
Biographical Dictionary of European Economists
Continuum Publishing Corporation
Book
Hardback
800 pages
978-0-8264-2875-2 (ISBN)
Description
This two volume dictionary in Continuum's acclaimed reference series includes substantive entries on the lives and works of 500 figures, from ancient times to the present, who have professionally worked in, and theorized about, "the dismal science." In truth, economics could hardly be categorized as such. Among the countries of continental Europe represented are Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Spain, and Sweden. Along with the two general editors and more than 100 contributors, an international board of 20 economists and theorists have teamed up in the selection, translation, and editing. Among the figures included are Aristotle, A. Oikonomos, St. Thomas Aquinas, Jean-Baptiste Say, Karl Marx, Carl Menger, Dag Hammarskjoeld, Oskar R. Lange, and hundreds more.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8264-2875-2 (9780826428752)
DOI
CBID131018
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Persons
Christian Gehrke is an associate professor at the University of Graz, Austria. His main research interestes are in the area of production-and-distribution theory, technical change, and the history of economic thought. He has published in Economica, Economic Economy, Metroamerica, Review of Political Economy, and the Scottish Journal of Political Economy. He is currently chairman of the Graz Schumpeter Society and serves on the editorial boards of Metroamerica, Review of Political Economy, and the European Journal of the History of Economic Thought. Heinz D. Kurz professor of economics in the department of economics, University of Graz, Austria, and director of the Graz Schumpeter Centre. His main research interests are in production-and-distribution theory, capital theory, growth theory, adn the history of economic thought. He has published more than 100 papers in professional journals and is the editor or author of some 20 books, including Theory of Production. He is a managing editor of Metroamerica and of the European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, as well as an editorial-board member of several other professional journals. He is the general editor of The Unpublished Writings of Piero Sraffa. Kurz is currently prsident of the History of Economic Thought Committee in the Verein fuer Socioalpolitik (Assocation of German-speaking Economists) and president of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought.
Content
500 biographical entries, many already underway. Bibliographies. Index.