"New economic thinking is in demand in the light of the recent crisis. But it is constrained by the prevailing way of thinking about the economy and about economics. This book equips the reader with a better understanding of this way of thinking and increases awareness of other possibilities....

Modern economics has, at its foundation, scholarly contributions from many prominent Scottish thinkers. This revealing work examines the roots of this great tradition, places in perspective a selection of authors, and assesses their contribution over three centuries in the light of a distinctive...

Formal modelling vs / Daniele Besomi -- Ghazanfar's Medieval Islamic economic thought / Salim Rashid -- New light on Malthus : the Kanto Gakuen collection / A.M.C. Waterman -- Postmodernism, H.A. Innis, and the media of communication / Robin Neill -- Was Shakespeare an economic thinker? /...

Book I : Its relationship to Adam Smith's full moral philosophical vision : an inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations / Jerry Evensky -- In whose image? Sergius Bulgakov's account of the history of economics / Yuri G. Tulupenko -- Interwar monetary and business cycle theory...

Wesley Clair Mitchell on eugenics : a note / Luca Fiorito, Tiziana Foresti -- The final triumph of Adam Smith? / Udayan Roy -- Backhaus and Drechsler's Friedrich Nietzsche : Did Nietzsche say anything to economists or about economics? / John Linarelli -- Le Gall's A history of econometrics in...

Method choice in the history of econometrics : a decision criteria taxonomy and analysis of the report of econometricians' decision making across source materials / Kirsten K. Madden -- The ship of state in stormy waters / Y.S. Brenner -- A pied piper theory of the rise and fall of states /...

The collection includes both refereed articles and review essays. The articles highlight research on the role of western economic advisors in China before the Communist Revolution (Paul Trescott), John Ryan on minimum wage legislation, a symposium on Clement Juglar, and a comparison of recent...

The collection includes both refereed articles and review essays of recently published books in the history of economic thought and methodology. The articles highlight the work of founding editor Warren J. Samuels, American economists role in the creation of federal trade acts, and Islamic...