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Heinz D. Kurz traza una ruta que parte del surgimiento de la economía en la antigua Grecia hasta los avances más recientes como la teoría de juegos. Inicia desde los antiguos, los escolásticos y los mercantilistas; examina el pensamiento clásico, la obra de Marx y las ideas socialistas; logra hilar el desarrollo de las ideas vinculadas con el marginalismo y la teoría del equilibrio social; pone en debate los argumentos del utilitarismo y la teoría de bienestar, y explora el trabajo de economistas eruditos como Adam Smith, Joseph A. Schumpeter, François Quesnay, Kenneth Arrow, Alfred Marshall, Paul Samuelson, John M. Keynes, entre otros. Con una visión crítica, el autor muestra cómo las ideas conocidas y asimiladas a través del tiempo adquieren un nuevo significado cuando su estudio se profundiza en un contexto actual y diferente. Adicionalmente, esta edición cuenta con un capítulo escrito por el economista mexicano Ignacio Perrotini Hernández, sobre el pensamiento económico en América Latina.

Drawing in particular on the work of Sraffa, Smith, Ricardo and Marx, the essays in this volume explore the characteristic features of the Classical economists'approach to economic problems, and the renewal of interest in that approach in modern times.In recent years, new material has been made available on both Sraffa and Marx which have made new insights and interpretations possible. The release of Sraffa's hitherto unpublished papers and correspondence has led to reconsideration of doctrinal questions such as to what extent Sraffa built upon, or deviated from the analyses of Adam Smith, David Ricardo and other representatives of the classical British school and Karl Marx. A major theme is also to what extent we can today, equipped with Sraffa's insights and analytical tools, re-interpret and develop ideas of classical authors, which they could present only in primitive forms, on technological progress, exhaustible resources and other contemporary issues. On Marx, the publication of the MEGA2 edition of the works, papers and correspondence of Marx and Engels also gives rise to a reconsideration of this relationship, given Marx's disenchantment with some of his own work and return to ideas advocated by Ricardo, especially as regards the long-term tendency of the rate of profits. Finally, the classical notion of competition and monopoly deserve to be scrutinized carefully again and frequent misinterpretations in the literature refuted.This volume is vital reading for scholars of classical economics, Marx and Sraffa, and the history of economic thought more broadly. It also deals with issues in the areas of machinery and technical progress, joint production, and economic development and growth.

This book brings together leading scholars of the history of economic thought to demonstrate the vitality and richness of a discipline that welcomes both practitioners of intellectual, contextual history, as well as specialists in the historical explanation of the analytical and theoretical dimension of economic science. They shed new light on a variety of themes and problems and move the frontier of knowledge in the areas covered.Economic Analyses in Historical Perspective is presented in three parts. The first deals with French traditions in economics, a field that Gilbert Faccarello has tilled for many years and to which he has made numerous contributions. The second turns to the dissemination and diffusion of economic ideas and theories across national borders, and thus to the European and even global level. Finally, the third part deals with analytical developments in some selected fields of economics: public economics, monetary policy, trade theory and spatial economics. This volume is of great importance to those who study history of economic thought, political economy and monetary economics. The chapters'centre around the work of Gilbert Faccarello, making this book a fitting tribute to his academic career on the history of economic theory and ideas.

In this concise yet comprehensive history, Heinz D. Kurz traces the long arc of economic thought from its emergence in ancient Greece to its systematic presentation among the classical thinkers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to the influential work of scholars such as Paul Samuelson and Kenneth J. Arrow. With a keen eye for how economic insights are acquired, lost, and reborn, Kurz focuses on the dynamic individuals who give old ideas new life and the historical events that provoke different approaches and theories. Over the course of this journey, Kurz explains what Adam Smith meant by the'invisible hand'; how Karl Marx's'law of motion'works in capitalist economies; the roots of the Austrian economists'emphasis on the problems of information, incomplete knowledge, and uncertainty; John Maynard Keynes's principle of effective demand and economic stabilization; and the insights and challenges offered by growth theory, welfare economics, game theory, and more. He concludes with a deft summation of world economists'major concerns today and their critical relation to world events.

