The Routledge Handbook of the History of Global Economic Thought offers the first comprehensive overview of the long-run history of economic thought from a truly international perspective. Although globalization has facilitated the spread of ideas between nations, the history of economics has...

1. Introduction -- 2. Eucken’s Competition with Keynes: Beyond the Ordoliberal Allergy to the Keynesian Medicine -- 3. Third-Way Perspectives on Order in Interwar France: Personalism and the Political Economy of François Perroux -- 4. Corporatism and Planning in Monnet’s Idea of Europe --...

Standard histories of European integration emphasize the immediate aftermath of World War II as the moment when the seeds of the European Union were first sown. However, the interwar years witnessed a flurry of concern with the reconstruction of the world order, generating arguments that cut...

Drawing on the writings of Joseph Schumpeter, we develop and explore a new theory of international conflict. We outline a simple mechanism whereby industrialization fosters peace, suggesting that industrialized states are more peaceful because they can gain more by investing at home than by...