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Handbook on the History of Economic Analysis Volume I
Great Economists Since Petty and Boisguilbert
9781849801102 Edward Elgar Publishing
Volume I contains original biographical profiles of many of the most important and influential economists from the seventeenth century to the present day. These inform the reader about their lives, works and impact on the further development of the discipline. The emphasis is on their lasting contributions to our understanding of the complex system known as the economy. The entries also shed light on the means and ways in which the functioning of this system can be improved and its dysfunction reduced.
Each Handbook can be read individually and acts as a self-contained volume in its own right. It can be purchased separately or as part of a three-volume set.
Each Handbook can be read individually and acts as a self-contained volume in its own right. It can be purchased separately or as part of a three-volume set.
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This unique troika of Handbooks provides indispensable coverage of the history of economic analysis. Edited by two of the foremost academics in the field, the volumes 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.
Volume I contains original biographical profiles of many of the most important and influential economists from the seventeenth century to the present day. These inform the reader about their lives, works and impact on the further development of the discipline. The emphasis is on their lasting contributions to our understanding of the complex system known as the economy. The entries also shed light on the means and ways in which the functioning of this system can be improved and its dysfunction reduced.
Volume I contains original biographical profiles of many of the most important and influential economists from the seventeenth century to the present day. These inform the reader about their lives, works and impact on the further development of the discipline. The emphasis is on their lasting contributions to our understanding of the complex system known as the economy. The entries also shed light on the means and ways in which the functioning of this system can be improved and its dysfunction reduced.
Critical Acclaim
‘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.
Edited by two of the most distinguished academics in the field, Dr Gilbert Faccarello, [Professor of Economics, Panthéon-Assas University, Paris, France] and Dr Heinz D. Kurz, [Emeritus Professor
of Economics, University of Graz and Graz Schumpeter Centre, Graz, Austria], the volumes offer many original contributions from scholars across the globe. There are many distinguished contributions on a wide gamut of economics included here of interest to students and teachers of both this subject and management.’
– Malcolm Warner, Asia Pacific Business Review
‘(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, The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought
‘(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
Edited by two of the most distinguished academics in the field, Dr Gilbert Faccarello, [Professor of Economics, Panthéon-Assas University, Paris, France] and Dr Heinz D. Kurz, [Emeritus Professor
of Economics, University of Graz and Graz Schumpeter Centre, Graz, Austria], the volumes offer many original contributions from scholars across the globe. There are many distinguished contributions on a wide gamut of economics included here of interest to students and teachers of both this subject and management.’
– Malcolm Warner, Asia Pacific Business Review
‘(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, The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought
‘(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
Contributors
