History of Economic Thought

Covering November 1918 to the restoration of the Gold Standard in the UK in April 1925, this book, originally published in 1947, sets out and explains the economic facts of the immediate post-war period. There are sections on employment, production, government intervention in industry, the monetary ..

This book investigates the problems associated with mainstream monetary economics and finance, and proposes alternatives based on the Austrian school of economics. In monetary economics, the Austrian school regards the creation of money by banks through credit extension as a key source of economic i..

Bolshevism at a Deadlock was written Karl Kautsky, one of the leading Marxist intellectuals of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, in response to the catastrophic failures of Stalin’s first Five Year Plan, which was intended to raise Russian industry and productivity to equal that of ..

Bolshevism at a Deadlock was written Karl Kautsky, one of the leading Marxist intellectuals of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, in response to the catastrophic failures of Stalin’s first Five Year Plan, which was intended to raise Russian industry and productivity to equal that of ..

This study, first published in 1983, is primarily concerned with what the British economists over the period 1860 to 1914 wrote on a range of economic and non-economic aspects of the British Empire, and the reasons for their conclusions...

This study, first published in 1983, is primarily concerned with what the British economists over the period 1860 to 1914 wrote on a range of economic and non-economic aspects of the British Empire, and the reasons for their conclusions...

This volume underlines how, over the time span of two centuries, economic thought interacted with cycles in a continuous renewal of theories and rethinking of policies, whilst economic actions embedded themselves into past economic thought. It argues that studying crises and periods of growth in dif..

With its original contribution to the consideration of the most important social movements of our time, this book has become one of the greatest works of social theory written this century...

Part 1 of this volume analyses the main issues in the theory of Applied Economics. Part 2 surveys the rise of capitalist enterprise and indicates the importance of certain institutions in the growth and working of the economic system at the start of the twentieth century. The concluding chapters str..

This title lays bare the reality behind China's efforts at economic modernization. The author examines issues such as China's WTO membership; the Three Gorges Project; the widening differences between the urban and rural areas; and the situation facing the state enterprises...

This title lays bare the reality behind China's efforts at economic modernization. The author examines issues such as China's WTO membership; the Three Gorges Project; the widening differences between the urban and rural areas; and the situation facing the state enterprises...

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...