"An entertaining and accessible introduction to great economic thinkers throughout history, now in its fourth edition, with updates and commentary on the 2020 "great cessation," Trump and Obama economic policies, the dominance of Amazon, and many other timely topics."

Die Beiträge zum vorliegenden Band befassen sich mit der Entwicklung des Nachdenkens über den Raum als Dimension wirtschaftlichen Handelns. Ihr Zeithorizont reicht von der Stadtentwicklungstheorie Giovanni Boteros im 16. Jahrhundert bis zur »Neuen Ökonomischen Geographie« alias...

The book investigates the many ways that economic and moral reasoning interact, overlap and conflict both historically and at present. The book explores economic and moral thinking as a historically contingent pair using the concept of economic normativities. The contributors use case studies...

Main description: Historians have traditionally turned to free trade and laissez faire to explain the development of political economy during the Enlightenment. Reinert argues that economic emulation was the prism through which philosophers, ministers, reformers, and merchants thought about...