Contributors: T. Asada, T. Aspromourgos, M. Assous, V. Avtonomov, R. Baranzini, A. Baujard, A. Béraud, É. Bertrand, O. Bjerkholt, P. Boettke, D. Bögenhold, A. Brewer, G. Campagnolo, V. Caspari, V. Chick J. Creedy, F. Dal Degan, M. Dal Pont-Legrande, M. Dardi, J. de Boyer des Roches, V. Di Giovinazzo, D. Diatkine, R.W. Dimand, R. Dujmovits, I. Eliseeva, R.B. Emmett, N. Eyguesier, G. Faccarello, O. Favereau, A. Fossati, W. Gaertner, C. Gehrke, A. Giuliani, J. Glaeser, M. Gödl, R. Gómez Betancourt, H. Gram, M.E.L. Guidi, D. Haas, H. Hagemann, G.C. Harcourt, M.J. Holler, H. Janssen, J. Jespersen, J. Joachim Zweynert, P. Kalmbach, Y.-F. Kao, J.E. King, A. Kirman, H. Klausinger, M. Knell, S. Kolev, H.D. Kurz, B.J. Loasby, N. Makasheva, C. Martin, M. McLure, A. Molavi Vasséi, A.E. Murphy, L. Nellinger, S. Oliver, A. Opocher, A. Orain, T. Raffaelli, A. Rainer, G. Rubin, M. Rutherford, M. Salles, N. Salvadori,B. Schefold, M. Schneider, C.P. Schröder, M.H. Schütz, U. Schwalbe, R. Signorino, N. Skaggs, P. Spahn, P. Steiner, R. Sturn, H.-M. Trautwein, K. Tribe, R. Van den Berg, V. Vanberg, K. Velupillai, R. Venkatachalam, C.C. von Weizsäcker, L.R. Wray, K. Yahia
Contents
Contents:
1. Introduction
2. William Petty (1623-1687)
Tony Aspromourgos
3. Pierre Le Pesant de Boisguilbert (1646-1714)
Gilbert Faccarello
4. John Law (1671-1729)
Antoin E. Murphy
5. Richard Cantillon (1680/90-1734)
Antoin E. Murphy
6. Charles-Louis de Secondat de Montesquieu (1689-1755)
Arnaud Orain
7. François Quesnay (1694-1774) and Physiocracy
Arnaud Orain and Philippe Steiner
8. Daniel Bernoulli (1700-1782)
Gilbert Faccarello
9. David Hume (1711-1776)
Daniel Diatkine
10. James Steuart [James Denham-Steuart] (1712-1780)
Anthony Brewer
11. Adam Smith (1723-1790)
Tony Aspromourgos
12. Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot (1727-1781)
Gilbert Faccarello
13. Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat de Condorcet (1743-1794)
Gilbert Faccarello
14. Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
Marco E.L. Guidi
15. Achille-Nicolas Isnard (1748-1803)
Richard van den Berg
16. Henry Thornton (1760-1815)
Jérôme de Boyer des Roches
17. Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834)
Catherine Martin
18. Jean-Baptiste Say (1767-1832)
Alain Béraud
19. David Ricardo (1772-1823)
Heinz D. Kurz
20. Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde de Sismondi (1773-1842)
Francesca Dal Degan and Nicolas Eyguesier
21. Thomas Tooke (1774-1858)
Neil Skaggs
22. Robert Torrens (c.1780-1864)
Christian Gehrke
23. Johann Heinrich von Thünen (1783-1850)
Ludwig Nellinger
24. Barthélémy-Charles Dunoyer de Segonzac (1786–1862)
Alain Béraud
25. Friedrich List (1789-1846)
Stefan Kolev and Joachim Zweynert
26. Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850)
Alain Béraud
27. Antoine-Augustin Cournot (1801-1877)
Alain Béraud
28. Jules Dupuit (1804-1866)
Alain Béraud
29. John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
Arrigo Opocher
30. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865)
Alain Béraud
31. Hermann Heinrich Gossen (1810-1858)
Heinz D. Kurz
32. Bruno Hildebrand (1812-1878)
Bertram Schefold
33. Wilhelm George Friedrich Roscher (1817-1894)
Heinz D. Kurz
34. Karl Heinrich Marx (1818-1883)
Gilbert Faccarello, Christian Gehrke and Heinz D. Kurz
35. Clément Juglar (1819-1905)
Muriel Dal Pont-Legrande
36. Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912)
Alain Béraud
37. Walter Bagehot (1826-1877)
Jérôme de Boyer des Roches
38. Marie Esprit Léon Walras (1834-1910)
Roberto Baranzini
39. William Stanley Jevons (1835-1882)
John Creedy
40. Adolph Heinrich Gotthilf Wagner (1834-1917)
Rudolf Dujmovits and Richard Sturn
41. Gustav Friedrich von Schmoller (1838-1917)
Johannes Glaeser
42. Henry Sidgwick (1838-1900)
Keith Tribe
43. Carl Menger (1840-1921)
Gilles Campagnolo
44. Alfred Marshall (1842-1924)
Tiziano Raffaelli
45. Philip Henry Wicksteed (1844-1927)
John Creedy
46. Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (1845-1926)
