget Lise Salvas-Bronsard: Robert W. Dimand Koko (Takako) Sanpei: Aiko Ikeo Elizabeth Boody Schumpeter: Richard A. Lobdell Anna Jacobson Schwartz: Michael D. Bordo Nancy L. Schwartz: Morton I. Kamien Hannah Robie Sewall: Claire Holton Hammond Kate Sheppard: Prue Hyman Irene M. Spry: Judith A. Alexander & Karen Shopsowitz Maria Szecsi: Felix Butschek Setsu Tanino: Aiko Ikeo Maria da Conceição Tavares: Mauro Boianovsky Marguerite Thibert: Evelyn L. Forget Mabel Frances Timlin: Robert W. Dimand Cläre Tisch: Harald Hagemann Flora Tristan: Jean Shackelford Mary Abby Van Kleek: Chris Nyland & Mark Rix Priscilla Wakefield: Robert W. Dimand Phyllis Ann Wallace: Evelyn L. Forget Barbara Ward: Christopher K. Ryan & Ramakrishna Vaitheswaran Caroline Farrar Ware: Frederic S. Lee & Warren J. Samuels Beatrice Potter Webb: James P. Henderson Helen Laura Sumner Woodbury: Richard A. Lobdell Maxine Bernard Yaple Sweezy Woolston: Spencer J. Pack Barbara Wootton: Indra Hardeen Frieda Wunderlich: Gary Mongiovi Kikue Yamakawa: Aiko Ikeo Anna Pritchett Youngman: Barbara Libby Irini (Rena) Zafiriou: Michalis Psalidopoulos

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Book SynopsisMethodology, Money and the Firm brings together Denis O'Brien's most important essays on issues ranging from methodology to competition policy but is primarily focused on the history of economic thought, an area in which he has made a notable contribution. This two volume set begins with Professor O'Brien's work on methodology and includes essays which take their approaches from the history and philosophy of science as applied to economics, and from the role of theory and data in economics. Industrial problems are addressed in the next section, focusing particularly on competition policy but also covering the question of patents and the neglected contributions of Alfred Marshall in the field of industrial economics. Marshall's achievements are also a theme of the third section which deals with the treatment of the firm by economists. Later sections include discussions of money and trade, the history of English economics from Petty to the end of the classical era, and English and Austrian economics after 1870 with essays on Marshall, Robbins and Hayek. The book also includes a specially written introduction in which Professor O'Brien explains the influences behind his work.Trade Review'This compendium of economic scholarship should be brought to the attention of all economics students - and of all practising economists. It demonstrates wide reading (which is meticulously referenced), thoughtful appraisal and clear argument, and so by both method and content offers a corrective to the deficiencies of our much modern economics. . . . I am confident that economists will benefit from studying any of O'Brien's exemplars of good practice.'Table of ContentsPart 1 Methodology: whither economics?; theories of the history of science - a test case; theory and empirical observation; economists and data. Part 2 The industry: information agreements - a problem in search of a policy, with D. Swann; 200 years of competition; competition policy in Britain - the silent revolution; divestiture - the case of AT&T; patents - an economist's view; Marshall's industrial analysis. Part 3 The firm: the evolution of the theory of the firm; research programmes in competitive structure; Marshall, monopoly and rectangular hyperbolas. Part 4 Money and trade: monetary economics; Overstone, Lord; [Overstone's] monetary thought; the transition in Torrens' monetary thought; the macroeconomics of Thomas Joplin; Torrens, McCulloch and Disraeli; customs unions - trade creation and trade diversion; competition and credit control. Part 5 English economics 1660-1860: Petty's "Political Arithmetick"; Ravenstone, Piercy; classical economics; Ricardian economics and the economics of David Ricardo; classical reassessments; J.R. McCulloch and the theory of value; Torrens on wages and emigration; Torrens, McCulloch and the "Digression on Sismondi" - whose digression, with A.C. Darnell; J.R. McCulloch. Part 6 English and Austrian economics after 1870: A. Marshall, 1842-1925; Marshall's work in relation to classical economics; Lionel Charles Robbins, 1898-1984; Lionel Robbins and the Austrian connection; Hayek as an intellectual historian.

