This book investigates the tensions between subjectivism and objectivism in the history of economics. The book looks at the works of Adam Smith, Carl Menger, Leon Walras, William Stanley Jevons, Oskar Morgenstern, Ludwig Mises, Piero Sraffa, and so on. The book highlights the diverse subjective...

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- Part I Before the two world wars -- 1 The food weapon: milestones in the history of a concept (17th-19th centuries) -- 2 Why the wars? And how to pay for them? A comparison between Hume...