Die alte Frage, um welche Art von Wissenschaft es sich bei der Ökonomik handelt, um eine Natur- oder eine Geisteswissenschaft, ist im Jahr 2009 durch einander widersprechende Aufrufe von Vertretern des Faches Volkswirtschaftslehre in deutschen Tageszeitungen wieder aufgebrochen. Tatsächlich schwelt die Frage seit geraumer Zeit im Fach und wird nach Gang der Dinge unterschiedlich beantwortet. Der Band befasst sich in systematischer Weise mit der als »Methodenstreit« bekannten Debatte von ihren Anfängen bis in die Gegenwart. Er zeigt, dass längst bekannte und als unhaltbar ausgewiesene Argumente immer wiederkehren – als Ausdruck der zunehmenden Geschichtsvergessenheit des Faches. Kann man auf der Grundlage stark realitätsferner Annahmen zu brauchbaren Aussagen über die Wirklichkeit kommen? Sind Modelle nicht immer unterkomplex und in Gefahr, den Blick auf die Wirklichkeit zu verstellen, statt ihn zu schärfen? Ist in einem Fach, das mit einem derart schwierigen Gegenstand befasst ist wie die Ökonomik, ein methodischer Monismus angebracht? Oder bedeutet er nicht vielmehr die Anmaßung von Wissen, wo kein gesichertes Wissen verfügbar ist? Setzt Fortschritt im Fach nicht Pluralität der Herangehensweisen voraus?

Ökonomen verstehen ihr Fach gerne als «normale» Wissenschaft, die alle Ideen bewahrt, die richtig und wahr sind, und alle ausmustert, die falsch und irreführend sind. Doch auch Ökonomen irren sich – nicht selten, und dann oft mit gewaltigen wirtschaftlichen und politischen Folgen. Heinz D. Kurz bietet in diesem Band nicht nur einen knappen, verständlichen Zugang zur Geschichte des ökonomischen Denkens, sondern er stellt auch, angefangen mit der Antike, Querverbindungen über die Epochen hinweg her, welche die Relevanz der Ökonomik illustrieren und vergegenwärtigen.

This book deals with the prime movers of socio-economic development, innovations and technical change, their origins, forms and effects. It contains a set of closely related chapters, some of which have been previously published as papers in scholarly journals

This highly illuminating book marks a significant stage in our growing understanding of how the development of national traditions of economic thought has been affected by both internal and external factors. The expert contributors set an explicit agenda for the study of the dissemination of economic ideas across four centuries, acknowledging that the history of dissemination is also a history of the flux of economic beliefs, rendering any generalization difficult, if not impossible. Topics explored include systems of political economy, European and American interactions, the diffusion of economic ideas in South-Eastern Europe and beyond, and the exchange of ideas between Japan and the rest of the world. This book will prove a fascinating and stimulating read for scholars and researchers in the field of economics generally, and more specifically in heterodox economics, the history of economic thought and economic theory.

Von Adam Smith bis hin zu herausragenden Ökonomen des 20.Jahrhunderts wie Amartya Sen bietet diese zweibändige Ausgabe zugänglich und prägnant geschriebene Einführungen in Leben, Werk und Wirkung der Klassiker der modernen ökonomischen Lehre. Die Beiträge sind von renommierten Hochschullehrern der Volkswirtschaft verfaßt und erläutern nicht nur das ökonomische Denken der jeweiligen Gelehrten, sondern auch die Wirkung individueller Werdegänge und gesellschaftsgeschichtlicher Hintergründe. Ausführliche Literaturhinweise auf dem neuesten wissenschaftlichen Stand erleichtern die weitergehende Beschäftigung. Band 2 John Bates Clark (Harald Hagemann) Vilfredo Pareto (Hans-Jürgen Wagener) Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk (Elisabeth Allgoewer) Knut Wicksell (Hans-Michael Trautwein) Thorstein Veblen (Reinhard Penz und Birger Priddat) Irving Fisher (Harald Hagemann) Arthur Cecil Pigou (Richard Sturn) Joseph A. Schumpeter (Stephan Böhm) John Maynard Keynes (Volker Caspari) Walter Eucken (Hauke Janssen) Piero Sraffa (Heinz D. Kurz) Friedrich August von Hayek (Stephan Böhm) John von Neumann und Oskar Morgenstern (Manfred J. Holler) Wassily Leontief (Christian Lager) Milton Friedman (Heinz-Peter Spahn) Paul Anthony Samuelson (Carl Christian von Weizsäcker) Kenneth Joseph Arrow (Martin Hellwig) Amartya Sen (Wulf Gaertner)

