Economic Theory & Philosophy

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...