Economists seem to be everywhere in the media these days. But what exactly do today's economists do? What and how are they taught? Updating David Colander and Arjo Klamer's classic The Making of an Economist, this book shows what is happening in elite U.S. economics Ph.D. programs. By examining...

Wie funktioniert die Wirtschaft als Ganzes? Die Antwort auf diese Frage bewegt Betriebe, deren Mitarbeiter und damit letzten Endes auch jeden privaten Haushalt. All diese Akteure einer Volkswirtschaft sind abhängig von gesamtwirtschaftlichen und in zunehmendem Maße auch von...

In this paper, I reflect on ‘the neoinstitutionalist turn’ in the social sciences and its significance for the Polanyian tradition in economic anthropology. Recent trends in economic thought see the debates about the place of economic theory that engaged Karl Polanyi as obsolete, made...

This book introduces the research agenda of relational economics as a political economy for the governance of local and global economic transactions in modern societies. It analyses the mechanisms of global value creation and production networks by studying cooperation in intra- and inter-firm...

This book discusses Samuel Pufendorf and his contributions to the development of the European Enlightenment and the emergence of economics as a social science. Born in 1632 in Saxony, Pufendorf wrote widely on natural law, ethics, jurisprudence, and political economy and was one of the most...

1. The historical evolution of the theory of the entrepreneur; Mariano Castro Valdivia. University of Jaen -- 2. How to do business in Castile: trade and financial companies (15th-16th centuries); David Carvajal. University of Valladolid -- 3. Simón Ruiz: a great entrepreneur in 16th-century...

This book brings together for the first time more than half a dozen proposals, including several which have never been studied before, to show how thinkers on empire drew on monetary thought and banking theory to address the financial, political and constitutional challenges of empire in the...

1. The economic way of thinking -- 2. The economics of consumption -- 3. The economics of production and growth -- 4. Cost theorizing and supply curves -- 5. Competition and its enemies -- 6. Taxation, regulation and factor markets -- 7. Money and banking -- 8. International trade -- 9. Exchange...