The 'nihonjinron' is a body of writing and thought which constitutes a major and highly thought of academic industry in Japan. It analyses the Japanese identity and presupposes that the Japanese differ radically from other people in their make-up. This book is an analysis of the thought on which the 'nihonjinron' is based.

First published in 1987, this text offers an evolutionary approach to macroeconomics as an alternative to contemporary new classical and Keynesian macroeconomics. In order to develop such an approach, an alternative view of the micro-foundations of macroeconomics is presented.

This text is a critical introduction to the work of four philosophers: Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, George Herbert Mead and John Dewey. Alongside providing a biographical account of the pragmatist movement, the work offers a critical response to the philosophical doctrines of the four thinkers of the pragmatist movement.

The lectures reprinted in this book aim to trace the development of the social sciences during the 20th century and to show the role of the London School of Economics and Political Science in this development since it was founded in 1895.

First published in 1980, this book considers the British motor industry over the period between 1945 and 1979, analysing thewaysin which the industry suffered a considerable decline in the post-war era, when compared to motor industries of other countries or to most other British industries.

The essays and letters of Ervin Szabo (1877-1918) present proof of his critical insight into Marxist theory and of his perceptive analysis of socialism around the turn of the century. His ideals of an engaged social science and an enlightened socialism, his preoccupation with the socialist future, are still relevant today."

'The Theory of Money and Finance', by the same author, provided an introduction to the basic theory and concluded by introducing the idea of monetary disequilibrium, with the money supply process operating through bank credit creation. This book develops that theme and provides empirical evidence in support of such an approach.

First published in English in 1926, this work by Nikolai Bukharin, a highly influential Marxist and Soviet politician who would later become one of the most famous victims of Stalin's show trials, expands upon Karl Marx's theory of historical materialism.

First published in 1986, Mary Douglas' theory of institutions uses the sociological theories of Emile Durkheim and Ludwig Fleck to determine not only how institutions think, but also the extent to which thinking itself is dependent upon institutions.

First published in 1911, this pioneering and ambitious work provides a history of the evolution of republican thought and practice in Europe from the fall of the Roman Empire to the beginning of the twentieth century.