This major original reference work includes over one hundred specially commissioned articles on the lives and writings of women who made significant contributions to economics. It sheds new light on the rich, but too often neglected, heritage of women’s analysis of economic issues and...

Louis Bachelier's 1900 dissertation on the theory of speculation has been recognized since its 1964 translation into English as a landmark in the emergence of the modern analysis of mathematical finance, efficient markets, and stochastic processes. His writings on the theory of speculation over...

<title>Abstract</title> Guy Routh was an outstandingly incisive and severe critic of mainstream economic theory's abstraction, class bias, and empirical irrelevance. Routh's <italic>The Origin of Economic Ideas</italic> (1975 1989), with such chapter titles as “The Preposterous Origins” and “From Propaganda to Dogma”,...

<title>Abstract</title> David Hume's classic statement of the quantity theory of money and the specie-flow mechanism of international adjustment in 1752 and Irving Fisher's authoritative restatement of the quantity theory in 1911 shared a concern with simultaneously upholding both the long-run neutrality and...

This paper contrasts Irving Fisher’s monetary analysis of Xuctuations in output and employment with the competing cyclical approach to analysing such Xuctuations, with particular attention to a series of articles in the 1920s in which Fisher challenged the widely prevailing notion that truly...