Uses archival evidence to provide unique insights into US economics, focusing on the origins of the IMF, building a multilateral strategy for the US, the Great Inflation of the 1970s, and on Marriner S. Eccles, Lauchlin Currie, Allyn Young, John H. Williams and Arthur I. Bloomfield.

This succinct overview of Marshall's life and work as an economist sets his major economic contributions in perspective, by looking at his education, his travel, his teaching at Cambridge, Oxford and Bristol, his policy views as presented to government inquiries and his political and social opinions

Überblick über die Betriebswirtschaftslehre in der Weimarer Republik -- Betriebswirtschaftslehre während des Dritten Reiches -- Verfolgte Hochschullehrer der Betriebswirtschaftslehre -- Betriebswirtschaftslehre in der Nachkriegszeit -- Resümee.

Die Beitragsautoren dieses Sammelbandes erforschen, diskutieren und validieren den Einsatz zukunftsorientierter Produktionsmethoden zur Gestaltung nachhaltiger Wertschöpfungsnetzwerke. Vor dem Hintergrund zunehmender globaler Umweltrisiken und sozialer Disparitäten ist die Konzeption...

This three volume series of intellectual biography considers the life, work and impact on economic, social and political theory of the Italian economist, sociologist and political scientist Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923). This volume covers the period starting from his childhood up to his early...

This latest volume in the Collaborative Biography of Hayek examines the interconnectedness between Hayek’s (1944) The Road to Serfdom and George Orwell’s Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949); his relationship with Karl Popper and Karl Polanyi; and the work of Wilhelm von...

Hayek claimed that he always made it his rule ‘not to be concerned with current politics, but to try to operate on public opinion.’ However, evidence suggests that he was a party political operative with ‘free’ market scholarship being the vehicle through which he sought - and achieved -...

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...