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