Economic Theory & Philosophy

Originally published in 1979, this reader presents an industrialist view of the labour market and economics as they stood at the time in the United...

This book examines the role of normative economics in the writings of Karl Marx, Ludwig von Mises, Milton Friedman and Karl Popper.The book shows t...

The book discusses various cases of financialisation and financial crisis in South-Eastern Europe. While these can be directly traced to the region...

This book offers a rigorous, detailed, and balanced analysis of the various contributions to the Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) debate, incorporating...

Since the Global Financial Crisis, economics has been under greater public scrutiny, revealing a crisis in the discipline. This represented a poten...

The new institutional economics offers one of the most exciting research agendas in economics today. Yet can it really explain processes of economi...

The new institutional economics offers one of the most exciting research agendas in economics today. Yet can it really explain processes of economi...

Twenty-first-century economists will have to understand and improve a post-Cold War world in which no single economic theory or system holds the ke...

Capitalism has long been idealized as a symbol of success, power, and free enterprise. In reality, while capitalism has brought wealth and success ...

The "Vanity of the Philosopher" continues the themes introduced in Levy's acclaimed book How the Dismal Science Got Its Name.Here, Peart and Levy t...

Originally published in 1967, this book examines the major problems of trade and aid policy posed for the developed countries by the UN Conference ...

The Price of the Common Good offers a fresh perspective on economic prosperity and solidarity that emphasizes communal interests. There is more at ...

Presents the author's alternative monetary theory and macroeconomics to both the quality theory and Keynes's work. This text reveals Means's view o...

As former Director of Research and a founding member of the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund, Jacques J. Polak has advised theore...

An updated edition of David Boaz’s timeless primer on libertarianism, with a new preface by the author. Libertarianism—the philosophy of personal a...

This book provides the non-Italian scholar with an extensive picture of the development of Italian economics, from the Sixteenth century to the pre...

One of the most original and prolific economists of the twentieth century, Joan Robinson (1903–83) is widely regarded as the most important woman i...

Karl Marx hypothesized that there is a long-term tendency for the profit rate to fall in capitalist economies. Immanuel Wallerstein hypothesized th...

Stationarity has always played an important part in forecasting theory. However, some economic time series show time-varying autocovariances. The q...

At a time of rising global economic precarity and social inequality, the field of economic anthropology offers solutions through the study of loc...

After the ‘financial crisis’ and ‘Great Recession’, some have called for replacing standard economic theory by heterodox models based upon behaviou...

First published in 1994, the essays collected in this book explore the impact and current status of the ideas put forth in David Silverman’s The Th...

Beveridge defined full employment as a state where there are slightly more vacant jobs than there are available workers, or not more than 3% of the...

The essays of this book are contributions to the empirical Literature in International Trade and Public Economics. They deal with the relationship ...

Presents the author's alternative monetary theory and macroeconomics to both the quality theory and Keynes's work. This text reveals Means's view o...

Most people believe capitalism is a compromise with selfish human nature. As Adam Smith put it, "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the...

The world is dealing with a historical turning point. The old ways of doing things do not seem to suffice anymore. Solutions aiming at permanent an...

Traditionally viewed as an abstraction, the quantitative nature of money is essential in evaluating the relationship between monetary systems and...

One of the most original and prolific economists of the twentieth century, Joan Robinson (1903–83) is widely regarded as the most important woman i...

The essays in this edited collection, first published in 1986, focus on important debates surrounding the central Marxian problem of the transforma...

Adam Smith's name has become synonymous with free market economics; The Wealth of Nations is taken as the definitive account of the benefits of fre...

Frank Machovec argues that the assumption of perfect information has done untold economic damage. It has provided the rationale for active state in...

Unequivocal Justice challenges the prevailing view within political philosophy that broadly free market regimes are inconsistent with the basic pri...