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Barnett Vincent (ed.). Routledge Handbook of the History of Global Economic Thought. Routledge,2015. — 359 p. 2015

The Routledge Handbook of the History of Global Economic Thought offers the first comprehensive overview of the long-run history of economic thought from a truly international perspective. Although globalization has facilitated the spread of ideas between nations, the history of economics has tended to be studied either thematically (by topic), in terms of different currents of thought, or individually (by economist). Work has been published in the past on the economic thought traditions of specific countries, but this pioneering volume is unique in offering a wide-ranging comparative account of the development of economic ideas and philosophies on the international stage. The volume brings together leading experts on the development of economic ideas from across the world in order to offer a truly international comparison of the economics within nation-states. Each author presents a long-term perspective on economics in their region, allowing global patterns in the progress of economic ideas over time to be identified. This rigorous, ambitious and highly scholarly volume will be of key interest to students, academics, policy professionals and to interested general readers across the globe.

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Contents
Contributors
1 Introduction
Vincent Barnett
This volume is devoted to documenting the development of economic thinking across the world and in all historical eras, partitioned on nation-state/geographical lines.
Nation-states and ‘national character'
'National traditions'
Language, culture and thought
The origins of political economy
Nations and spacial regions
Marx on globalization
Nation-states as historical constructs
References
Part I Europe
England
Roger Middleton*
‘English economics’, if it ever existed, is a wholly historical entity, albeit one for which some distinction might be claimed in the round and for which, at various points, the existence or otherwise of ‘English schools’ has been the subject of scholarly enquiry.
Cultural and business traditions
Development of economic ideas over the long term
The twentieth century
Recent advances and trends
The dissemination of national traditions overseas
Conclusion
References
3 Scotland
Alexander Dow and Sheila Dow
The history of Scottish economic thought holds a special place in the history of global economic thought since the central figure, Adam Smith, has been identified by many as the ‘father’ of modern economics.
Cultural and business traditions
The development of ideas over the long term
Institutions and approaches
Recent advances and trends
Conclusion
Bibliography
4 Ireland
Renee Prendergast
In 1977, J.K. Galbraith claimed that ‘all races produced notable economists except the Irish'.
The development of economic ideas over the long term
Modern economics
International influences
Conclusion
References
Italy
Pier Luigi Porta
Italy is the country where the civic tradition was born, although the term “civic” is preferably spelt “civil” in the Italian context.
Economic ideas over the long-term
The nineteenth and twentieth centuries
References
6 Greece
Michalis M. Psalidopoulos
After the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453, most Byzantine intellectuals, the bearers of Hellenic-Christian culture, emigrated to the West, mainly to Italy.
From independence in 1830 to 1920
From 1920 to 1974
From 1974 to today
References
Spain and Portugal
Jose Luis Cardoso and Luis Perdices de Blas
Spain and Portugal went from being two maritime, colonialpowers which carved up the newly discovered world through the treaty of Tordesillas in 1494, to being two member countries of the European Union from 1986 onwards.
The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
The eighteenth century
The nineteenth century
The twentieth century
References
8 Germany
From sciences of state to modern economics
Erik Grimmer-Solem
A good starting point for understanding the historical contours of German economic thought is the fact that Germany as a modern nation-state only came into being in 1871, so that much of the history of the German lands was defined by disunity and particularism.
The development of economic ideas
Recent advances and trends
Dissemination and reception overseas
Bibliography
9 Sweden
Lars Magnusson
Sweden is a thinly populated country in northern Europe, out-stretched with a concentration in its southern part up to its capital Stockholm, situated by the lake Malaren. Its political and economic history has largely been influenced by its position between Western and Eastern Europe, and its long coastline along the Baltic Sea.
The eighteenth century
The nineteenth century
The twentieth century
Bibliography
10 Russia and Ukraine
Franςois Allisson
Russia and Ukraine, although they are now politically independent of each other, share a long common history.
The Russian and Ukrainian economies
Before the nineteenth century: Kievian Rus', Muscovy and Petersburg
The nineteenth century: Imperial Russia
The USSR and beyond
Global influences and impacts
Bibliography
Part II The Americas
11 United States of America
J.E. King
In 2013 there were almost 317 million people living in the United States, or slightly less than 5 per cent of the world's population.
Economic thought in the long-term
Intermezzo: the Americanisation of economics
US economics in the age of neo-liberalism
Bibliography
12 Canada
Robin Neill
Canada is an independent political unit, or as independent as a small country can be in a post­modern, globalized world.
From the beginning
The recent period
The post-recent period
References
13 Mexico and Central America
Richard Weiner
Despite the fact that there are indigenous peoples in Mesoamerica today who contend that they are still resisting the European conquest, Mexico and Central America have had a long history of connections to the West.
