1: Karl Marx on Capitalism -- 2: Hyman Minsky on Financial Crises -- 3: John Maynard Keynes on Debt and Demand -- 4: Frank Knight on Risk and Uncertainty -- 5: Barbara Bergmann on Gender Biases.-6: Thorstein veblen on Inequality -- 7: Amartya Sen on Financial Capabilities -- 8: Gunnar Myrdal on...

How should we address today’s big problems, and what we can take from icons of economics past? How would John Maynard Keynes have resolved today's debt problem, or how would Adam Smith have assessed the European carbon emission trading market? This book applies the ideas of ten renowned...

The salient feature of the theoretical discussion of development problems is still the rivalry between two approaches. An outline and critique of the dependencia school and the modernization theory is provided in the following article which also points out possibilities of combining both these...