While work on economic methodology has increased this has been coupled with a lack of consensus about the direction and content of the discipline. This book reflects this growing diversity…

Interpreting Macroeconomics explores the different ways in which the history of macroeconomic thought can be written. Three historiographical chapters criticize both relativism and constructivism, arguing instead for an eclectic, pluralistic…

This book re-examines early twentieth-century British welfare economics in the context of the emergence of the welfare state. This book discusses the two competing approaches to welfare economics which are…

In this volume, contributors from a wide range of disciplines offer new interpretations of Keynes’s thought, explain the links between Keynes’s philosophy and his economics and place his work and…

The importance of language in economics has been neglected and dominated by techniques from other disciplines. This looks at the wider methodological implications of language within economics in a practical…

This book covers the main developments in the social sciences after World War Two. Chapters on economics, human geography, political science, psychology, social anthropology, and sociology will interest anyone wanting…