Blending past and present, this brief history of economics is the perfect book for introducing students to the field. A Brief History of Economics illustrates how the ideas of the great economists not only influenced societies but were themselves shaped by their cultural milieu. Understanding...

The paper discusses the analyses of technical progress, capital accumulation and income distribution elaborated by three major classical economists: Adam Smith, David Ricardo and Karl Marx. The interpretation given is partly inspired by Piero Sraffa's studies in his hitherto unpublished papers....

The purpose of the paper is to bring out the special characters of Paolo Sylos Labini experience concerning his work on the history of the discipline. It includes three successive parts. The first investigates the extent to which Sylos Labini can be considered as a Schumpeterian scholar. The...

Рассматривается ранний этап развития российской экономической мысли: становление предмета и метода науки, специфика этого процесса в связи со спецификой...

The paper argues that economics is not a perfect selection mechanism that preserves each and every economic idea that is valid and useful and jettisons all ideas that are not. The teleological view of the subject cannot be sustained. Therefore the task of the history of economic thought cannot...

During the last decades, international trade flows of the industrialised countries became more and more intra-industry. At the same time, employment perspectives particularly of the low skilled by tendency deteriorated in these countries. This phenomenon is often traced back to the fact that...

The tradition that views Dupuit only as a brilliant engineer-economist who trained at the Ecole nationale des Ponts et Chaussees remained strong in the fifty years that followed World War II. Within this tradition, research on Dupuit mostly was focused on his publications on surplus theory, road...