John Creedy
47. John Bates Clark (1847-1938)
Marlies Hanna Schütz
48. Vilfedo Pareto (1848-1923)
Michael McLure
49. Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk (1851-1914)
Carl Christian von Weizsäcker
50. Knut Wicksell (1851-1926)
Hans-Michael Trautwein
51. Friedrich von Wieser (1851-1926)
Richard Sturn
52. Maffeo Pantaleoni (1857-1924)
Marco Dardi
53. Thorstein Bunde Veblen (1857-1929)
Alfonso Giuliani
54. Antonio De Viti de Marco (1858-1943)
Amedeo Fossati
55. John Atkinson Hobson (1858-1940)
Michael Schneider
56. Georg Simmel (1858-1918)
Dieter Bögenhold
57. Enrico Barone (1859-1924)
Marco Dardi
58. Max Weber (1864-1920)
Keith Tribe
59. Mikhail Ivanovich Tugan-Baranovsky (1865-1919)
Vladimir Avtonomov and Natalia Makasheva
60. Gustav Cassel (1866-1945)
Hans-Michael Trautwein
61. Irving Fisher (1867-1947)
Harald Hagemann
62. Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz (1868-1931)
Christian Gehrke and Heinz D. Kurz
63. Vladimir Karpovich Dmitriev (1868-1913)
Christian Gehrke
64. Louis Bachelier (1870-1946)
Alain Béraud
65. Arthur Spiethoff (1873-1957)
David Haas
66. Albert Aftalion (1874-1956)
Muriel Dal Pont-Legrand
67. Wesley Clair Mitchell (1874-1948)
Malcolm Rutherford
68. Edwin Walter Kemmerer (1875-1945)
Rebeca Gómez Betancourt
69. Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877-1959)
Hansjörg Klausinger
70. Ralph George Hawtrey (1879-1975)
Jérôme de Boyer des Roches
71. Evgeni Evgenievich Slutsky (1880-1948)
Irina Eliseeva
72. Ludwig Heinrich von Mises (1881-1973)
Richard Sturn
73. John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946)
Victoria Chick and Jesper Jespersen
74. Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883-1950)
Richard Sturn
75. Frank H. Knight (1885-1972)
Ross B. Emmett
76. Karl Polanyi (1886-1964)
Peter Kalmbach
77. Walter Eucken (1891-1950)
Hauke Janssen
78. Erik Lindahl (1891-1960)
Christian Gehrke
79. Adolph Lowe (1893-1995)
Harald Hagemann
80. Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch (1895-1973)
Olav Bjerkholt
81. Jacob Marschak (1898-1977)
Harald Hagemann
82. Gunnar Myrdal (1898-1987)
Hans-Michael Trautwein
83. Lionel Charles Robbins (1898-1984)
Andreas Rainer
84. Piero Sraffa (1898-1983)
Heinz D. Kurz and Neri Salvadori
85. Edward H. Chamberlin (1899-1967)
Rodolfo Signorino
86. Friedrich August von Hayek (1899-1992)
Peter Boettke
87. Michał Kalecki (1899-1970)
Michaël Assous
88. Roy Forbes Harrod (1900-1978)
Michaël Assous
89. Abba Ptachya Lerner (1903-1982)
Volker Caspari
90. John von Neumann (1903-1957)
Manfred J. Holler
91. Frank Plumpton Ramsey (1903-1930)
K. Vela Velupillai and Ragupathy Venkatachalam
92. Joan Violet Robinson (1903-1983)
Harvey Gram
93. George Lennox Sharman Shackle (1903-1992)
Brian J. Loasby
94. Jan Tinbergen (1903-1994)
Mark Knell
95. John Richard Hicks (1904-1989)
Harald Hagemann
96. Oskar Ryszard Lange (1904-1965)
Michaël Assous
97. Richard Ferdinand Kahn (1905-1989)
Geoffrey C. Harcourt
98. Wassily W. Leontief (1905-1999)
Olav Bjerkholt
99. Heinrich von Stackelberg (1905-1946)
Ulrich Schwalbe
100. James Edward Meade (1907-1995)
Volker Caspari
101. Nicholas Kaldor (1908-1986)
John E. King
102. Ronald Harry Coase (1910-2013)
Élodie Bertrand
103. Richard Abel Musgrave (1910-2007)
Richard Sturn
104. Tibor Scitovsky (1910-2002)
Viviana Di Giovinazzo
105. Maurice Allais (1911-2010)
Alain Béraud
106. Milton Friedman (1912-2006)
Christian Philipp Schröder and Peter Spahn
107. Abram Bergson [Abram Burk] (1914-2003)
Antoinette Baujard
108. Paul Anthony Samuelson (1915-2009)
Carl Christian von Weizsäcker
109. Herbert Alexander Simon (1916-2001)
K. Vela Velupillai and Ying-Fang Kao
110. James Tobin (1918-2002)
Robert W. Dimand
111. James M. Buchanan (1919-2013)
Viktor Vanberg
112. Hyman Philip Minsky (1919-1996)
L. Randall Wray
113. Kenneth Joseph Arrow (1921)
Maurice Salles
114. Gérard Debreu (1921-2004)
Alan Kirman
