‘The Legacy of Ludwig von Mises will prove useful to both the expert in so-called Austrian economics as well as the novice who wonders what all the fuss is about. . . Boettke and Leeson have performed a valuable service in the history of...
‘This symposium brings together contributions of many of those who wrote for the IEA over the years and had their courage rewarded by gaining the Nobel Prize in economics. . . The writings of authors such as Hayek and Friedman are as rel...
Edited by Christopher Bliss, Avi J. Cohen, G. C. Harcourt
‘Capital theory has been the most difficult and contentious area in the whole of economics for a long time. That is why it keeps falling out of favour. But no matter how hard they try to bypass its many pitfalls, up-to-date economic theo...
‘When the review editor asked me whether I was interested in examining two volumes of edited articles with a total of around 1,500 pages my heart sank – another doorstop was on its way. Happily I can report to readers that these two volu...
No question has more intrigued the minds of scholars of economic thought throughout history than that of the nature and meaning of time. The articles in this insightful collection attempt to provide satisfactory answers to fundamental is...
‘The thoughtful anthology on studies of Veblen is most timely in an era when profits no longer have much to do with productivity and conspicuous consumption is more conspicuous than ever. America’s greatest social scientist dealt with em...
‘. . . this is a very fine collection of papers, which should be of great interest to every economist who is interested in the history and future of economic theory. . . this reference collection will make a very valuable addition to you...
‘Gathered together in this collection are all the main scholarly contributions to a set of crucial debates concerning the degree of convergence and divergence in the trajectory of modern capitalism, and the viability of different models ...
James Tobin was America’s most distinguished Keynesian economist, whose path-breaking theoretical work has demonstrated that Keynes’s original theories can be adapted to deal with modern macroeconomic problems. This significant volume pr...
‘Richard Easterlin has pioneered the study of happiness in economics. This book assembles an impressive collection of articles. It demonstrates the major insights gained by integrating individuals’ subjective satisfaction in order to bet...
James Buchanan has been a key figure in the integration of the analysis of political decision-making into the corpus of economic theory, the source for what is now called ‘public choice economics’. This notable volume seeks to identify f...
The computer revolution of the 1960s ushered in a golden period of econometric model building. Lawrence Klein was constantly in the forefront of this development. He was awarded the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for this and o...
