John Maynard Keynes is unquestionably the major figure in 20th century economics and perhaps the only one who can stand next to Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Alfred Marshall and Leon Walras in the economists’ Hall of Fame. This title comprises the most important articles and papers published on...

The Foundations of Monetary Economics presents an authoritative collection of key articles on monetary economics – one of the most contentious areas of economics. David Laidler – who has himself made important contributions – has selected those articles which are essential to an...

Denis O’Brien has made an outstanding contribution to economics, and the history of economic thought in particular. This selection of original essays, by a distinguished group of contributors, pays tribute to his work in the areas of the history of economic analysis and methodology.

Ricardo’s intellectual appeal, both amongst his contemporaries and more recently, rested on his remarkable gift for heroic abstractions: he seized hold of a wide range of significant problems with a simple analytical model and yielded, after a few elementary manipulations, dramatic...

This book reconsiders and analyses the different approaches historically proposed in the literature on growth and distribution. The contributors have achieved, through a comprehensive and cohesive analysis of the approaches of different schools of thought, a wide-ranging interpretation of a...

Lluís Barbé has recreated the background and life of Francis Ysidro Edgeworth through a fascinating exercise of reconstruction that succeeds in shaping the first detailed biography ever published of this major economist and statistician. Originating from previously unexplored letters and...