Chapter 1. Why Gunnar Myrdal? -- Chapter 2. Childhood, Study Years, Roots, and the Early Years with Alva -- Chapter 3. The Value Premises of Social Scientists Must Be Clarified -- Chapter 4. The Macroeconomic Revolution in Theory and Practice -- Chapter 5. The Emergence of the Welfare State...

Part I. Monetary Macroeconomics -- Chapter 1. Macro’s Missing Links. Exploring the Space between Monetarism and the Wicksell Connection (David Laidler) -- Chapter 2. The problems of inflation targeting originate in the monetary theory of Knut Wicksell (Lars Jonung) -- Chapter 3. Price...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Economy of Ancient Greece and the Beginning of Economic Thought -- Chapter 3. The Economy in the Middle Ages -- Chapter 4. Reflections of the Economy in Scholastic Thought -- Chapter 5. The Age of Mercantilism -- Chapter 6. Physiocracy -- Chapter 7. The...

PART I: THE PH.D. DISSERTATION: A Problem in the Theory of Distribution from Ricardo to Wicksell -- PART II: CRITIQUE OF MARGINAL PRODUCTIVITY THEORIES: Heterogeneous Capital, the Production Function and the Theory of Distribution -- Switching of Technique -- On a Change in the Notion of...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Methodology and its Use in Economics -- Chapter 3. The Origins of Economic Theory -- Chapter 4. Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations -- Chapter 5. David Ricardo’s Principles of Political Economy -- Chapter 6. Karl Marx’s Das Kapital -- Chapter 7. The...

Chapter 1. Italian women of the past: their economic culture and actions (Manuela Mosca) -- Part I. Women in business -- Chapter 2. Isabella De Mari Doria, a female investor and gambler in the Genoese aristocracy (Antonio Iodice) -- Chapter 3. Women and business: fresh evidence from the probate...

Chapter 1 Introduction: A Portrait of Jacques Rueff -- Chapter 2 The Economic Consequences of World War I: Keynes and Rueff -- Chapter 3 “Permanent Unemployment” and the Unemployment Insurance System in the United Kingdom -- Chapter 4 The German Transfer Controversy -- Chapter 5 The...

Chapter 1. Biographical outline of List's life and work -- Chapter 2. The systematic positioning of List's economic theory -- Chapter 3. The distinction between List's economic theory and other economic systems -- Chapter 4. Friedrich List - Mastermind of the social market economy -- Chapter 5....

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. A critical assessment of the evolution of standard game theory -- Chapter 3. Schelling’s reorientation of game theory: toward a theory of interdependent decisions -- Chapter 4. Bacharach: How the Variable Frame and Team Reasoning Theories challenge...

This book offers a fresh perspective on the early history of macroeconomics, by examining the macro-dynamic models developed from the late 1920s to the late 1940s, and their treatment of economic instability. It first explores the differences and similarities between the early mathematical...