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Book SynopsisEarly French Feminisms, 1830-1940 is a source book of personal and political writings by Flora Tristan, Pauline Roland, Jeanne Deroin, Helene Brion and Madeleine Pelletier, five key individuals in the development of women's rights in France. Though their writings and political activity ranged over more than a century, these women were linked by their commitment to feminism and to socialism and can be considered as seminal figures in French political thought. Their journals, letters and diaries have not been available in print or in English translation and the same is true of many of their published works. As well as extensive extracts from the original source material, Early French Feminisms, 1830-1940 contains biographical and contextual historical material which sets the writers in their period and links them to contemporary feminist and socialist debates. Tristan, Deroin, Roland, Pelletier and Brion were active in the growth of trade union organization, Saint-Simonian utopian socialism, the birth of the parliamentary Socialist Parties, pacifism during the First World War and the neo-Malthusian or birth control movement. Ranging across personal and public genres of writings, the texts reproduced for this volume, placed in historical context, demonstrate the difficulty which these largely self-educated women faced in entering the public sphere and the political persecution which they faced courageously. Early French Feminisms, 1830-1940 clarifies an important chapter in feminist and socialist militancy which will be of interest to students and scholars of women's studies and modern French history.Trade Review'Previously untranslated and often unpublished, these writings - especially Pelletier's fragmentary memoirs, which will certainly spark a controversial reassessment of that often enigmatic and troubled feminist pioneer - will delight serious readers. Along with a very useful bibliography, the well-crafted chapter notes are useful to specialized researchers and new students alike.' -- F. Burkhard, ChoiceTable of ContentsContents: Preface Acknowledgement 1. Introduction 2. Flora Tristan’s Campaigns 1835–1844 3. Jeanne Deroin, Pauline Roland and 1848 4. Jeanne Deroin, Pauline Roland – Prison Deportation and Exile 1851–1852 5. Madeleine Pelletier: Feminism and Politics 6. Madeleine Pelletier: The Politics of Sexuality 7. Hélène Brion: Syndicalist, Pacifist and Feminist 8. Madeleine Pelletier: Autobiographical Writing 9. Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisThe most persistent theme of Nathan Rosenberg's work is a concern with the emergence and diffusion of economic ideas. Bringing together Professor Rosenberg's many contributions to the history of economic thought, this volume offers a series of important insights on how economics itself emerged as a distinct discipline.The Emergence of Economic Ideas extends our understanding of the development of capitalist institutions and the manner in which these institutions have contributed to the unique technological dynamism of capitalist societies. The book also - and necessarily - focuses upon the emergence of ideas about capitalism. That is to say, the discipline of economics is itself a body of ideas, and analytical techniques, that have been developed over the past two centuries in order to explain how capitalist economies have developed and how they work. Professor Rosenberg examines the key contributions - from Mandeville, Adam Smith, Babbage, Marx, Schumpeter and Stigler - in the growth of this critical collection of ideas.Economists interested in the emergence of their discipline and historians of ideas will welcome this collection which will make Professor Rosenberg's many substantial contributions more widely accessible to teachers, students and researchers.Trade Review'These engaging essays are presented, as is normal in this series, in their original format, yielding the benefit of the original pagination and the aesthetic cost of a highly variable typeface.' -- Ian Steedman,The Manchester SchoolTable of ContentsMandeville and laissez-faire; some institutional aspects of the "Wealth of Nations"; Adam Smith and the division of labour - two views or one?; Adam Smith, consumer tastes and economic growth; Adam Smith on profits - paradox lost and regained; another advantage of the division of labour; Adam Smith and the stock of moral capital; Charles Babbage - pioneer economist; Karl Marx on the economic role of science; Marx as a student of technology; Joseph Schumpeter - radical economist; George Stigler - Adam Smith's best friend.

