GREAT THINKERS IN ECONOMICS SERIES
Series Editor: A.P. Thirlwall is Professor of Applied Economics, University of Kent, UK.
Great Thinkers in Economics is designed to illuminate the economics of some of the great historical and contemporary economists by exploring the interactions between their lives and work, and the events surrounding them. The books are brief and written in a style that makes them not only of interest to professional economists, but also intelligible for students of economics and the interested lay person.
Titles include:
Nicholas Kaldor
J. King
This book explores the life and work of Nicholas Kaldor, examining the influences that shaped and inspired his writings and opinions, and looking in detail at the crucial part he played in twentieth-century economics, from both a theoretical and a policy perspective. Offering a comprehensive intellectual portrait, the book explains this great economist's importance in his own time and in ours. Click here for
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Hardback | £60.00
978-0-2302-1725-6 | December 2008
Piero Sraffa
A. Roncaglia
Piero Sraffa is one of the key intellectual protagonists of the 20th century. This book provides a comprehensive overview of Sraffa's life and his influence on politicians, economists and philosophers such as Antonio Gramsci, John Maynard Keynes and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Click here for
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Hardback | £60.00
9781403987464 | April 2009
Joan Robinson
G.C Harcourt and P. Kerr
Joan Robinson, (1903-1983), is widely considered to be amongst the greatest economists of the twentieth century. After the success of her first book, The Economics of Imperfect Competition, Joan Robinson shifted her attention to Keynes's work. She was one of Keynes's circle of trusted colleagues, studying the theoretical possibilities offered by his General Theory. This book is not only indispensable reading for all interested in the history of Joan Robinson's life and work, but also to those studying Keynesian, Post-Keynesianism and economic development. Click here for
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Hardback | £65.00
9781403996404 | April 2009
Dennis Robertson
Gordon Fletcher
This book provides a comprehensive overview of Robertson's life and work. Uncovering the sources of Robertson's inspiration and ideas and the all-important causal relationship between the man and his work, this fascinating account is a must-read for all interested in rediscovering this great economist. Click here for more information.
Hardback | £60.00
978-1-4039-9934-4 | July 2008
This book presents the authentic Adam Smith and explores his underlying approach and radical thinking, aiming to re-establish his original intentions. The book provides a crucial reminder of how relevant Adam Smith was in his own time, and how relevant he remains as we experience the worldwide spread of opulence today. Click here for more information.
Hardback | £60.00
978-1-4039-9948-1 | July 2008
Franco Modigliani
Michael Szenberg and Lall Ramrattan
Starting with an overview of his Modigliani's life, the authors explain and assess Franco's influential theories, including his theory of the life-cycle hypothesis of saving; the famous Modigliani-Miller theorem in corporate finance; stabilisation policy; econometric model building and forecasting, and his legacy and influence on contemporary economics. Click here for more information.
Hardback | £60.00
978-0-230-00789-5 | Jan 2008
Alfred Marshall
Peter
Groenewegen
This thought-provoking biographical work explores the influences on the theories and writings of Alfred Marshall. He was undoubtedly the doyen of British economics for three and a half decades and is perhaps best known for his famous work 'Principles in Economics', first published in 1890. This succinct overview of Marshall's life and work as an economist sets his major economic contributions in perspective, by looking at his education, his travel, his teaching at Cambridge, Oxford and Bristol, his policy views as presented to government inquiries and his political and social opinions. Click here for more information.
Hardback | £55.00
978-1-4039-9620-6 | November 2007
Gunnar Myrdal
William J. Barber
Over the course of an extended career, Gunnar Myrdal - a Nobel Memorial Prize Laureate in Economics in 1974 - made brilliantly original contributions to monetary theory and policy and to the methodology of economics and social science. This study examines the manner in which his intellectual style left an impact on the shaping of Sweden's welfare state, on race relations in the United States, on post-World War Two economic cooperation in Europe, and on the analysis of Third World economic development. Click here for more information.
Hardback | £55.00
978-1-4039-9944-3 | November 2007
John Maynard Keynes
Paul
Davidson
This book examines the work of John Maynard Keynes, explores his influential writings and theories, and assesses his legacy. Davidson looks at the life of Keynes leading up to the writing of his seminal General Theory and traces the roots of this work in Keynes's early influences, examines the General Theory in detail and explores how it differs from classical theory. The impact of Keynes's work on the economy postwar and up to the present day is also assessed. Click here for more information.
Hardback | £55.00
978-1-4039-9623-7 | August 2007
Forthcoming Volumes
Michal Kalecki
J. LOPEZ & S. ASSOUS
Esben Sloth Anderson
JOSEPH A. SCHUMPETER
Michael A. Lebowitz
KARL MARX
Gerhard Michael Ambrosi
ARTHUR C. PIGOU
J.R. Stanfield
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
Warren Young and Esteban Perez
ROY HARROD
Roger Middleton
ROBERT SOLOW
Paul Mosley and Barbara Ingham
SIR ARTHUR LEWIS
Robert Dimand
JAMES TOBIN
Great Thinkers in Economics
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