This book brings together fourteen essays by leading authors in the field of economics to explore the relationship between money and markets throughout economic theory and history, providing readers with the key to understanding fundamental issues in monetary theory and other important debates in contemporary economics.

Addressing this popular and topical area in economic discussion and debate an impressive array of contributors, including Meghnad Desai, Charles Goodhart and John Davis examine the theory, policy and history of economics in the USA, Europe and Japan. The subjects...

Contributions to female economic thought have come from prolific scholars, leading social reformers, economic journalists and government officials along with many other women who contributed only one or two works to the field. This book brings together the most comprehensive collection to date of references to women's economic writing from the 1770s to 1940. It includes thousands of contributions from more than 1700 women from the UK, the US and many other countries.

Dealing with the origins and development of modern approaches to expectations in micro and macroeconomics, this work makes use of primary sources and previously unpublished material from such figures as Hicks, Hawtrey and Hart.

'Essays in the History of Economics' brings together some of the foremost scholars in the field to discuss topics including the etiology of Adam Smith's division of labour & how Thorstein Veblen is perceived as an economic theorist.

Touching on themes such as capital theory, expectations, policy, market theory and the history of economic thought, this volume centres on the relationship between Austrian and Swedish economics, and should appeal across a wide range of disciplines with economics as well as the philosophy of social science.

This is a collection of essays in honour of Peter Groenewegen, one of the most distinguished historians of economic thought of a generation.

The contributions in this book show that the concept of the 'experiment' has been persistently present, in various guises, throughout the history of the field. This has been most obviously shown by the post-war rise of behavioural economics.

Knut Wicksell is arguably the greatest Swedish social scientist of all time, and poverty was a theme that occupied him all his life. Indeed, it was probably Wicksell's interest in poverty that was the critical factor in drawing him away from his purely mathematical background towards a greater understanding of the social sciences as a whole. In this outstanding volume, Mats Lundahl, one of the world's leading development economists, examines Wicksell's thinking in the area of poverty, and shows the importance of his contributions to this field.

Sasan Fayazmanesh covers key topics in monetary theory such as the theory of the difficulties of barter as the origin of money and the concept of exchange as an equation.

Some of the greatest thinkers in the history of economic thought have been instrumental in advancing the study of development economics. In this volume, leading scholars are brought together to illuminate this tradition, with particular emphasis on the question of growth and development. Divided into two parts, this collection offers a blend of papers of history of economic thought and development economics, and suggests that classical political economy - that strand of thought which goes from Physiocracy to Smith and to Ricardo and Marx - has a precise vision and indeed a precise model of...