Contents

Contributors viii

1 Introduction 1

Vincent Barnett

PART I

Europe 15

2 England 17

Roger Middleton

3 Scotland 38

Alexander Dow and Sheila Dow

4 Ireland 48

Renee Prendergast

5 Italy 58

Pier Luigi Porta

6 Greece 68

Michalis M.

7 Spain and Portugal 77

Jose Luis Cardoso and Luis Perdices de Blas

8 Germany: from sciences of state to modern economics 86

Erik Grimmer-Solem

9 Sweden 95

Lars Magnusson

10 Russia and Ukraine 102

Francois Allisson

PART II

The Americas 111

11 United States of America 113

J.E. King

12 Canada 130

Robin Neill

13 Mexico and Central America 140

Richard Weiner

14 The Caribbean 149

Mark Figueroa

15 Spanish-speaking South America: politicized economic thought 158

Veronica Montecinos

16 Brazil: a very big and complicated country 167

Patrice Franko

PART III

The Middle East 177

17 Turkey and the Turkic linguistic zone: the case that doesn’t quite fit 179

Eγup Ozveren

18 Israel 189

Yuval Yonay and Arie Krampf

19 Arab-Islamic Economics 202

S.M. Ghazanfar

20 Persia/Iran 216

Hamid Hosseini

21 North Africa: from boom to bust to revolution 228

Hamed El-Said

PART IV

Africa 241

22 West Africa 243

Gareth Austin and Gerardo Serra

23 Southern Africa 257

Tidings P. Ndhlovu and Nene Ernest Khalema

24 Angola and Mozambique: Marxist or market? 269

Steven Kyle

PART V

The Asia-Pacific region 279

25 Australia and New Zealand: a young tree dead? 281

William Coleman

26 China: 2,500 years of economic thought 294

Zagros Madjd-Sadjadi

27 Southeast Asia: Indonesia and Malaysia 306

Cassey Lee and Thee Kian Wie

28 The Asian Tigers 315

Takashi Kanatsu

29 India 323

Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran

30 Conclusion 337

Vincent Barnett

Author index 341

Place index 346