The publication of Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America has kindled interest across disciplines to appraise the exceptional nature of U.S. activities. In general, however, all the published works have not focused their analyses from an economic point of view. While economics was for...

1. Introduction to Management History: debates and methodology -- 2. Work, Organization and Commerce in the Pre-Modern World -- 3. The Foundations of Modern Management -- 4. The Classic Age of Management Thought (mid-19th century until 1939) -- 5. Management in the Age of Prosperity (1940s –...

Chapter 1: Introduction; Thomas Hoerber, Alain Anquetil -- Chapter 2: The Social Liberalism of John Stuart Mill; Alain Anquetil -- Chapter 3: Karl Marx’s Communism and Critique of Capital; Paul Prew -- Chapter 4: Edmund Burke’s Liberalism; Thomas Hoerber -- Chapter 5: The free Liberalism of...

In light of weak economic performances and rising income disparities across the developed world during the past decades, this book provides a comprehensive overview of secular stagnation theories in the history of economic thought and examines the role of income distribution in various...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part 1. New Perspective for the History of Economic Thought -- Chapter 2. The methodological role of the history of economic thought -- Chapter 3. A bibliometric portrait of contemporary history of economic thought -- Chapter 4. Moving boundaries with gender budgeting:...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Whatever happened to the Third World -- Chapter 3: What preceded development economics -- Chapter 4: The first generation of development economists -- Chapter 5: The second generation of development economists -- Chapter 6: Main components of the third...