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Book SynopsisThis major new book reassesses the liberal political tradition in the light of recent intellectual and political developments.Featuring work by leading analysts of liberal thought, this volume examines the links between modern liberalism and earlier liberal variants, addresses contemporary challenges to liberalism, and considers prospects for the future. Anthony Arblaster, Norman Barry, Rodney Barker, Richard Bellamy, Michael Freeden, Elizabeth Frazer, Richard Flathan, Andrew Vincent and Hans Vorlander offer both analytical and historical approaches to understanding liberal thought. Engaging with topical questions and controversies, the authors cover issues including the structure of liberal argument, varieties of liberalism, economic liberalism, liberal constitutionalism, liberalism and feminism, liberalism and postmodernism, and the future of liberal political thought.The Liberal Political Tradition will be of great interest to students and researchers concerned with historical ideas, political ideologies and contemporary political philosophy.Trade Review'. . . it is recommended for the nuggets of insight it offers on the individual society and states in the context of freedom and responsibility.' -- Ali Ahmed, USI Journal

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Book SynopsisThis new and expanded edition of a classic work draws our attention to the often neglected role women have played in the development of economics. The work and intellectual history of eight prominent women economists of the eighteenth to twentieth centuries are studied to reveal how they strove to become successful contributors to economic science.These women economists had vastly different lives and philosophies. Jane Marcet, Harriet Martineau and Millicent Fawcett followed the goal of free enterprise and individualism and wrote on the subject when economics was still in its infancy. Rosa Luxemburg, Beatrice Webb and Joan Robinson were all believers in some form of collective government, and Barbara Bergmann and Irma Adelman concern themselves with income distribution, in both developed and developing countries. The authors examine the respective backgrounds and discuss the intellectual histories of these remarkable women to throw light on the development of economics since the time of Adam Smith.This book will be welcomed by students and scholars interested in the contribution women have made to the advancement of economic science.Trade Review'Polkinghorn and Thomson's book leaves one with a clear sense of diversity in the history of female economic thought. . . . a useful introduction to the subject of female contributions to economics and a statement about the importance of this research topic. . .'Table of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction 1. Jane Marcet 2. Harriet Martineau 3. Millicent Fawcett 4. Rosa Luxemburg 5. Beatrice Webb 6. Joan Robinson 7. Irma Adelman 8. Barbara Bergman Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Political Economy of Trade and Growth provides the basis for a major re-evaluation of Sir James Steuart's contribution to modern economics through a rigorous analysis of his most important work.Hong-Seok Yang presents an analytical interpretation of An Inquiry into the Principles of Political Economy, in terms of modern economics. This study of Steuart's classic work reveals that his political economy contains not only original ideas and ground-breaking thinking for his time, but also many major ingredients of modern economics. Arguing that the Inquiry is implicitly logical, Dr Yang analyses both its structure and content, placing Steuart's doctrine in historical, methodological and ideological context. Each chapter addresses a different part of Steuart's political economy. The author seeks to assess the significance of Steuart's thought and to explain why his work has so often been dismissed as 'mercantilism' by later readers.Comprehensive in its scope and thorough in its analysis this book will be welcomed by historians of economic thought and by all those interested in the processes behind the evolution of economic ideas and doctrines.Trade Review'His book not only presents Steuart's economics adequately and clearly, but it also remains close to the spirit of his arguments. From this perspective, historians of economics will find that the book has made a positive contribution. Moreover, I think that this book could be used as a beginning for the reevaluation of Steuart's position in the history of economic thought.’Table of ContentsThe basic conception of an exchange economy; the value of commodities and the distribution of income; the level of output, employment and population; economic growth and foreign trade; national money and interest; international money; public finance; human beings, society and the body politic.

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