Front Cover -- Research in Economic History -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- A Century of Environmental Legislation -- Introduction -- Theory and Model -- Model -- Historical Evolution of Localized Values Reflected in National Decisions -- Data and Issues...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Economics before Keynes, I: Hume -- 2 Keynes at Versailles -- 3 Keynes and the Macmillan Committee -- 4 Economics before Keynes, II: Marshall -- 5 The General Theory -- 6 IS-LM Curves -- 7 The Liquidity Trap -- 8 Bretton Woods and the Swan Diagram -- 9 The...

The volume is a unique attempt to explore the relationship between two of the most interesting contemporary schools of thought evolving at the interface between social science and social philosophy: The Austrian tradition of F A Hayek and Ludwig von Mises, and the Bloomington tradition of Elinor...

Front Cover -- Revisiting Hayek's Political Economy -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- About the Contributors -- Introduction -- Notes -- References -- Hayek's Nobel -- Introduction -- Prelude -- The Nobel Prize Ceremony -- Hayek's Prize Lecture -- Battles of the Nobels --...

The great variety of topics in this year's Update allows readers to understand the current shape of the Chinese economy and to think deeply about policies and necessary reforms for future growth and development.

Economics is widely regarded as a social science. In this ground-breaking new study, Paul Fudulu crosses the divide between natural and social science to introduce a new theory of natural economic science, based on one of the most important causal laws of physics: the entropic degradation of the...

Front Cover -- The Political Economy of Chinese Finance -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Part I: An Overview and Conceptual Foundations -- Market Socialism with "Chinese Characteristics" -- Introduction -- Timeline of China's Economic Reform -- Confucianism, Socialism,...

Including chapters on British public debt in the 19th century, French financial controversies in the mid-1800s, and a thoughtful reflection on the USA's New Deal, this volume is a global exploration of public finance history. For researchers interested in the history of economics, this is an...

In this new volume of Research in Economic History, editors Christopher Hanes and Susan Wolcott bring together a cast of expert contributors to vigorously interrogate and analyze historic economics questions, looking across the political economy of the US, European history, and longstanding...