History of Economic Thought

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Monetary Interpretations of the Great Depression

By Frank G. Steindl
Subjects: Economics, Macro Economics, History of Economic Thought

Ancient Maritime Loan Contracts

By Peter Candy
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Roman, Economics, History of Economic Thought
Series: Law and Society in the Ancient World

How contracts reveal the link between commerce and law in maritime societies

A Tale of Two Capitalisms

Sacred Economics in Nineteenth-Century Britain

By Supritha Rajan
Subjects: Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, 19th Century Literature, Economics, History of Economic Thought, History, European History

An interdisciplinary examination of nineteenth-century British capitalism, its architects, and its critics

The Street Porter and the Philosopher

Conversations on Analytical Egalitarianism

By Sandra Peart & David M. Levy
Subjects: Economics, History of Economic Thought, Economic Theory, System -- Development, Philosophy, History, Intellectual History

Leading economists explore the premise that all social interactions are exchanges among inherently equal human beings

The Cult of Statistical Significance

How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives

By Deirdre Nansen McCloskey & Steve Ziliak
Subjects: Economics, History of Economic Thought, Economic Theory, Political Science, Political Methodology, Sociology, History, Intellectual History, Health & Medicine, European History, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, Philosophy
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

How the most important statistical method used in many of the sciences doesn't pass the test for basic common sense

Work and Play

The Production and Consumption of Toys in Germany, 1870-1914

By David Hamlin
Subjects: German Studies, History, German History, Economics, History of Economic Thought
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Explores the history of the German toy industry and the role of toys and play in the evolution of a bourgeois German lifestyle

The "Vanity of the Philosopher"

From Equality to Hierarchy in Post-Classical Economics

By Sandra Peart & David M. Levy
Subjects: Economics, History of Economic Thought

Attempts to explain the shift from egalitarian Classical economic thought to the difference and hierarchy of post-Classical economic thinking

Understanding Economic Recovery in the 1930s

Endogenous Propagation in the Great Depression

By Frank G. Steindl
Subjects: Economics, History of Economic Thought, Macro Economics, History, American History

A must read for specialists interested in Depression-era economics

How the Dismal Science Got Its Name

Classical Economics and the Ur-Text of Racial Politics

By David M. Levy
Subjects: Economics, History of Economic Thought, History, Political Science, Political Economy

A shocking account of how economics became known as the dismal science

From Liberty to Democracy

The Transformation of American Government

By Randall G. Holcombe
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, History of Economic Thought, History, American History, Political Science, Political Economy
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

An analysis of American political history using the economic framework of public choice theory

Social Science and Policy-Making

A Search for Relevance in the Twentieth Century

Edited by David Lee Featherman & Maris Arvids Vinovskis
Subjects: Political Science, Sociology, Economics, History of Economic Thought

How the social sciences in America were developed as a means of social reform

Harmony and the Balance

An Intellectual History of Seventeenth-Century English Economic Thought

By Andrea Lynne Finkelstein
Subjects: Economics, History of Economic Thought, History

Places the work of major economic writers of seventeenth-century England within the broader context of the intellectual revolutions of the period

The Pillars of Economic Understanding

Factors and Markets

By Mark Perlman & Charles R. McCann
Subjects: Economics, History of Economic Thought, Labor, Health, and Educational Economics

An authoritative and originally structured view of the history of economics

Government and Local Power in Japan, 500-1700

A Study Based on Bizen Province

By John Hall
Subjects: Economics, History of Economic Thought, Political Science, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies

An influential interpretation of premodern Japanese political and institutional history.

Comparative Law and Economics

By Ugo Mattei
Subjects: Economics, History of Economic Thought, Political Science, Comparative Politics, Economic Theory

The book links the study of comparative law with the study of law and economics

Art and the Market

Roger Fry on Commerce in Art, Selected Writings, Edited with an Interpretation

By Craufurd D. Goodwin
Subjects: Economics, History of Economic Thought, Art, Architecture

A major Bloomsbury figure writes about the art market, and an economist interprets his ideas

The Pillars of Economic Understanding

Ideas and Traditions

By Mark Perlman & Charles R. McCann
Subjects: Economics, History of Economic Thought, Economic Theory, Philosophy

Major new history of economics that focuses on philosophical foundations of the discipline

Explaining Social Institutions

Edited by Jack Knight & Itai Sened
Subjects: Political Science, Political Methodology, American Politics, Sociology, Economics, History of Economic Thought

Important scholars offer new perspectives on the formation and growth of social institutions

Institutions and Social Order

Edited by Karol Soltan, Virginia Haufler, and Eric M. Uslaner
Subjects: Political Science, Political Economy, Political Methodology, Economics, History of Economic Thought

Explores the relationship between institutions and the maintenance of social order

Dynamics, Economic Growth, and International Trade

Edited by Bjarne Sloth Jensen & Kar-yiu Wong
Subjects: Economics, History of Economic Thought, System -- Development
Series: Studies in International Economics

Combines two areas in economics: the theory of economic growth and the theory of international trade

Farm Policy and Trade Conflict

The Uruguay Round and CAP Reform

By Alan Swinbank & Carolyn Tanner
Subjects: Economics, History of Economic Thought

Provides a context for understanding the agricultural aspects of the GATT, the CAP, and EC-U.S. relations

The Character of Economic Thought, Economic Characters, and Economic Institutions

Selected Essays by Mark Perlman

By Mark Perlman
Subjects: Economics, History of Economic Thought, Labor, Health, and Educational Economics

A leading economist and pioneering editor presents his writings in and on the discipline

Tyranny of the Market

A Critique of Theoretical Foundations

By Douglas Vickers
Subjects: Economics, Micro Economics, History of Economic Thought, Macro Economics

A profound reconsideration of economists' ideas of the market

Economics and the Antagonism of Time

Time, Uncertainty, and Choice in Economic Theory

By Douglas Vickers
Subjects: Economics, History of Economic Thought

A careful reconsideration of time in economics leads to a new paradigm of choice

The Economic Development of Japan

Growth and Structural Change, 1868-1938

By William Lockwood
Subjects: Economics, History of Economic Thought, Sociology, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies

A substantial contribution to the study of Japan's extraordinary economic expansion since the Meiji Restoration

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