"This innovative book focuses on the current global financial crisis and the inadequacies of the economic theories being used to guide policy. In so doing, it tackles the economic theories that have been used firstly to understand its causes and thereafter to contain the damage it has brought."...

The Global Financial Crisis is a unique investigation into the causes of the most savage economic downturn experienced since the Great Depression. Employing wide and divergent perspectives--which are themselves critically examined--this study analyses the measures that have been taken to restore...

Addressing the needs of anyone who wishes to understand how an economy works, this text examines various issues including entrepreneurs, value added, the nature of the market, radical uncertainty, Say's Law and the causes of the business cycle

Richard Kahn aside, from which other economist did Keynes derive even a single idea found in the General Theory? As a reading of almost the entire literature on the transition from the Treatise on Money will show, there is no economist to whom Keynes gave the slightest credit as an influence on...

This provocative book examines the standing of Say’s Law two centuries after its initial statement in 1803.

This highly original contribution examines one of the most controversial concepts in the history of economics – the true meaning of the Law of Markets. This has been a contentious issue since the publication of Keynes’s General Theory, but has also divided economists since it first emerged...

In this thoroughly updated second edition of Free Market Economics, Steven Kates assesses economic principles based on classical economic theory before Keynesian theory became dominant in macroeconomics and equilibrium analysis became standard in microeconomics. He looks at economics from the...