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10 results in Anthem Other Canon Economics

The Stakes of Regulation
  • Perspectives on 'Bread, Politics and Political Economy' Forty Years Later
  • Steven L. Kaplan
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    20 July 2018
    Print publication:
    15 August 2015
  • Scholars have long regarded 'Bread, Politics and Political Economy in the Reign of Louis XV' (1976) as marking an important moment in the study of the social, political and cultural history of eighteenth-century France. 'The Stakes of Regulation' is the companion volume to a new edition of this landmark study, revealing how Kaplan's thinking has evolved in reaction both to the changing intellectual, epistemological, historiographical and socio-political environment, and to the significant scholarship that has been accomplished during the past forty years. Kaplan remains faithful to his original premise: that the subsistence question is at the core of eighteenth century history, and that the issues joined by the struggle over liberalization continue to shape our destiny today through the bristling tension between liberty and equality, and the debate over the necessity, legitimacy and character of regulation.

Bread, Politics and Political Economy in the Reign of Louis XV
  • 2nd edition
  • Steven L. Kaplan, Sophus A. Reinert
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    05 December 2015
    Print publication:
    15 September 2015
  • A new edition of Kaplan's landmark study on eighteenth-century French political economy, reissued with a new Foreword by Sophus A. Reinert. Based on research in all the Parisian depots and more than fifty departmental archives and specialized and municipal libraries, Kaplan's classic work constitutes a major contribution to the study of the subsistence problem before the French Revolution and the political economy of deregulatory reform. Anthem Press is proud to reissued this pathbreaking work together with a significant new historiographic companion volume by the author, 'The Stakes of Regulation: Perspectives on 'Bread, Politics and Political Economy' Forty Years Later.'

The New Olive Branch (1820) and Selected Essays
  • Mathew Carey
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    05 November 2014
    Print publication:
    15 October 2014
  • Mathew Carey was one of the most popular and influential economic writers of his day, but his work has been largely overlooked by modern writers, who tend to focus on more scholarly writers or on precursors to contemporary classical economics. Carey was a self-taught printer and publisher who rejected Adam Smith, led the early fight for protective tariffs, and wrote hundreds of newspaper articles to convince the public of the need to protect American manufacturers. 'The New Olive Branch' is Carey's most important, accessible, and sustained elaboration of his political-economic ideas, and is accompanied in this volume by portions of his 'Addresses of the Philadelphia Society for the Promotion of National Industry' (1822), which offer further insight into his rejection of classical economics.

Economics of the 1%
  • How Mainstream Economics Serves the Rich, Obscures Reality and Distorts Policy
  • John Weeks
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    05 April 2014
    Print publication:
    20 January 2014
  • How much do economists really know? In most cases, they claim to have profound knowledge but in fact understand little and obscure almost everything. Most people are convinced that economics should be left to the 'experts', when they themselves are perfectly capable of understanding it. This book explains that mainstream economics serves the interests of the rich through its logical inconsistency and unabashedly reactionary conclusions. John F. Weeks exposes the myths of mainstream economics and explains in straightforward language why current policies fail to serve the vast majority of people in the United States, Europe and elsewhere. Their failure to serve the interests of the many results from their devoted service to the few.

Torkel Aschehoug and Norwegian Historical Economic Thought
  • Reconsidering a Forgotten Norwegian Pioneer Economist
  • Mathilde Fasting
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    05 March 2014
    Print publication:
    01 October 2013
  • The historical schools of economics have been neglected within the arena of economic theory since the Second World War in favour of the now-dominant classical and neoclassical schools of economic thought. As alternative frameworks re-emerge, this book offers a revaluation of the legal theorist, economist and politician Torkel Aschehoug (1822-1909) and his historical-empirical approach to economics, a highly influential current in Norway during the last decades of the nineteenth century.

