Economic Theory & Philosophy

This book, first published in 1987, is a landmark contribution to macrosociology that extends the tradition of Sorokin, Durkheim, Marx, Weber and o...

Samuel Pufendorf’s work on natural law and political economy was extensive and has been cited by several important figures in the history of econom...

May you sell your spare kidney? May gay men pay surrogates to bear them children? Should we allow betting markets on terrorist attacks and natural ...

Economic Lessons from the Transition focuses on major transitions in the 1990s: the transition from central planning and communism to market capita...

This is the 19th volume in a series of research in economic anthropology. It covers: studies of Otavalo, Ecuador; commoditization; women as consume...

Consumer capitalism arose with the second industrial revolution, the application of continuous-mass production to consumer goods during the late ni...

The Economics of Scientific Misconduct explores episodes of misconduct in the natural and biomedical sciences and replication failure in economics ...

A wave of optimism is sweeping through the international aid and development industry, championed by leaders such as Jeffrey Sachs and Jim Yong Kim...

Adam Smith (1723-90) is a thinker with a distinctive perspective on human behaviour and social institutions. He is best known as the author of the ...

A book which covers the key period in the history of actuarial science from the mid-17th century to the early 19th century. There are reprints of t...

Since 2008, profound questions have been asked about the driving forces and self-regulating potential of the economic system, political control and...

Although free enterprise and free economies now proliferate around the globe, the idea of business as a holy vocation is one that has received litt...

Is economics always self-corrective? Do erroneous theorems permanently disappear from the market of economic ideas? Intellectual Path Dependence in...

These essays on Post-Keynesian economics were written expressly for a volume to honour the life and work of Alfred Eichner. The original countribut...

Demonstrating that there are (superior) alternatives to the modern macroeconomic mainstream and its DSGE (dynamic stochastic general equilibrium) m...

This book investigates from the perspective of the major economic dictionaries the notions of economic crisis and cycles. It gives an extensive sum...

In the early 1800s, Robert Owen was a mill owner, political figure, and an advocate for social reform, and his publications attained considerable c...

This study, first published in 1979, examines and contrasts two concepts of credit rationing. The first concept takes the relevant price of credit ...

This book is a coherent and unique collection of chapters exploring the reception and diffusion of David Ricardo’s writings in different languages....

This volume, originally published in 1958, contains a selection of the most important and interesting articles by Knut Wicksell, which had hitherto...

A century ago, John Maynard Keynes entered the Treasury to serve his country during the First World War, but as is well known, appalled by the term...

This book intends to renovate the view of social sciences in the German-speaking world. It explores the intellectual tension in the social science ...

This collection brings together significant new contributions to the Sraffa--based theories of production and distribution, from post-Keynesian arg...