No question has more intrigued the minds of scholars of economic thought throughout history than that of the nature and meaning of time. The articles in this insightful collection attempt to provide satisfactory answers to fundamental issues on the use of time in economic theory. These volumes...

George Scrope was a prolific anti-Ricardian Tory economist, Member of Parliament and Fellow of the Royal Society. However, this was a highly eccentric toryism. Scrope opposed the Malthusian theory of population, favoured free trade and agitated for parliamentary reform. Thomas Attwood was the...

Building on the pioneering work by the Nobel Memorial Laureate, John Nash, Professor Thomson has brought together a broad selection of seminal articles which analyse and discuss bargaining and the theory of cooperative games. Beginning with a distinguished collection of papers discussing the...

This important book – written by leading economists and economic historians – analyses how institutions are shaped by economic forces, how institutions shape economic behaviour and how economics and politics interact in economic development. Part I deals with traditional economics...

Featuring important contributions from the 19th annual meeting of the History of Economics society, this book will be welcomed because it makes available to a wider audience a series of innovative essays on the history of intellectual and economic thought.

Economic Thought since Keynes outlines the evolution of economic thought since the publication of The General Theory, putting into perspective the trends, issues and developments in economics over the last half century. The book begins with an historical account of the schools, debates and...

The idea of a Classical School goes through cycles of interest and importance in the field of economics with a variety of meanings and interpretations attached to it. This insightful book, by Pier Luigi Porta, discusses what remains today of the main attempt to revive a Classical paradigm in...