Barnett - The Routledge handbook of the history of global economic thought

Routledge Handbook of the History of Global Economic Thought

Routledge Handbook of the History of Global Economic Thought offers the first comprehensive overview of the long-run history of economic thought from a truly international perspective. Although globalization has facilitated the spread of ideas between nations, the history of economics has tended to be studied either thematically (by topic), in terms of different currents of thought , or individually (by economist). Work has been published in the past on the economic thought traditions of specific countries, but this pioneering volume is unique in offering a wide-ranging comparative account of the development of economic ideas and philosophies on the international stage.

The volume brings together leading experts on the development of economic ideas from across the world in order to offer a truly international comparison of the economics within nation-states. Each author presents a long-term perspective on economics in their region, allowing global patterns in the progress of economic ideas over time to be identified.

The specially commissioned chapters cover the vast sweep of the history of economics across five world regions, including Europe (England, Scotland, Ireland, Italy, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Sweden, Russia and Ukraine), the Americas (the USA, Canada, Mexico and Central America, the Caribbean, Spanish-speaking South America, and Brazil), the Middle East (Turkey, Israel, Arab-Islamic economics, Persia/Iran and North Africa), Africa (West Africa, Southern Africa, Mozambique and Angola), and the Asia-Pacific region (Australia and New Zealand, China, Southeast Asia, the Asian Tigers and India).

This rigorous, ambitious and highly scholarly volume will be of key interest to students, academics, policy professionals and to interested general readers across the globe.

Vincent Barnett has been a Research Fellow for over two decades at numerous universities across the UK. His most recent books are the Routledge Historical Biography John Maynard Keynes (2013), and the first monograph in English exploring the work of E.E. Slutsky as Economist and Mathematician (2011).

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Routledge handbook of the history of global economic thought / edited by Vincent Barnett.

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2. Economic history. I. Barnett, Vincent, 1967

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Contents

Vincent Barnett

Roger Middleton

Alexander Dow and Sheila Dow

Renee Prendergast

Pier Luigi Porta

Michalis M. Psalidopoulos

Jos Lus Cardoso and Luis Perdices de Blas

Erik Grimmer-Solem

Lars Magnusson

Franois Allisson

J.E. King

Robin Neill

Richard Weiner

Mark Figueroa

Vernica Montecinos

Patrice Franko

Eyp zveren

Yuval Yonay and Arie Krampf

S.M. Ghazanfar

Hamid Hosseini

Hamed El-Said

Gareth Austin and Gerardo Serra

Tidings P. Ndhlovu and Nene Ernest Khalema

Steven Kyle

William Coleman

Zagros Madjd-Sadjadi

Cassey Lee and Thee Kian Wie

Takashi Kanatsu

Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran

Vincent Barnett

Franois Allisson, Centre Walras-Pareto, Switzerland.

Gareth Austin, The Graduate Institute, Geneva, Switzerland.

Vincent Barnett, Independent Scholar, England.

Luis Perdices de Blas, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.

Jos Lis Cardoso, University of Lisbon, Portugal.

Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Contemporary Studies, India.

William Coleman, Australian National University, Australia.

Alexander Dow, University of Victoria, Canada.

Sheila Dow, University of Sterling, Scotland.

Hamed El-Said, Manchester Metropolitan University, England.

Mark Figueroa, University of the West Indies, Jamaica.

Patrice Franko, Colby University, USA.

S.M. Ghazanfar, University of Idaho, USA.

Erik Grimmer-Solem, Wesleyan University, USA.

Hamid Hosseini, Kings College, Wilkes-Barre, USA.

Takashi Kanatsu, Hofstra University, USA.

Nene Ernest Khalema, University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa.

J.E. King, La Trobe University, Australia.

Arie Krampf, Academic College Tel Aviv Yaffo, Israel.

Steven Kyle, Cornell University, USA.

Cassey Lee, University of Wollongong, Australia.

Zagros Madjd-Sadjadi, Winston-Salem State University, USA.

Lars Magnusson, Uppsala University, Sweden.

Roger Middleton, University of Bristol, England.

Vernica Montecinos, Penn State University, USA.

Tidings P. Ndhlovu, Manchester Metropolitan University, England.

Robin Neill, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada.

Eyp zveren, Middle East Technical University, Turkey.

Pier Luigi Porta, University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy.

Renee Prendergast, Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Michalis M. Psalidopoulos, Tufts University, USA.

Gerardo Serra, London School of Economics, England.

Thee Kian Wie, Australian National University, Australia.

Richard Weiner, Indiana-Purdue University, Fort Wayne, USA.

Yuval Yonay, University of Haifa, Israel.

Vincent Barnett

This volume is devoted to documenting the development of economic thinking across the world and in all historical eras, partitioned on nation-state/geographical lines. If Ptolemys Cosmographia was an early attempt to delineate the worlds physical geography, then this Cosmoconomy (or Economographia) is a much more modest attempt to map the global contour-lines of economic ideas. As this is a very expansive focus, the volume cannot claim to provide an exhaustive account of the topic, or even an entirely comprehensive one: not every nation-state that exists today (or has existed in the past) is covered.