Considerations on the fundamental principles of pure political economy

Between May 1892 and October 1893, the Giornale degli Economisti published Vilfredo Pareto's "Considerazioni sui principi fondamentali dell'economia politica pura" in 5 parts. Viewed in its entirety, the outcome is essentially a classic monograph on the fundamental issues in pure economic theory in ...

Milton Friedman

a biography

Milton Friedman is one of the world's most important - and certainly one of the most famous - economists of the second half of the twentieth century, a key figure during the resurgence of American conservatism. He was an adviser to the Reagan administration, and he ...

Theories of financial disturbance

an examination of critical theories of finance from Adam Smith to the present day

Theories of Financial Disturbance, now available in paperback, examines how the operations of market-driven finance may initiate and transmit disturbances to the economy at large, by looking in detail at how various economists envisaged such disturbances occurring. This book is more than just a study ...

The economics of Friedrich Hayek

By his intellectual contributions in economics, epistemology, ethics, law, philosophy, politic and psychology, Friederich Hayek has come closest to a unified theory of human action. The central theme is of a natural and spontaneous evolution - founded upon essentially competitive processes, the cultural selection of systems ...

Postcapitalist politics

Examining practices and projects around the world that stand as examples of alternatives to capitalist politics and economics, the authors (J. K. Gibson-Graham is the combined pen name of two feminist economic geographers who work at the Australian National U. in Canberra and the U ...

The end of capitalism (as we knew it)

a feminist critique of political economy

In the mid-1990s, at the height of academic discussion about the inevitability of capitalist globalization, J. K. Gibson-Graham presented a groundbreaking and controversial argument for envisioning alternative economies. This new edition includes an introduction in which the authors address critical responses to The End of ...

The essential John Nash

When John Nash won the Nobel prize in economics in 1994, many people were surprised to learn that he was alive and well. Since then, Sylvia Nasar's celebrated biography A Beautiful Mind, the basis of a new major motion picture, has revealed the man ...

Theories of surplus value

books I, II and III

Marx's Theories of Surplus Value is the fourth volume of his monumental Das Kapital (Capital) and is now available exclusively from Prometheus and Humanity Books. Divided into three parts, this lengthy work reviews classic economic analyses of labor and value (Smith, Ricardo, Malthus, and ...

Principles of political economic

The standard economics textbook for more than a generation, John Stuart Mill's "Principles of Political Economy" (1848) was really as much a synthesis of his predecessors' ideas as it was an original economic treatise. Heavily influenced by the work of David Ricardo, and also ...

Keynes and his battles

This fascinating book is the first to bring together and examine all aspects of the life and work of one of the most influential thinkers of the last century, John Maynard Keynes, whose theses are still hotly debated. It combines, in an accessible, unique and ...

An essay on the principle of population

English economist and professor Thomas R. Malthus (1766-1834) caused great public controversy among the optimistic positivitists of his day when his Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) showed incontrovertibly that population, when unchecked, tends to increase faster than the availability of subsistence. Therefore preventive ...

The making of an economist, redux

Economists seem to be everywhere in the media these days. But what exactly do today's economists do? What and how are they taught? Updating David Colander and Arjo Klamer's classic "The Making of an Economist", this book shows what is happening in elite ...

The pure thoery of capital

"The Pure Theory of Capital", F. A. Hayek's long- overlooked, little-understood volume, was his most detailed work in economic theory. Originally published in 1941 when fashionable economic thought had shifted to John Maynard Keynes, Hayek's manifesto of capital theory is available again for ...

Jacob Mince

a founding father of modern labor economics

The first in a series of books published with the IZA, this book presents and analyzes the work of one of the most important economists of the 20th century - Jacob Mincer. Mincer's work has had a lasting influence on contemporary labor economics in both ...

J.K. Galbraith

a 20th century life

John Kenneth Galbraith was America's most famous economist for good reason. A witty commentator on America's political follies and a versatile author of bestselling books that warn prophetically of the dangers of deregulated markets, corporate greed, and inattention to the costs of U ...

The new industrial State

With searing wit and incisive commentary, John Kenneth Galbraith redefined America's perception of itself in "The New Industrial State, one of his landmark works. The United States is no longer a free-enterprise society, Galbraith argues, but a structured state controlled by the largest companies ...

On the wealth of nations

First published in 1776, Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations" was instantly recognized as the fundamental work of economics. In this hilarious and insightful examination of Smith and his groundbreaking work, OURourke shows why Smith is still relevant, why what seems obvious now was ...

Economics transformed

discovering the brilliance Marx

"The great academic scandal in the modern world is the prestige that has generally been accorded economic 'science'. Never has there been a social science so confident about its scientificity, while its practitioners were ideologically biased in the extreme." Robert Albritton brings to life the ...

El pasado cambiante

historiografía y capitalismo. Siglos XIX-XX

El pasado cambiante. Historiografía y capitalismo. Siglos xix-xx supone tanto un análisis de los diversos enfoques propuestos sobre el origen y desarrollo del capitalismo como una reflexión sobre la dinámica interna, en su contexto social, del trabajo de los historiadores. En los dos primeros capítulos ...

Human action

a treatise on economics

Mises attributes the tremendous technological progress and the consequent increase in wealth and general welfare in the last two centuries to the introduction of liberal government policies based on free-market economic teachings, creating an economic and political environment which permits individuals to pursue their respective ...