115. Don Patinkin (1922-1995)
Goulven Rubin
116. Michio Morishima (1923-2004)
Toichiro Asada
117. Robert Merton Solow (1924)
Peter Kalmbach
118. John Forbes Nash (1928-2015)
Robert W. Diamand and Khalid Yahia
119. Robert Alexander Mundell (1932)
Oliver Sauter and Peter Spahn
120. Takashi Negishi (1933)
Toichiro Asada
121. Amartya Kumar Sen (1933)
Wulf Gaertner
122. Robert E. Lucas (1937)
Arash Molavi Vasséi snd Peter Spahn
123. George Akerlof (1940)
Olivier Favereau
124. Joseph Eugene Stiglitz (1943)
Max Gödl
125. Paul Robin Krugman (1953)
Max Gödl
Index
1. Introduction
2. William Petty (1623-1687)
Tony Aspromourgos
3. Pierre Le Pesant de Boisguilbert (1646-1714)
Gilbert Faccarello
4. John Law (1671-1729)
Antoin E. Murphy
5. Richard Cantillon (1680/90-1734)
Antoin E. Murphy
6. Charles-Louis de Secondat de Montesquieu (1689-1755)
Arnaud Orain
7. François Quesnay (1694-1774) and Physiocracy
Arnaud Orain and Philippe Steiner
8. Daniel Bernoulli (1700-1782)
Gilbert Faccarello
9. David Hume (1711-1776)
Daniel Diatkine
10. James Steuart [James Denham-Steuart] (1712-1780)
Anthony Brewer
11. Adam Smith (1723-1790)
Tony Aspromourgos
12. Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot (1727-1781)
Gilbert Faccarello
13. Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat de Condorcet (1743-1794)
Gilbert Faccarello
14. Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
Marco E.L. Guidi
15. Achille-Nicolas Isnard (1748-1803)
Richard van den Berg
16. Henry Thornton (1760-1815)
Jérôme de Boyer des Roches
17. Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834)
Catherine Martin
18. Jean-Baptiste Say (1767-1832)
Alain Béraud
19. David Ricardo (1772-1823)
Heinz D. Kurz
20. Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde de Sismondi (1773-1842)
Francesca Dal Degan and Nicolas Eyguesier
21. Thomas Tooke (1774-1858)
Neil Skaggs
22. Robert Torrens (c.1780-1864)
Christian Gehrke
23. Johann Heinrich von Thünen (1783-1850)
Ludwig Nellinger
24. Barthélémy-Charles Dunoyer de Segonzac (1786–1862)
Alain Béraud
25. Friedrich List (1789-1846)
Stefan Kolev and Joachim Zweynert
26. Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850)
Alain Béraud
27. Antoine-Augustin Cournot (1801-1877)
Alain Béraud
28. Jules Dupuit (1804-1866)
Alain Béraud
29. John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
Arrigo Opocher
30. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865)
Alain Béraud
31. Hermann Heinrich Gossen (1810-1858)
Heinz D. Kurz
32. Bruno Hildebrand (1812-1878)
Bertram Schefold
33. Wilhelm George Friedrich Roscher (1817-1894)
Heinz D. Kurz
34. Karl Heinrich Marx (1818-1883)
Gilbert Faccarello, Christian Gehrke and Heinz D. Kurz
35. Clément Juglar (1819-1905)
Muriel Dal Pont-Legrande
36. Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912)
Alain Béraud
37. Walter Bagehot (1826-1877)
Jérôme de Boyer des Roches
38. Marie Esprit Léon Walras (1834-1910)
Roberto Baranzini
39. William Stanley Jevons (1835-1882)
John Creedy
40. Adolph Heinrich Gotthilf Wagner (1834-1917)
Rudolf Dujmovits and Richard Sturn
41. Gustav Friedrich von Schmoller (1838-1917)
Johannes Glaeser
42. Henry Sidgwick (1838-1900)
Keith Tribe
43. Carl Menger (1840-1921)
Gilles Campagnolo
44. Alfred Marshall (1842-1924)
Tiziano Raffaelli
45. Philip Henry Wicksteed (1844-1927)
John Creedy
46. Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (1845-1926)
John Creedy
47. John Bates Clark (1847-1938)
Marlies Hanna Schütz
48. Vilfedo Pareto (1848-1923)
Michael McLure
49. Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk (1851-1914)
Carl Christian von Weizsäcker
50. Knut Wicksell (1851-1926)
Hans-Michael Trautwein
51. Friedrich von Wieser (1851-1926)
Richard Sturn
52. Maffeo Pantaleoni (1857-1924)
Marco Dardi
53. Thorstein Bunde Veblen (1857-1929)
Alfonso Giuliani
54. Antonio De Viti de Marco (1858-1943)
Amedeo Fossati
55. John Atkinson Hobson (1858-1940)
Michael Schneider
