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The Collected Writings of Warren J. Samuels
This handsome set makes available for the first time the complete writings of Warren J. Samuels, one of the most influential figures in the study of the economic role of government, the history of economic thought, and the conceptual and sociological origins of modern economics. Included in the set are:ESSAYS IN THE ECONOMIC ROLE OF GOVERNMENT: FUNDAMENTALS Volume 1 (368 pages) ESSAYS IN THE ECONOMIC ROLE OF GOVERNMENT: APPLICATIONS Volume 2 (392 pages) ESSAYS IN THE HISTORY OF MAINSTREAM POLITICAL ECONOMY (312 pages) ESSAYS IN THE HISTORY OF HETERODOX POLITICAL ECONOMY (368 pages) andESSAYS IN THE METHODOLOGY AND DISCOURSE OF ECONOMICS (352 pages).
Economics Broadly Considered
Warren J. Samuels has been a prominent figure in the study of economics in the twentieth century. This book brings together essays by leading scholars in the areas of economics in which Samuels has made his most important contributions: the history of economic thought, economic methodology, and institutional and post-Keynesian economics. This work
Essays on the Methodology and Discourse of Economics
Contains a collection of articles on economics as a system of discourse and on certain epistemological problems of economics. The treatment of both topics centres on the role of often implicit assumptions as to whose interests count in reaching conclusions especially as to policy.
Essays in the History of Mainstream Political Economy
This book is a collection of articles on schools, individuals and topics within the mainstream of the history of economic thought. The principal schools are the Physiocrats and the English Classical Economists. The principal individuals are Francois Quesnay, Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus, Francis Y. Edgeworth, Friedrich von Wieser, Frank W. Taussig, and William H. Hutt. The principal topics include the economic role of government, power, the psychology of economics, and the early history of macroeconomics.
Pareto on Policy
Warren Samuels interprets Vilfredo Pareto's Treatise on General Sociology in terms of a general equilibrium model of policy. Three themes and one conviction run throughout the study. The first is a model of policy making involving three sets of variables: power, knowledge, and psychology. The second is a general equilibrium approach to the study of these variables emphasizing their fundamental interdependence. The third is the importance of Pareto's work.Pareto is one of the few individuals whose work has had enormous influence in at least three social sciences in the twentieth century: economics, sociology, and political science. Despite Pareto's attempt in the Treatise to produce a general...
The Legal-Economic Nexus
Providing another key contribution to the immensely popular field of law and economics, this book, written by the doyen of the history of economic thought in the US, explores the dynamic relationship between economics, law and polity.Combining a selection of old and new essays by Warren J. Samuels that chart a number of key themes, it provides an i
Economics As Discourse
1 Warren J. Samuels The study of economics as discourse requires a perspective that focuses on the relationships among knowledge (or truth), discourse (or lan guage), and meaning. Central to this task is the recognition that the con duct of economic analysis uses words and that words embody meanings that are applied to the object of study, but do not necessarily derive from that object although they define that object for us. Knowledge Economists are engaged in efforts to understand and explain the econ omy. In the pursuit of this knowledge they have attempted to make coherent the respect(s) in which belief is to be accepted as knowledge, or the sense(s) in which this knowledge has the quali...
Essays on the Economic Role of Government
Contains a collection of articles applying fundamental concepts of power, property, regulation and the compensation principle to contemporary topics: the wealth maximization hypothesis, the Coase theorem, public utility regulation, and other topics in law and economics.
Essays on the History of Economics
Under the impressive editorship of Warren Samuels et al, this book addresses the state of the history of economic thought today. A relevant and important contribution to economics that will develop an unsurprising number of fans.
Essays in the History of Heterodox Political Economy
A collection of articles on topics and individuals within the history of heterodox economic thought, approached from a heterodox perspective. The individuals whose work is singled out include Edward Bellamy, Thorstein Veblen, Edwin E. Witte, Robert Lee Hale and Joan Robinson.
