This highly illuminating book marks a significant stage in our growing understanding of how the development of national traditions of economic thought has been affected by both internal and external factors.

Considers a Wirkungsgeschichte of Hermann Heinrich Gossen, focusing on the reactions of the three stars of the Marginal Revolution: William Stanley Jevons, Leon Walras and Carl Menger. Although Hermann Heinrich Gossen is today known as one of the forerunners of the Marginal Revolution, it was...

Presents an explanation of the theoretical structure of Roscher's Grundlagen, one of the most successful economics textbooks of the last century. Describes Roscher's writings on the English classical school and in doing so, digests basic ideas from Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill. Attempts to...

The paper presents a revisionist view of Carl Menger's monetary thought. Although Menger is widely regarded as understanding the monetary system as a Hayekian spontaneous order, Menger recognizes the importance of state in the historical development of money. In his 1900 'Geld', Menger...

This book investigates the tensions between subjectivism and objectivism in the history of economics. The book looks at the works of Adam Smith, Carl Menger, Leon Walras, William Stanley Jevons, Oskar Morgenstern, Ludwig Mises, Piero Sraffa, and so on. The book highlights the diverse subjective...

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- Part I Before the two world wars -- 1 The food weapon: milestones in the history of a concept (17th-19th centuries) -- 2 Why the wars? And how to pay for them? A comparison between Hume...