Economic Theory & Philosophy

First published in 1938 this Routledge Revival is a reissue of the autobiography of influential economist J. A. Hobson. A comprehensive work, it de...

This study offers a new perspective of Walras' pure, applied and social economics. Through archival research at the University of Lausanne, Jolink ...

This volume examines different aspects of the Japanese experience in a comparative context. There is much here of relevance to contemporary develop...

In A History of Canadian Economic Thought, Robin Neill relates the evolution of economic theory in Canada to the particular geographical and politi...

An important tenet of game theory, core theory has nonetheless been all but ignored by the mainstream. Its basic premise is that individuals band t...

This book presents essays by an outstanding team of international specialists and covers a wide range of topics, including (inter alia) the relatio...

This monograph examines the domain of classical political economy using the methodologies developed in recent years both by the new discipline of e...

The remarkable speed at which microcredit has expanded around the world in the last three decades has piqued the curiosity of practitioners and the...

Entrepreneurship is the engine of economic progress, but mainstream economic models of economic growth tend to leave out the entrepreneurial elemen...

This highly original work offers an intellectual history of four central theories underlying the market economic system, focusing on their concepti...

Previously published as special issues of The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought and The Review of Political Economy, this volume ...

Recent years have seen a dramatic re-emergence of interest in ontology. From philosophy and social sciences to artificial intelligence and computer...

Cognitive Developments in Economics proposes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of human problem solving, choice, decision-making and chang...

Througout his life Hayek had a profound interest in money and its role within the economy. Money plays a critical part in his 1920s work on the tra...

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

Economists working on behavioral economics have been awarded the Nobel Prize four times in recent years. This book explores this innovative area an...

Achille Nicolas Isnard (1749-1803) an engineer with a keen interest in political economy, is best known for demonstrating the concept of market equ...

This book is written with an acute awareness of the need for new insight to ensure (1) universal protection in basic healthcare; (2) providing choi...

Galbraith's arguments are discussed by a group of economists in regards to current controversies and problems. Topics covered range from globalizat...

This book collects in one readily-accessible volume the pioneering research of Carmel U. Chiswick on the Economics of American Judaism. Filling a m...

This book, the third in the series of Samuel Hollander's essays, covers twelve key studies on the economic theory and method of John Stuart Mill. T...

In an increasingly technologically-led century the striking pattern emerging in firms’ innovative activities is their competition for a technologic...

When Adam Smith pioneered modern economics in the eighteenth century, it was a branch of philosophy. By the close of the nineteenth century, econom...

General Equilibrium Theory, which became the dominating paradigm after the Second World War, is founded on the postulated existence, uniqueness, an...

Adam Smith is well recognized as a forefather of modem economics but in recent years scholars have been exploring anew the multidisciplinary nature...

Economists have long laboured under the misapprehension that all humans exist as rational beings that find happiness in maximizing their personal u...

This groundbreaking collection surveys current research on Marx and Marxism from a variety of perspectives. Setting forward an unconventional range...

Economics is often defined as the science of choice or human action. But choice and action are essentially mental phenomena, an aspect rarely menti...

The four sections of the book deal in succession with Marshall’s key ideas on the subject, the wider context of his thought in which they are to be...

The past decade has seen many leading economies, especially the US, undergo profound structural transformations. Departing from the standard theori...

Rick Kuhn’s Henryk Grossman and the Recovery of Marxism is the definitive study of the life and work of this renowned economist, activist, and inte...

The core teachings and practices of Buddhism are systematically directed toward developing keen and caring insight into the relational or interdepe...

Peter Groenewegen's reputation as a chronicler of the history of economics is unparalleled. Building on his respected collection on eighteenth cent...

A classic work in political philosophy, intellectual history and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians and scholar...

The new institutional economics has been one of the most influential schools of thought to emerge in the past quarter century. Taking its roots in ...

In contemporary non-mainstream economic debate, it is widely thought that the functioning of a market economy needs a set of rules (i.e. institutio...

Originally published over two decades ago, this classic text within the philosophy of economics is a tour de force against revealed preference. It ...

How do we ensure that waste and inefficiency do not undermine the mission of publicly funded schools? Derek Neal writes that economists must analyz...

The economic crisis of 2008 led to an unprecedented focus on the world of high finance and revealed it to be far more arcane and influential than m...

Mainstream economics offers a perspective on the gift which is constructed around exchange, axioms of self-interest, instrumental rationality and u...

How does culture shape history, and history shape culture? This book answers this question by bringing readers on a fascinating journey through the...

This collection brings together leading economists from around the world to explore key issues in economic analysis and the history of economic tho...

In order to understand the resilience of capitalism as a mode of production, social organization, and an intellectual system, it is necessary to ex...

Shelley called poets, ‘the unacknowledged legislators of the world’. Here John Ramsden describes their now largely forgotten contribution to econom...

The form of ‘reflexivity’ – defined by the dictionary as that which is ‘directed back upon itself’ – that is most relevant to economic methodology ...

Groups are often said to bear responsibility for their actions, many of which have enormous moral, legal, and social significance. When children we...

Sociological Theory and the Capability Approach connects normative strands of sociological theory to the fusion of ethics and economics proposed by...