Gold Prices and Wages (Routledge Revivals)
Gold Prices and Wages (Routledge Revivals)

Author: J. A. Hobson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-07-02

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 1136921842

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First published in 1913, this Routledge Revivals title reissues J. A. Hobson’s seminal analysis of the causal link between the rise in gold prices and the increase in wages and consumer buying power in the early years of the Twentieth Century. Contrary to the assertions of some notable contemporary economists and businessmen, Hobson contended that the relationship between gold prices and wages (and the resulting social unrest across much of Europe) was in fact much more complex than it initially appeared and that there were significantly more important factors in the rise of contemporary wealth, such as the rapid enlargement of state enterprise and joint stock companies; a wide extension of banking and general financial apparatus; and the opening of profitable fields of investment for the development of underdeveloped countries, which helped raise the rate of interest and profits.

Reappraising J. A. Hobson (Routledge Revivals)
Reappraising J. A. Hobson (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Michael Freeden

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-09-10

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 1135191549

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J. A. Hobson was one of the most influential social, economic and political theorists of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain. In this volume, first published in 1990, eight scholars reassess the importance and relevance of his work today and affirm him as a major British thinker. These original studies place Hobson in context by explaining his intellectual antecedents: Cobden, Ruskin, nineteenth-century social and psychological theories and economic thought. The book provides an overview of the novelty and incisiveness of Hobson's contribution to British liberal theory and radical practice. Historians, economists, social and political theorists and students of international affairs will find this an important book for a fuller understanding of early twentieth-century British progressive thought.

A Perspective of Wages and Prices (Routledge Revivals)
A Perspective of Wages and Prices (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Henry Phelps Brown

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-06-17

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1136310193

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First published in book form in 1981, this collection of essays originally written between 1955 and 1966 contains ground-breaking research and analysis on the study of wages and prices across seven centuries, with particular reference to builder’s wage rates and the price of a bundle of the commodities on which these wages might be spent. These seminal contributions to the economics of labour and economic growth did much to fuel the debate surrounding the problems of inflation, stability and changes in the purchasing power of money upon the book’s initial publication. These concerns are every bit as relevant in today’s post credit-crunch society and this reissue will be welcomed by all students of economic history and labour economics.

Growth and Fluctuations 1870-1913 (Routledge Revivals)
Growth and Fluctuations 1870-1913 (Routledge Revivals)

Author: W. Arthur Lewis

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-10-15

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 1135229902

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In this title, first published in 1978, Sir Arthur Lewis considers the development of the international economy in the forty years leading up to the First World War, with the adoption of the gold standard, a rapid growth in world trade, the opening up of the continents by the railways, vast emigration from Europe, India and China, and large-scale international investment. The book contrasts the relationship between prices, industrial fluctuations, agricultural output, and the stock of monetary gold, considering both the varying patterns of leading economies and then their net combined effect on the rest of the world. This is history which illuminates the contemporary economic climate in which it was written but also casts light upon our current economic crisis.

Lectures on Political Economy (Routledge Revivals)
Lectures on Political Economy (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Knut Wicksell

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-04-13

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1136857354

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First published in English in 1935, this Routledge Revival is a reissue of Volume II of Knut Wicksell's Lectures on Political Economy. This volume deals with his contribution to macroeconomics, through an explication of economic theory and principle relating specifically to money, both in terms of functions and value, with a particular emphasis upon currency and credit. This volume also includes Wicksell's work on the quantity theory of money in which he first made the important distinction between the real rate of return on new capital (which he called the "natural rate of interest") and the actual market rate of interest.

Knut Wicksell
Knut Wicksell

Author: Bo Sandelin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-06-17

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 1135748918

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This book, along with its predecessor, makes most of Wicksell's most important contributions accessible to English speaking readers for the first time. The essays collected here, first published in 1999, focus on money and price theory and include Wicksell's book reviews of Leon Walrus, Ludwig von Mises and John Bates Clark.

Unequal Treatment (Routledge Revivals)
Unequal Treatment (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Mats Lundahl

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-05-08

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 1317593634

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This book, written by two leading Swedish economists and first published in 1984, constitutes a threefold contribution to the expanding field of economic discrimination. In the first place, it summarizes different approaches to the economics of discrimination, from the beginning of the British debate on equal pay in the 1890s onwards. Secondly, the book contains analytical chapters that, taking the theory originated by Gary Becker as their point of departure, critique and develop the Beckerian theory in a number of ways; in particular, the phenomenon known as crowding is investigated in different models. Finally, the theories thus developed are applied to a concrete case of discrimination: that of apartheid in South Africa. This is a fascinating title that will be of value to any economics students researching the development of discrimination theory during the twentieth century in particular.

Monetary Reform in Theory and Practice (Routledge Revivals)
Monetary Reform in Theory and Practice (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Paul Einzig

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-07-16

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1136692835

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First published in 1936, this book gives the reader an insight into the tendencies and spirit of the monetary reform movement as a whole, as accomplished or proposed since the First World War. The author marks the consideration of the overall reform as being more important than specifically looking at the actual proposals and measures involved, and the views he attributes to the various monetary reform schools are therefore composite views of the various factions of those schools. As a comparatively recent convert to the idea of monetary reform, at the time of writing, the author offers a balanced view of the subject as he also has extensive experience of the ideas of the orthodox monetary system. However, he does not believe that monetary reform alone can achieve the desired end without considerable economic planning. Indeed, he suggests that the monetary reform movement he discusses desperately needs to adopt a broader perspective and thus, he suggests a compromise.

The Tragedy of the Pound (Routledge Revivals)
The Tragedy of the Pound (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Paul Einzig

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-11-05

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 1136693394

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First published in 1932, this book discusses the suspension of the gold standard in Britain, and the economic events surrounding September 1931. It argues that despite specific errors made by individuals, groups, and individual nations, the attempts to save the pound had little chance of recovery. Indeed, years before its collapse, powerful, fundamental factors had been eroding its stability. Hence, the author does not entirely blame the influence of French policy, or Great Britain’s political and economic decline after the war, but states that the collapse of sterling was co-ordinated by several factors of importance.

Capital, Inflation and the Multinationals (Routledge Revivals)
Capital, Inflation and the Multinationals (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Charles Levinson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-08

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 1134099193

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Inflation is the economic plague of the modern world, completely undermining conventional theory and policies for its containment, and setting governments, management and labour on a dangerous collision course. Its alarming spread is only paralleled by the expansion of multinational corporations, some of them more economically powerful than nation states. This book, first published in 1971, provided a totally new perspective on these phenomena, linking them in a common theory based on a thorough analysis of the modern role of capital financing in the global economy. It demonstrates the impact of technology on self-financing growth and explains why inflation can never ben stemmed by attacks on wage costs when the source lies in the need of managements to maximise cash flows. Alternative economic policies are discussed, including proposals for creating assets for workers in the self-financing investment. Charles Levinson draws together the strands of his subject in a way which is comprehensive and rigorous, yet easily accessible to the more general reader. The conclusions reached in Capital Inflation and the Multinationals are still of great interest and relevance to professional economists and students, political practitioners and commentators.