Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
About the Book Series
Economics continues to draw inspiration from the ideas of past economists. This series provides an arena for current debate in the study of the history of economics. Adhering to no single methodology, it includes volumes which explore the ideas of individual economists, major schools of thought, and the evolution of key ideas and theories within economic analysis.
Environment and Ecology in the History of Economic Thought: Reassessing the Legacy of the Classics
1st Edition
Edited
By Vitor Eduardo Schincariol
December 26, 2025
This volume proposes a reconsideration of ecological and environmental aspects of the work and ideas of various heterodox authors and traditions in the history of economic thought, including the field of economic development. Many of the contributors to this book focus on thinkers and works which ...
Schumpeter’s General Theory of Capitalism
1st Edition
By Tristan Velardo
December 26, 2025
Joseph A. Schumpeter made multiple contributions to economic science and beyond. Drawing on this wide range of writings, this book argues that Schumpeter provided a theoretical account of capitalism as a total phenomenon. It methodically reconstructs the “general theory” of capitalism present in ...
The Economic Thought of Hilaire Belloc: A Christian Alternative to the Servile State
1st Edition
By Alfonso Díaz Vera
December 26, 2025
Hilaire Belloc’s thinking on the economy constitutes, by its originality and acuity, a heterodox approach of the greatest interest in addressing the economic problems of his time and those of our own. Belloc’s main interest as a writer were on economics and history, and his works were praised by ...
A History of Economic Thought at the Frankfurt Institute: Beyond the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School, 1923-1945
1st Edition
By Ali Ahmad
December 19, 2025
The Frankfurt Institute continues to command the interest of a wide range of scholars working in history, philosophy, sociology, and political science. Yet, the prevailing narrative about the Institute overlooks a crucial component of its history: the economic theories developed by its lesser-known...
Adam Smith and the East India Company
1st Edition
By Mark Donoghue
December 11, 2025
This book examines Adam Smith’s perspectives on the India question during a pivotal juncture when the East India Company evolved from a commercial enterprise into a de facto imperial authority in India. Smith astutely recognised the significance of this transition and anticipated its potential to ...
Market Economists Beyond the West: The Agents of Peripheral Liberalism, 1970–2020
1st Edition
Edited
By Tobias Rupprecht
December 05, 2025
This book offers a survey of ideas and practices of economic liberalism beyond Western Europe and North America. It traces the intellectual development and political agency of pro-market economists in Eastern Europe, East Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and West Africa, from the 1970s onwards...
Adam Smith’s Incomplete System
1st Edition
By Sergio Cremaschi
November 21, 2025
On his deathbed, Adam Smith ordered the burning of two unfinished works on epistemology and politics, fearing that his image as a philosopher would be tarnished and his ideas misinterpreted. This book argues that the inability to complete these two works is symptomatic of tensions for which Smith ...
A Contemporary Comprehensive Economic Science: The Economic Thought and Legacy of Maffeo Pantaleoni
1st Edition
Edited
By Stefano Spalletti, Francesca Spigarelli
November 18, 2025
Covering Maffeo Pantaleoni’s key areas of contribution to economics, this book provides a comprehensive study of one of the foremost economic thinkers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Called the ‘prince’ of Italian economists by Piero Sraffa, among others, Maffeo Pantaleoni (1857–1924) ...
Socialist Economics in Yugoslavia: A Critical History
1st Edition
By Marko Grdešić, Mislav Žitko
October 31, 2025
This book presents a critical history of Yugoslav socialist economics, from its inception in the late 1940s to its dissolution in the late 1980s. After the dramatic break with the Soviet Union in 1948, Yugoslavia found itself in urgent need of a third way: A socialist trajectory which would not ...
Adam Smith on the Ancients and the Moderns
1st Edition
By Gloria Vivenza
September 29, 2025
The classics heavily influenced many aspects of European modern culture, yet it is not easy to trace their intellectual power on any author. In this volume, Gloria Vivenza takes on the impressive task of examining how philosophy, history, literature, politics, and ethics all played a part in ...
Arthur Spiethoff and the German Historical School of Economics: Continuities and Discontinuities
1st Edition
By Vitantonio Gioia
September 29, 2025
Arthur Spiethoff (1873–1957), an economist of the German Historical School of Economics, is best known for his theory of the business cycle. Despite Spiethoff calling for a unified reading of his work, his epistemological thinking has received less attention. This book addresses that gap by ...
The Entrepreneur in the History of Political Economy: The Hunting for Heffalumps in the Early Economic Analysis
1st Edition
By José M. Menudo
August 15, 2025
Modern economic theory has marginalised the figure of the entrepreneur, despite their significance in economic activity. Entrepreneurs rose in prominence as economic agents during the Enlightenment, but no consensus on this issue was formed in the period. This book addresses the role of the ...