"This book provides the non-Italian scholar with an extensive picture of the development of Italian economics, from the … generally valid conclusions. In this sense, "pure economics" was never performed in Italy. Even Pareto used economics (and … prompted the economists to prefer less dangerous subjects, such as the relationship between economics, morals, and law (the …

Modern economics has, at its foundation, scholarly contributions from many prominent Scottish thinkers. This revealing … contribution over three centuries in the light of a distinctive Scottish approach to economics. Scottish Enlightenment is an …

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Setting the scene -- The professionalization of Australasian economics -- The … practical utopia of economics -- Ordeal by fire : Australasian economists and the great depression -- How Keynes came to … Australasia -- War, reconstruction and economic theory -- A coming of age for Australasian economics -- The flowering of …