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English, Irish and Subversives among the Dismal Scientists
Features a collection of essays on the Irish and English economists of the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Historians, Economists, and Economic History (Routledge Revivals)
First published in 1989, Alon Kadish’s study re-examines the standard view held by historians of economic thought whereby economic history emerged from the historicist criticism of neoclassical economic theory. He also demonstrates how the discipline evolved as an extension of the study of history. The study will appeal to students and scholars in historiography, the development of higher education and in the history if economic thought in general, as well as all those interested in the evolution of Oxford and Cambridge.
Part I: Oxford historians 1. The righteous wrath of James E. Thorold Rogers 2. Professors and tutors 3. Tutors and students Part II: The Cambridge economists 4. Economics at Cambridge, c.1885 5. Tinkering with the triposes 6. The liberation Part III: Economic history and the contradiction of economics 7. The contradiction of economics
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Economists at war : how a handful of economists helped win and lose the World Wars
Economists at War tells the story of a group of remarkable economists, and how they used their skills to help their countries fight their battles during the turbulent period covering the Chinese–Japanese War, World War I, and the Cold War. Politicians and generals cannot win wars if they do not have resources. This book focuses on the lives and achievements of seven finance ministers, advisors, and central bankers from Japan, China, Germany, the UK, the USSR, and the US. They all had connections, and their stories are interlinked. 1935–55 was a time of conflict, confrontation and destruction. It was also the time when the skills of economists were called upon to finance the military, to identify economic vulnerabilities, to help reconstruction. Economics was first used as a policy tool, and economists started to gain importance: macroeconomics, managerial economics, and computing were all born during this time. The reader sees the struggle to raise funds by taxing peasants, controlling banks, working in disrupted debt markets, inflating currencies, and cajoling aid-givers. There is tension between civilian resources and military requirements. There are desperate attempts to control economies wracked with inflation, depression, political argument, and fighting. There are clever schemes to evade sanctions, develop barter trade, and use economic espionage.There are struggles to apply good economic policy in the regimes of despots like Stalin, Hitler, and Chiang Kai-shek.. This book will interest economists, devotees of military history, and interested lay readers alike. It is a book about economics, but it is also a human story.
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Economists in Parliament in the Liberal Age
This detailed volume explores the role and actions of economists in US, Japanese and various European parliaments in the critical period between 1848 and 1920. Featuring chapters written by an international array of contributors from both economics and history, the book provides fascinating insights into the parliamentary life in the period. It highlights the often pivotal role of economists within each administration; examines their influence on policy making, their relationships with other MPs, civil servants, external economic associations and looks at the influence of public opinion on economic policy. The book also discusses the nature of the economic discourse practised in the parliamentary arena, considering the complex relationships between science and practice, and between politics and political economy in light of the evolution of economics during this period. The book is the first of its kind to provide a comparative framework for analysis, and will appeal to economists and historians alike.
Massimo M. Augello and Marco E.L. Guidi are Professors of History of Economic Thought at the University of Pisa, Italy. They are authors of several books and articles on the Italian economic thought of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, especially focusing on the institutionalization and professionalization of economics.
Contents: Foreword; Economists in parliament in the Liberal Age: a comparative perspective, Massimo M. Augello and Marco E.L. Guidi; Political economy in Portuguese parliamentary debates (1820-1910), António Almodovar and José LuÃs Cardoso; Economists in the Belgian parliament (1831-1918), Guido Erreygers and Bert Mosselmans; Chair, tribune and seat: Spanish economists in parliament (1844-1923). an exploration, Salvador Almenar; Economists in parliament in Britain (1848-1914), Roger E. Backhouse; French economists in parliament from the Second Republic to the outbreak of the Great Crisis (1848-1929), Yves Breton; German economists in parliament (1848-1918), Harald Hagemann and Matthias Rösch; Economists and political economy in the Italian parliament from the unification to the rise of the Fascism (1861-1922), Massimo M. Augello and Marco E.L. Guidi; Economists in the Greek Parliament (1862-1910): the men and their views on fiscal and monetary policy, Michalis Psalidopoulos and Adamantios Syrmaloglou; Economists in the Japanese diet (1890-1930): the debate on adoption of the Gold Standard, Jiro Kumagai; The American anomaly: why were there no economists in the US Congress?, Bradley W. Bateman; Index of Names.
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How to think like an economist : the great economists who shaped the world and what we can learn from them today
Capturing the essence of history's most influential economists in enjoyable and illuminating biographical sketches, this book shows how the great economic thinkers are still relevant today. We live in the economy - and we are part of it. Living through a pandemic, governments had to work out how to put economies into a deep freeze without destroying them. In explaining how economic thinking is indispensable to tackling these huge problems, this book is a sure-footed guide, spanning Aristotle's ideas about restraining consumption, Adam Smith's thinking about the importance of moral character for sustained economic development, and Esther Duflo's ongoing work to help the world's poorest communities lift themselves out of poverty. It shows how great economic thinkers have enabled us to see the world differently, and how we can make it better.
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Theorists of economic growth from David Hume to the present : with a perspective on the next century
This history of theories and theorists of economic growth elucidates in a unique way the economic theory, economic history, and public policy observations of the renowned scholar W.W. Rostow. Looking at the economic growth theories of the classic economists up to 1870, Rostow compares Hume and Adam Smith, Malthus and Ricardo, and J.S. Mill and Karl Marx. He then examines the periods 1870-1939 and its economic theorists, including Schumpeter, Colin Clark, Kuznets, and Harrod, and surveys the three forms of growth analysis in the postwar era: formal models, statistical morphology, and development theories.
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