1. Smith and Economic Liberalism -- 2. Hume’s challenge: Hume’s theory of promise -- 3. The rules of the game -- 4. The (Benign) Economic Consequences of the Mercantile System -- 5. The malignant effects of the mercantile system -- 6. Economic Progress without Capital Accumulation -- 7. The...

Tiziano Raffaelli (Pisa 1950) was a widely esteemed scholar in the field of the history and methodology of economics, who died suddenly in January 2016 while still in the midst of working and of developing projects for new lines of research. He was a philosopher of science by formation and a...

1. Introduction -- 2. Eucken’s Competition with Keynes: Beyond the Ordoliberal Allergy to the Keynesian Medicine -- 3. Third-Way Perspectives on Order in Interwar France: Personalism and the Political Economy of François Perroux -- 4. Corporatism and Planning in Monnet’s Idea of Europe --...

Foreword -- Part One: Revisiting Marshall’s Economics -- 1. Alfred Marshall in the Lower Valdarno -- 2. The organization of knowledge and knowledge as organization -- 3.Raffaelli on historical progress in Smith and in Marshall -- 4. Marshall's external economies. Economic evolution and...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Section 1: The Concept of Fetishism -- Chapter 2: The Origins of the Term in Marx’s Writings -- Chapter 3: The Development of the Concept over Time -- Chapter 4: Fetishism: a Preliminary Exegesis -- Section 2: The Ontology of Fetishism -- Chapter 5: Fetishism of...

This book offers the first intellectual biography of the Anglo Australian economist, Colin Clark. Despite taking the economics world by storm with a mercurial ability for statistical analysis, Clark’s work has been largely overlooked in the 30 years since his death. His career was punctuated...

1. Introduction -- 2. Rationality as reasonableness: probability -- 3. Complexity and incommensurability: multidimensional, heterogeneous and interdependent magnitudes -- 4. The methodology of critique: probability and classical economic theory -- 5. Uncertainty as Greek tragedy’s legacy -- 6....

1: Introduction -- Part I: Classical Monetary Theory -- 2: A Reinterpretation of Classical Monetary Theory.-3: On Some Classical Monetary Controversies -- 4: The Real Bills Doctrine in the Light of the Law of Reflux -- 5: Classical Monetary Theory and the Quantity Theory -- 6: Monetary...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Institution: designed system faced by Ming merchants -- Chapter 3: Monopoly: merchants and monarchy -- Chapter 4: Taxation: levy on merchants -- Chapter 5: International Trade: merchants’ predicament and opportunities -- Chapter 6: Consumption: two pairs...