Controversies in Monetary Economics combines an explanation of past monetary controversies with practical proposals for the conduct of monetary policy in the contemporary global economy. Several alternative approaches to monetary economics are discussed, ranging from the traditional quantity...

Perspectives on the History of Economic Thought illustrates the administrative aspects that are an on-going component of most economic theory. It demonstrates that before the birth of political economy as a formal discipline, public and private administrators were formulating theories about...

This title focuses on the importance of the history of economic thought as an intellectual discipline. It counters the arguments of some contemporary economists who describe it as studying the mistakes of the past. However, all the great economists – Smith, Ricardo, Marx, Marshall, Keynes...

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...