This book explores the origins and development of the labour theory of value, examining its emergence from the natural law philosopher of the sixteenth and seventeenth century to its domination of the classical school of economics

In economics, the voluntary sector is surprisingly understudied. In order to fully understand economics, unpaid and voluntary work needs to be taken into account and afforded the same status as paid activities. This book constitutes a rigorous economic analysis with special emphasis on gender...

In economics, the voluntary sector is surprisingly understudied. In order to fully understand economics, unpaid and voluntary work needs to be taken into account and afforded the same status as paid activities. This book constitutes a rigorous economic analysis with special emphasis on gender...

In this paper human subsistence is used as focal perspective. Working on Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Mandeville’s Fable we speculate on the role of passions in shaping the structural dynamics of the economic system. Subsistence is here seen as a historical process of ‘making’ an...