A science and its history -- Before Adam Smith -- Adam Smith -- The classical school : Thomas Robert Malthus and David Ricardo -- Consolidation and innovation : John Stuart Mill -- Karl Marx as an economic theorist -- The forerunners of marginalism -- The marginalist revolution I : William...

Since the 1980s there has been a renewed interest in attempts to introduce a sense of history into economic literature. In this book, the authors argue that it is not possible to explain a state of the world without first analysing the processes that lead to that state. The contributions...

1. Editorial: Consequences of Social Transformation for Economic Theory -- 2. A Survey on Business Cycles: History, Theory and Empirical Findings -- 3. Implementation of the Evolutionary-Genetic Methodology in the Mechanisms of Synthesis of Economic Theory -- 4. Synthesis of Mainstream and...