Von Adam Smith bis hin zu den herausragenden Ökonomen des 20. Jahrhunderts bietet diese zweibändige Ausgabe zugänglich und prägnant geschriebene Einführungen in Leben, Werk und Wirkung der Klassiker der modernen ökonomischen Lehre. Die Beiträge sind von renommierten Hochschullehrern der Volkswirtschaft verfasst und erläutern nicht nur das ökonomische Denken der jeweiligen Gelehrten, sondern auch die Wirkung individueller Werdegänge und gesellschaftsgeschichtlicher Hintergründe. Ausführliche Literaturhinweise auf dem neuesten wissenschaftlichen Stand erleichtern die weitergehende Beschäftigung. Band 1 William Petty (Heinz D. Kurz) Richard Cantillon (Rita Strohmaier) François Quesnay (Wolfgang Eichert) Adam Smith (Richard Sturn) Thomas Robert Malthus (Peter Kalmbach) Jean Baptiste Say (Jochen Schumann) David Ricardo (Heinz D. Kurz) Johann Heinrich von Thünen (Heinz D. Kurz) Friedrich List (Joachim Zweynert) John Stuart Mill (Michael S. Aßländer und Hans G. Nutzinger) Hermann Heinrich Gossen (Heinz D. Kurz) Karl Marx (Christian Gehrke) Léon Walras (Ulrich Schwalbe) William Stanley Jevons (Ulrich van Suntum) Gustav Schmoller (Nils Goldschmidt) Carl Menger (Karl Milford) Alfred Marshall (Volker Caspari)

Die Diffusion von ökonomischen Ideen und Theorien und damit deren Kontinuität und Wandel in Zeit und Raum sind Gegenstand des vorliegenden Bandes. Dieser enthält Beiträge zur 28. Jahrestagung des Dogmenhistorischen Ausschusses (jetzt: Ausschuss für die Geschichte der Wirtschaftswissenschaften). Behandelt werden das Adam-Smith-Problem betreffend das Verhältnis des Wealth of Nations zur Theory of Moral Sentiments sowie die deutsche Rezeption der Smithschen Werke. Weiterhin wird der Frage nachgegangen, welchen Einfluss Pierre-Joseph Proudhon auf die von Karl Marx in »Das Kapital« behandelten Themen und die Art ihrer Behandlung hatte. Die gegenseitige Beeinflussung von Ökonomen im baltischen Raum mit dem Hauptaugenmerk auf der wechselvollen Beziehung zwischen der deutschen und der schwedischen Wirtschaftswissenschaft im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert ist ein weiteres Thema des vorliegenden Bandes. Darüber hinaus widmen sich Beiträge den deutschsprachigen Einflüssen auf das russische ökonomische Denken in der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts, dem Werk des russischen Agrarökonomen Alexander W. Tschajanow und der Adoption bzw. Adaption von Ideen und Vorstellungen, mit denen russische Emigranten um die Wende vom 19. zum 20. Jahrhundert in Deutschland konfrontiert wurden. Der Band schließt mit der Rezeptionsgeschichte von Piero Sraffas Kritik an der Marshallschen Theorie des partiellen Gleichgewichts in der Mitte der 1920er Jahre im deutschen Sprachraum unter besonderer Berücksichtigung eines Beitrags von Oskar Morgenstern.

