Handbook on the History of Economic Analysis Volume III: Developments in Major Fields of Economics

by Gilbert Faccarello (Editor), Heinz D. Kurz (Editor)

Overview

This unique troika of Handbooks provide indispensable coverage of the history of economic analysis. Edited by two of the foremost academics in the field, they gather together insightful and original contributions from scholars across the world. The encyclopaedic breadth and scope of the original entries will make these Handbooks an invaluable source of knowledge for all serious students and scholars of the history of economic thought.

Each Handbook can be read individually and acts as a self-contained volume in its own right. They can be purchased separately or as part of a three-volume set.

Volume III contains entries on the development of major fields in economics from the inception of systematic analysis until modern times. The reader is provided with succinct summary accounts of the main problems, the methods used and the results obtained across time. The emphasis is on both the continuity and major changes that have occurred in the economic analysis of problematic issues such as economic growth, income distribution, employment, inflation, business cycles and financial instability.

Contributors: M. Assous, A. Baccini, Jr., A. Baujard, É. Bertrand, M. Boumans, J.L. Cardoso, M. Dal Pont-Legrand, J. De Boyer Des Roches, M. De Vroey, S. Di Rizzello, S. Diatkine, K. Dopfer, A.K. Dutt, R. Ege, G. Erreygers, D. Foley, R. Gómez Betancourt, D. Haas, H. Hagemann, E. Hosoda, H. Igersheim, A. Kirman, J. Kleinert, H. Kliemt, H.D. Kurz, R. Leonard, P. Malgrange, A. Maneschi, P. Mehrling, S. Mohun, M. Mosca, S. Noto, A. Opocher, N. Palan, F. Petri, A. Rainer, S. Rizzello, J.B. Rosser, M. Salles, N. Salvadori, M. Schütz, R. Signorino, A. Spada, P. Steiner, A. Stirati, R. Strohmaier, R. Sturn, C. Sunna, J.-F. Thisse, P. Tubaro, K. Watarai

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781788972390
Publisher:	Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication date:	05/23/2018
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	672
Product dimensions:	6.62(w) x 9.62(h) x (d)

About the Author

Edited by Gilbert Faccarello, Professor of Economics, Panthéon-Assas University, Paris, France and Heinz D. Kurz, Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of Graz and Graz Schumpeter Centre, Austria

Table of Contents

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Balance of Payment and Exchange Rates
Jérôme De Boyer Des Roches and Rebeca Gómez Betancourt

3. Behavioural and Cognitive Economics
Salvatore Di Rizzello and Anna Spada

4. Business Cycles and Growth
Michaël Assous, Muriel Dal Pont-Legrand and Harald Hagemann

5. Capital Theory
Fabio Petri

6. Competition
Neri Salvadori and Rodolfo Signorino

7. Corporatism
Sergio Noto

8. Development Economics
Amitava Krishna Dutt

9. Econometrics
Marcel Boumans

10. Economic Dynamics
J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.

11. Economic Geography
Jacques-François Thisse

12. Economic Sociology
Philippe Steiner

13. Economics And Philosophy
Hartmut Kliemt

14. Evolutionary Economics
Kurt Dopfer

15. Experimental Economics
Salvatore Rizzello and Anna Spada

16. Financial Economics
Perry Mehrling

17. Formalisation and Mathematical Modelling
Paola Tubaro

18. Game Theory
Robert Leonard

19. General Equilibrium Theory
Alan Kirman

20. Growth
Heinz D. Kurz and Neri Salvadori

21. Income Distribution
Arrigo Opocher

22. Industrial Organization
Manuela Mosca

23. Input-Output Analysis
Guido Erreygers

24. Institutional Economics
Élodie Bertrand

25. International Trade
Andrea Maneschi

26. Labour and Employment
Antonella Stirati

27. Macroeconomics
Michel De Vroey and Pierre Malgrange

28. Methods in the History of Economic Thought
José Luís Cardoso

29. Money and Banking
Jérôme De Boyer Des Roches and Sylvie Diatkine

30. Open Economy Macroeconomics
Joern Kleinert

31. Political Philosophy and Economics: Freedom and Labour
Ragip Ege and Herrade Igersheim

32. Population
Claudia Sunna

33. Poverty
Katsuyoshi Watarai

34. Public Economics
Richard Sturn

35. Resource and Environmental Economics
Eui Hosoda

36. Social Choice
Maurice Salles

37. Technical Change and Innovation
David Haas, Heinz D. Kurz, Nicole Palan, Andreas Rainer, Marlies Schütz and Rita Strohmaier

38. Theory of the Firm
Élodie Bertrand

39. Uncertainty and Information
Alberto Baccini

40. Utilitarianism and Anti-Utilitarianism
Antoinette Baujard

41. Value and Price
Duncan Foley and Simon Mohun

42. Welfare Economics
Antoinette Baujard

Index

Editorial Reviews

‘(This book) provides a comprehensive and complex history of the evolution of economic science, something that no other book does. That is why the Handbook of the History of Economic Analysis will soon become an indisputable guide for universities, in particular, and for the academic world, in general.’

The Journal of Philosophical Economics

‘(The authors) are to be lauded for what is by any standard a major accomplishment, and an important contribution to the existing scholarly literature in the history of economics.’

Harro Maas and Cléo Chassonnery-Zaigouche

‘This unique trio of Handbooks of economic analysis offers a comprehensive coverage of the history of the subject. It is a fascinating collection of essays on a wide range of topics in the field.

From the Publisher

‘(The authors) are to be lauded for what is by any standard a major accomplishment, and an important contribution to the existing scholarly literature in the history of economics.’

Harro Maas and Cléo Chassonnery-Zaigouche