This book discusses the work of German economists Gustav von Schmoller and Adolph Wagner, its influence on the tradition of German and Austrian economic and social thought, and its implications for the discipline today. Schmoller and Wagner integrated philosophical, historical, sociological and...

pt. 1. From Schumpeter's universal social sciences to neo-Schumpeterian thinking -- pt. 2. Neo-Schumpeterian meso dynamics : theory -- pt. 3. Neo-Schumpeterian meso dynamics : empirics -- pt. 4. Neo-Schumpeterian macro dynamics : growth and development -- pt. 5. Neo-Schumpeterian economics and...

This book discusses Samuel Pufendorf and his contributions to the development of the European Enlightenment and the emergence of economics as a social science. Born in 1632 in Saxony, Pufendorf wrote widely on natural law, ethics, jurisprudence, and political economy and was one of the most...

This book contains refereed articles on: contrasting relational conceptions of the individual in recent economics; the development of Adam Smith's style of lecturing; a comparison of problems encountered in the historian's work as editor, based upon editing Harrod's papers and Haberler's...

Formal modelling vs / Daniele Besomi -- Ghazanfar's Medieval Islamic economic thought / Salim Rashid -- New light on Malthus : the Kanto Gakuen collection / A.M.C. Waterman -- Postmodernism, H.A. Innis, and the media of communication / Robin Neill -- Was Shakespeare an economic thinker? /...

Book I : Its relationship to Adam Smith's full moral philosophical vision : an inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations / Jerry Evensky -- In whose image? Sergius Bulgakov's account of the history of economics / Yuri G. Tulupenko -- Interwar monetary and business cycle theory...

Wesley Clair Mitchell on eugenics : a note / Luca Fiorito, Tiziana Foresti -- The final triumph of Adam Smith? / Udayan Roy -- Backhaus and Drechsler's Friedrich Nietzsche : Did Nietzsche say anything to economists or about economics? / John Linarelli -- Le Gall's A history of econometrics in...

Method choice in the history of econometrics : a decision criteria taxonomy and analysis of the report of econometricians' decision making across source materials / Kirsten K. Madden -- The ship of state in stormy waters / Y.S. Brenner -- A pied piper theory of the rise and fall of states /...

The collection includes both refereed articles and review essays. The articles highlight research on the role of western economic advisors in China before the Communist Revolution (Paul Trescott), John Ryan on minimum wage legislation, a symposium on Clement Juglar, and a comparison of recent...