This collection brings together significant new contributions to the Sraffa--based theories of production and distribution, from post-Keynesian arguments concerning monetary and macro economics to the history of thought and methodology. All of the authors are well established authorities in their field, and in this book they add stimulating and original pieces of analysis to the contemporary literature.Production, Distribution and Trade is divided into three parts. The first explores analytical issues in production and exchange theory, the second examines Postkeynesian Macroeconomics and the final part includes essays on the history of economic thought and methodology. This collection has been written in honour of Sergio Parrinello and is a fitting tribute to his untiring efforts to stimulate discussion among Classicists, Marxists, Postkeynesians, and Evolutionists.The book is a clear and convincing attempt to prove that an alternative paradigm to mainstream economics is alive and thriving and to argue that these perspectives shed better light on current economic problems, both as diagnosis and in terms of policy conclusions. The book will be of interest to Economics postgraduate students and researchers working in the Classical and Postkeynesian tradition.

Ian Steedman is recognised internationally as one of the leading economic theorists of his time and has made major contributions to the development of economic theory and economic thought, as substantiated by his work on Marx, Sraffa, Marshall, Jevons and Wicksteed. His contributions to economic theory include his work on time, international trade, capital theory and growth and distribution. This collection reflects the wide ranging interests of Ian Steedman and is a tribute to his outstanding contributions.This edited collection brings together twenty two new essays by distinguished economists from around the world. The papers cover a wide range of topics including; international trade – an area in which Steedman has made significant contributions; Sraffa, the history of economic thought and theoretical papers – including Faustian Agents and market failure in waste production.The essays in this book will be an invaluable source for economists interested in economic theory or in the evolution of economic thought. It will also be of interest to postgraduate and research students in economic theory and the history of economic thought.John Vint is Professor of Economics at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. J. Stanley Metcalfe is Professor of Economics at the University of Manchester, UK. Heinz D. Kurz is Professor of Economics at the University of Graz, Austria. Neri Salvadori is Professor of Economics at the University of Pisa, Italy. Paul Samuelson is Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.

Few economists have been as prolific and wide-ranging as Takashi Negishi. Part of the'Hicksian'generation of Neo-Walrasian general equilibrium theorists, Negishi rose to prominence during the early 1960s with his work on the Neo-Walrasian system. Negishi's signature has been his attempt to extend the multi-market Neo-Walrasian system in several directions to incorporate concerns such as imperfect comptetition, stability, money, trade and unemployment - and, as a consequence, helping to discover and delineate the limits of conventional theory. This collection in honour of Takashi Negishi analyses his contributions to the history of economic theory. Economists paying tribute within this volume include Neri Salvadori, Laurence Moss, and Joaquim Silvestre.

In this thought-provoking book, well known economists Kurz and Salvadori cover original findings and new vistas on old problems. They cover: alternative interpretations of classical economists new growth theory the relationship between Sraffian theory and Von Neumann the treatment of capital in neoclassical long-period theory. Incorporating cutting-edge research and new work, this book will be of great interest to those working in the field of the history of economic thought.

This thought-provoking book discusses the concept of progress in economics and investigates whether any advance has been made in its different spheres of research. The authors look back at the history, successes and failures of their respective fields and thoroughly examine the notion of progress from an epistemological and methodological perspective. The idea of progress is particularly significant as the authors regard it as an essentially contested concept which can be defined in many ways - theoretically or empirically; locally or globally; or as encouraging or impeding the existence of other research traditions. The authors discuss the idea that for progress to make any sense there must be an accumulation of knowledge built up over time rather than the replacement of ideas by each successive generation. Accordingly, they are not concerned with estimating the price of progress, reminiscing in the past, or assessing what has been lost. Instead they apply the complex mechanisms and machinery of the discipline to sub-fields such as normative economics, monetary economics, trade and location theory, Austrian economics and classical economics to critically assess whether progress has been made in these areas of research.Bringing together authoritative and wide-ranging contributions by leading scholars, this book will challenge and engage those interested in philosophy, economic methodology and the history of economic thought. It will also appeal to economists in general who are interested in the advancement of their profession.