Thorstein Veblen
  • Economics for an Age of Crises
  • Edited by Erik S. Reinert, Francesca Viano
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    05 May 2013
    Print publication:
    01 December 2012
  • After his death Thorstein Veblen was hailed as �America�s Darwin and Marx� and is normally portrayed as the perennial iconoclast. He severely criticised traditional economics and attempted to create an alternative approach based on a much more complex view of human beings. He is one of the most celebrated economists of our age and has been the inspiration for many books; the predatory version of capitalism we now again experience, the phenomenon of studying cultures of consumption and the darker sides of gilded ages can be traced back to Veblen. A conference in Veblen�s ancestral Norway marked the 150th anniversary of his birth. The aim of the conference was to consolidate Veblen scholarship and evaluate his relevance for the problems of today. This collection offers the results of that endeavour; it is a milestone of Vebleniana which assesses all the most salient aspects of his life and influence. Many of its contributors also push into uncharted territory, examining the man and his work from new and necessary perspectives hitherto ignored by scholarship.

Knowledge Governance
  • Reasserting the Public Interest
  • Edited by Leonardo Burlamaqui, Ana Célia Castro, Rainer Kattel
  • Foreword by Richard Nelson
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    05 April 2013
    Print publication:
    01 October 2012
  • This book argues that the current international intellectual property rights regime, led by the World Trade Organization (WTO), has evolved over the past three decades toward overemphasizing private interests and seriously hampering public interests in access to knowledge and innovation diffusion. This approach concentrates on tangible and codified knowledge creation and diffusion in research and development (R&D) that can be protected via patents and other intellectual property rules and regulations. In terms of global policy initiatives, however, it is becoming increasingly clear that the WTO in particular is mostly a conflict-resolution facility rather than a global governance body able to generate cooperation and steer international coordinated policy action. At the same time, rent extraction and profits streaming from legal hyperprotection have become pervasively important for firm strategies to compete in a globalized marketplace. “Knowledge Governance: Reasserting the Public Interest” offers a novel approach – knowledge governance – in order to move beyond the current regime.

The Politics of Enlightenment
  • Constitutionalism, Republicanism, and the Rights of Man in Gaetano Filangieri
  • Vincenzo Ferrone
  • Translated by Sophus Reinert
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    05 February 2013
    Print publication:
    15 September 2012
  • Written by one of Italy’s leading historians, this book analyses the context and legacy of Gaetano Filangieri’s seven-volume ‘Science of Legislation’. This study engages with the unique history of Enlightenment Naples, the intellectual traditions upon which Filangieri drew, and the powerful repercussions of the American Revolution in eighteenth-century Italy to re-draw the map of Enlightenment republicanism and the early history of human rights and their political economy.

Competitiveness and Development
  • Myth and Realities
  • Mehdi Shafaeddin
  • Foreword by Erik S. Reinert
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    05 February 2013
    Print publication:
    15 September 2012
  • In ‘Competitiveness and Development’, the author explains the confusion surrounding the concept of competitiveness in the context of developing countries; proposes policies for achieving competitiveness at a high level of development; examines its possibilities and constraints; and suggests policy changes necessary at the national and international levels. Shafaeddin illustrates how developed countries impose restrictive policies on developing countries through international financial institutions and the WTO, as well as regional and bilateral agreements, which limit their policy space for promoting dynamic comparative advantage in order to achieve competitiveness at a high level of development. Ultimately, such policies lock developing countries that are at early stages of development in specialization based on static comparative advantage and competitiveness at a low level of development.

Economists and the Powerful
  • Convenient Theories, Distorted Facts, Ample Rewards
  • Norbert Häring, Niall Douglas
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    05 February 2013
    Print publication:
    01 October 2012
  • “Economists and the Powerful: Convenient Theories, Distorted Facts, Ample Rewards” explores the workings of the modern global economy – an economy in which competition has been corrupted and power has a ubiquitous influence upon economic behavior. Based on empirical and theoretical studies by distinguished economists from both the past and present day, this book argues that the true workings of capitalism are very different from the popular myths voiced in mainstream economics. Offering a closer look at the history of economic doctrines – as well as how economists are incentivized – “Economists and the Powerful” exposes how, when and why the theme of power was erased from the radar screens of mainstream economic analysis – and the influence this subversive removal has had upon the modern financial world. [NP] For more information please see the book website: www.economistsandthepowerful.anthempressblog.com/