Economic Theory & Philosophy

‘Big data’ is now readily available to economic historians, thanks to the digitisation of primary sources, collaborative research linking different...

First published in English 1929, this is a reisssue of the nineteenth edition of Othmar Spann's classic history of economic thought, which is stong...

First published in 1927, Hobson’s treatise on industrial conflict analyses the nature and causes of industrial disputes with the aim of finding an ...

This book puts in place the groundwork for an alternative theory of money in a sociological perspective, proceeding by way of a critique of existin...

In a society where no central agency coordinates the human activity of producing, selling and buying, why is there order and not chaos? This fundam...

Under the impressive editorship of Warren Samuels et al, this book addresses the state of the history of economic thought today. An important contr...

This two volume Handbook contains chapters on the main areas to which Post-Keynesians have made sustained and important contributions. These includ...

Containing important papers by various Georgist scholars, this book highlights the ideas and influence of Henry George as a political economist. ...

The defence of the market and economic freedom have been the main objectives of the investigations by liberal thinkers such as Milton Friedman, Gar...

In recent years, the focus of historians of economic thought has changed to also include the ideas and practices of contemporary economists. This h...

Following the 2008 "global" financial crisis, the viability of globalised financial capitalism was called into question. The resulting fear and unc...

Since the onset of global crisis in recent years, academics and economic theorists from various political and cultural backgrounds have been drawn ...

Modern economics makes much of its claim to be impartial, objective and value-free but it is unable to address our most immediate problems such as ...

The ongoing process of revising and rethinking the foundations of economic theory leads to great complexities and contradictions at the heart of ec...

Value theory, or axiology, looks at what things are good or bad, how good or bad they are, and, most fundamentally, what it is for a thing to be go...

This is a book about one of the most controversial concepts in economics: the invisible hand. The author explores the unintended social consequence...

The ongoing process of revising and rethinking the foundations of economic theory leads to great complexities and contradictions at the heart of ec...

The past few decades have witnessed the emergence of economic imbalances at the world level and within the euro zone. The failure of mainstream eco...

This two volume Handbook contains chapters on the main areas to which Post-Keynesians have made sustained and important contributions. These includ...

The 21st century marks a watershed in the history of the human economic condition. Income and wealth inequalities are now greater than ever before ...

In this thought-provoking book, well known economists Kurz and Salvadori cover original findings and new vistas on old problems. They cover: altern...

The second edition of Behavioral Economics: The Basics summarizes behavioral economics, which uses insights from the social sciences, especially ps...

The book examines how the outgrowth of the financial industry has contributed to the recent tendencies towards inequality and stagnation. It propos...

Nancy Cartwright is one of the most distinguished and influential contemporary philosophers of science. Despite the profound impact of her work, th...

The volume deals with the main problems faced by capitalist economies, inflation and unemployment, in a new and original way, and provides the theo...

In the past twenty-five years the free-market neoliberal model has been hailed as a panacea for economic ills in both the advanced economies and th...

Eric Schliesser's Adam Smith is the product of two decades' reflection by the author on the great Scottish Enlightenment. Unique among treatments o...

Originally published in 1989 this book gives an overview of the empirical work on new technology objectives, together with an analysis of managemen...

Over the past several years, productivity improvement has become an increasingly vital economic issue for economies and individual firms. This book...

Introducing the main theories of distributional justice the book covers utilitarianism and welfare economics, moving on to Rawls's social contract ...

As the world grapples with increased globalization and technological change, Friedrich List’s work appears more relevant than ever before. His theo...

This study, first published in 1979, analysed the international trend towards "industrial democracy" in the industrial relations practices in Europ...

Originally published in 1983, this comparative study of day-to-day industrial relations in two closely matched factories in Britain and Germany, th...

Shmanske and Kahane have brought together nearly all of the important authors in the quickly growing field of Sports Economics to contribute chapte...

In many European countries, the process of financialisation has been exacerbated by the project of closer EU integration and accelerated as a resul...

Prices permeate contemporary life. From the cost of basic foodstuffs in developing countries to the pay of CEOs in rich ones, the question of the p...

This book is a series of vignettes about changes to Australian institutions, organisations and systems that have significantly improved economic an...

In this thought-provoking book, well known economists Kurz and Salvadori cover original findings and new vistas on old problems. They cover: altern...

The phenomenon of entrepreneurship has attracted researchers from a variety of disciplines and a diverse number of analytical approaches. Currently...

The global financial crisis of 2008 was resolved over the course of two years after the collapse of the US housing bubble, but the world economy di...

To properly understand the nature of the digital economy we need to investigate the phenomenon of a "ubiquitous computing system" (UCS). As defined...

Alternative strategies of economic development have received little attention in the literature. Academics rarely compare certain strategic feature...

At a time when both scholars and the public demand explanations and answers to key economic problems that conventional approaches have failed to re...

This book addresses the functioning of financial markets, in particular the financial market model, and modelling. More specifically, the book prov...

This volume celebrates the innovative and rapidly growing area of economic research known as meta-regression analysis (MRA). Shows how MRA enab...