56. Georg Simmel (1858-1918)
Dieter Bögenhold
57. Enrico Barone (1859-1924)
Marco Dardi
58. Max Weber (1864-1920)
Keith Tribe
59. Mikhail Ivanovich Tugan-Baranovsky (1865-1919)
Vladimir Avtonomov and Natalia Makasheva
60. Gustav Cassel (1866-1945)
Hans-Michael Trautwein
61. Irving Fisher (1867-1947)
Harald Hagemann
62. Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz (1868-1931)
Christian Gehrke and Heinz D. Kurz
63. Vladimir Karpovich Dmitriev (1868-1913)
Christian Gehrke
64. Louis Bachelier (1870-1946)
Alain Béraud
65. Arthur Spiethoff (1873-1957)
David Haas
66. Albert Aftalion (1874-1956)
Muriel Dal Pont-Legrand
67. Wesley Clair Mitchell (1874-1948)
Malcolm Rutherford
68. Edwin Walter Kemmerer (1875-1945)
Rebeca Gómez Betancourt
69. Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877-1959)
Hansjörg Klausinger
70. Ralph George Hawtrey (1879-1975)
Jérôme de Boyer des Roches
71. Evgeni Evgenievich Slutsky (1880-1948)
Irina Eliseeva
72. Ludwig Heinrich von Mises (1881-1973)
Richard Sturn
73. John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946)
Victoria Chick and Jesper Jespersen
74. Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883-1950)
Richard Sturn
75. Frank H. Knight (1885-1972)
Ross B. Emmett
76. Karl Polanyi (1886-1964)
Peter Kalmbach
77. Walter Eucken (1891-1950)
Hauke Janssen
78. Erik Lindahl (1891-1960)
Christian Gehrke
79. Adolph Lowe (1893-1995)
Harald Hagemann
80. Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch (1895-1973)
Olav Bjerkholt
81. Jacob Marschak (1898-1977)
Harald Hagemann
82. Gunnar Myrdal (1898-1987)
Hans-Michael Trautwein
83. Lionel Charles Robbins (1898-1984)
Andreas Rainer
84. Piero Sraffa (1898-1983)
Heinz D. Kurz and Neri Salvadori
85. Edward H. Chamberlin (1899-1967)
Rodolfo Signorino
86. Friedrich August von Hayek (1899-1992)
Peter Boettke
87. Michał Kalecki (1899-1970)
Michaël Assous
88. Roy Forbes Harrod (1900-1978)
Michaël Assous
89. Abba Ptachya Lerner (1903-1982)
Volker Caspari
90. John von Neumann (1903-1957)
Manfred J. Holler
91. Frank Plumpton Ramsey (1903-1930)
K. Vela Velupillai and Ragupathy Venkatachalam
92. Joan Violet Robinson (1903-1983)
Harvey Gram
93. George Lennox Sharman Shackle (1903-1992)
Brian J. Loasby
94. Jan Tinbergen (1903-1994)
Mark Knell
95. John Richard Hicks (1904-1989)
Harald Hagemann
96. Oskar Ryszard Lange (1904-1965)
Michaël Assous
97. Richard Ferdinand Kahn (1905-1989)
Geoffrey C. Harcourt
98. Wassily W. Leontief (1905-1999)
Olav Bjerkholt
99. Heinrich von Stackelberg (1905-1946)
Ulrich Schwalbe
100. James Edward Meade (1907-1995)
Volker Caspari
101. Nicholas Kaldor (1908-1986)
John E. King
102. Ronald Harry Coase (1910-2013)
Élodie Bertrand
103. Richard Abel Musgrave (1910-2007)
Richard Sturn
104. Tibor Scitovsky (1910-2002)
Viviana Di Giovinazzo
105. Maurice Allais (1911-2010)
Alain Béraud
106. Milton Friedman (1912-2006)
Christian Philipp Schröder and Peter Spahn
107. Abram Bergson [Abram Burk] (1914-2003)
Antoinette Baujard
108. Paul Anthony Samuelson (1915-2009)
Carl Christian von Weizsäcker
109. Herbert Alexander Simon (1916-2001)
K. Vela Velupillai and Ying-Fang Kao
110. James Tobin (1918-2002)
Robert W. Dimand
111. James M. Buchanan (1919-2013)
Viktor Vanberg
112. Hyman Philip Minsky (1919-1996)
L. Randall Wray
113. Kenneth Joseph Arrow (1921)
Maurice Salles
114. Gérard Debreu (1921-2004)
Alan Kirman
115. Don Patinkin (1922-1995)
Goulven Rubin
116. Michio Morishima (1923-2004)
Toichiro Asada
117. Robert Merton Solow (1924)
Peter Kalmbach
118. John Forbes Nash (1928-2015)
Robert W. Diamand and Khalid Yahia
119. Robert Alexander Mundell (1932)
Oliver Sauter and Peter Spahn
120. Takashi Negishi (1933)
Toichiro Asada
121. Amartya Kumar Sen (1933)
Wulf Gaertner
122. Robert E. Lucas (1937)
Arash Molavi Vasséi snd Peter Spahn
123. George Akerlof (1940)
Olivier Favereau
124. Joseph Eugene Stiglitz (1943)
Max Gödl
125. Paul Robin Krugman (1953)
Max Gödl
Index