The present paper investigates the perception of market and mechanism of pricing among the sixteenth century Muslim scholars, a period hitherto unexplored. In the commencement it briefly states the insufficient attention that the subject of market – the most fundamental element of Economics...

This work concentrates in the fundamental ideas that constitute the existing theoretical framework of the poverty measurement from the 1960’s to the state-of-the-art, with an extended comment on the more relevant issues, the presentation of more influencing approaches and the probable path of...

Despite its important contributions to economic thought, namely in the field of spatial economics and economics of development, François Perroux, one of the most important French economists of the 20st century, remains today poorly appreciated and frequently unrecognized. This paper tends to...

Pour beaucoup, le Tiers monde victime de la puissance économique des pays industriels et de leurs théories économiques. Vu du Sud, l’intégrisme planificateur et le fondamentalisme de marché sont obsolètes. Quel modèle pour le Tiers monde ? Retrouver les solidarités perdues, revoir le...

John Rawls, uno de los más influyentes filósofos contemporáneos, nos hizo volver a pensar en términos de justicia. Desde el comienzo del desarrollo de su teoría, Rawls intentó establecer un diálogo con los economistas porque creía que tenían un enorme ascendiente sobre nuestros...

Following the seminal work of the late nineteenth century economist Etienne Laspeyres I analyse the incidence of the Prussian milling and slaughter tax shortly before its repeal in 1875. A comparison of flour prices in cities which levied this tax with those that did not reveals unusually strong...

Following the seminal work of late nineteenth century economist Etienne Laspeyres we analyse the incidence of the Prussian milling and slaughter tax shortly before its repeal in 1875. A comparison of flour prices in cities which levied this tax with cities that did not reveals unusually strong...

Where did Fitzgerald get the idea of having Clay's Economics reside in Nick Carraway's library?

Based on literary sources and following Marshall Berman and Benedict Anderson’s theory, this article outlines some key tendencies of English society prior to World War I. Economic modernization and political imperialism emerged while the cultural avant garde (i.e. modernism) was pushed into...