Introduction -- Unintended consequences -- The origin of money -- Segregation -- The invisible hand -- The origin of money reconsidered -- Models and representation -- Game theory and conventions -- Conclusion

This book explores the life and work of Austrian-British economist, political economist, and social philosopher, Friedrich Hayek. Set within a context of the recent financial crisis, alongside the renewed interest in Hayek and the Hayek-Keynes debate, the book introduces the main themes of...

Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) was a leading figure in the British classical school of economics, best-known for extending the insights of Adam Smith at a time of revolutionary improvements in agriculture and industry. This book explores the way in which he accounted for the tendency to...

This book presents the complete and pioneering works of the great Spanish economist, Germán Bernácer (1883-1965), to an English audience for the first time. Bernácer, the first director of the Research Service of the Bank of Spain (1930-55), inspired Keynes’ theory but was also a major...

The 1930s, characterised by repercussions from World War I and the Great Depression, was an era of populism, nationalism, protectionism, government intervention and attempts to create planned economies. The perceived need for economic planning emerged in Sweden in part due to the increasing...

1. Introduction- Richard G. Anderson -- Part I: Samuelson’s Contribution to Economics: Methodology and Mathematics -- 2. Paul Samuelson’s Ideology and Scientific Economics- J. Daniel Hammond -- 3. Re-Examining Samuelson’s Operationalist Methodology- D. Wade Hands -- 4. The Young Paul...

1. The Protestant Father as Economist- Craig Freedman -- Part I: A Biographical Perspective -- 2. The Curmudgeon as Teacher: Afternoon Coffee with Mark Blaug- Craig Freedman -- 3. Fathers and Sons: A Conversation with Stephen Stigler- Craig Freedman -- 4. The Way Things Work: The Empirical Bent...

1. Introduction: Critically Returning to Rudolf Hilferding -- 2. Rethinking Hilferding’s Finance Capital -- 3. From Luxemburg to Sweezy. Notes on the Intellectual Influence of Hilferding’s Finance Capital -- 4. Contradictions in Hilferding’s Finance Capital: Money, Banking and Crisis...