Examines the sources and implications of Mikhail Gorbachev′s policies insofar as they have been policies of liberalization. It is principally argued that Marxism has been a Western phenomenon and thereby a vehicle for the export of Western Enlightenment values to Third World countries but also...

A From the ancients to the moderns, questions of economic theory and policy have been an important part of intellectual and public debate, engaging the attention of some of history's greatest minds. This book brings together readings from more than two thousand years of writings on economic...

Includes refereed articles on topics in economic methodology and the history of economics, including Austrian economic methodology and Wesley Mitchell. This collection covers such topics as Adam Smith, John Kenneth Galbraith, Friedrich Nietzsche, Joseph S

Assembling contributions from top thinkers in the field, this companion offers a comprehensive and sophisticated exploration of the history of economic thought. The volume has a threefold focus: the history of economic thought, the history of economics as a discipline, and the historiography of...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION -- PREFACE -- OHAPTEE I: PRINCIPLES OF INDUSTRIAL LEGISLATION -- CHAPTER II: DIRECT INTERFERENCE OF THE STATE WITH LABOUR -- CHAPTER III: THE FACTORY ACTS AND SIMILAR LEGISLATION DIRECTLY...

In this book an exceptionally prestigious and international group of scholars mark the centenary of the publication of Veblen's The Theory of the Leisure Class and Commons' A Sociological View of Sovereignty