The development of ideas over the long-term
The twentieth century
Recent advances and trends
Bibliography
14 The Caribbean
Mark Figueroa*
The island states and European/US-controlled territories, situated within (or contiguous with) the Caribbean Sea and the mainland units usually classified with them: Belize, Guyana, Guyane, and Suriname, constitute this region.
From mercantilism to the abolition of slavery
The twentieth century and the professionalization of economics
Particular Caribbean contributions
The contemporary scene
Bibliography
15 Spanish-speaking South America
Politicized economic thought
Veronica Montecinos
No comprehensive history of economic thought in Latin America exists, despite its long-term, weighty sway over the region's domestic and international affairs.
History
Regionalism
Catholic and technocratic approaches
Structuralism and dependency
Neo-liberalism
References
16 Brazil
A very big and complicated country
Patrice Franko
Brazilians have a habit of tacking do onto a word to signify its enormous size or importance.
Samba and seriousness
Economic ideas with a mixed/tropical flair
The end of ISI and inflation
From stabilization to inclusion
Bibliography
Part III The Middle East
17 Turkey and the Turkic linguistic zone
The case that doesn't quite fit
Eyup Ozveren
When one speaks of a linguistic zone, it is often assumed that the zone in question is likely to display a stronger unity than that of a mere cultural zone.
Development of economic ideas over the long-term
Convergence and divergence during the twentieth century and the further flow of ideas
References
18 Israel
Yuval Yonay and Arie Krampf
Unlike other new nations, Israel is a new society.
The Zionist movement
The national logic of collective settlements
National planning for a Jewish state
Ideologies and academics
Don Patinkin
The “Patinkin boys” and the Americanization of Israeli economics
From full employment to export-oriented development
The neo-liberal triumph
Bibliography
19 Arab-Islamic economics
S.M. Ghazanfar
The primary purpose of this chapter is to provide a survey of economic thought originating with some Arab-Islamic scholars whose writings extend over several (medieval) centuries.
Early Arab-Islamic economic thought
Dissemination of Arab-Islamic ideas overseas
Recent Islamic economics
Conclusion
References
20 Persia/Iran
Hamid Hosseini
While we can accurately regard modern economics as predominantly a Western social science, and cannot ignore the contributions of ancient Greeks to this science, we should by no means ignore the contributions of non-Western civilizations to this old branch of social thought.
Persian-speaking Iranians in medieval times
The main themes of medieval Persian economics
Influences outside Persia
The last century
References
21 North Africa
From boom to bust to revolution
Hamed El-Said
North Africa (NA) includes the six Arab states of Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia and Sudan. In recent years, NA has attracted a great deal of attention.
The Ottoman Empire
The rise and fall of socialism
The transition to neo-liberalism
The Arab Spring
Conclusion
References
Part IV Africa
22 West Africa
Gareth Austin and Gerardo Serra
Much has been written on economic values and attitudes in West Africa, from pre-colonial times to the present, as well as on the importance of Africa as a ‘testing ground' and site of discovery in the history of economic theory and the social sciences (Collier, 1993; Rimmer, 2000; Sichone, 2003).
Economic culture and policies in the pre-colonial nineteenth century
Pan-African and nationalist economic thought during the colonial era
Leaders at independence: Kwame Nkrumah and his contemporaries
Development/professionalisation of economics in West Africa
Intellectual change from Left and Right, 1970s∕early 1980s
Against and beyond Structural Adjustment
Putting indigenous culture and institutions to work
Conclusion
References
23 Southern Africa
Tidings P. Ndhlovu and Nene Ernest Khalema
The mercantile and colonial periods, including the post-1885 ‘Scramble for Africa', witnessed raging debates about whether European colonialists were agents of change who had a mission to civilise and modernise the ‘Dark Continent'.
An overview of the long-term
The twentieth century
Indigenous economic systems: thought and practice
Conclusion
References
24 Angola and Mozambique Marxist or market?
Steven Kyle
Many of the most important differences and similarities between Angola and Mozambique predate the arrival of the Portuguese in the fifteenth century.
Marxist economics in Africa
A vacuum of ideas - economic thinking in the early post-colonial era
Portuguese land law and reform
Mineral wealth and Marx - is there any detectable difference?
Marketing, distribution, and agricultural extension
Conclusion
References
Part V The Asia-Pacific region
25 Australia and New Zealand A young tree dead?*
William Coleman
The history of the economics of Australia and New Zealand will be, at bottom, an account of that economics’ confrontation of its marginality.
The cultural and economic context
The development of economic ideas over the long-term
The inter-war period
The post-war period
Why this weakness?
Recent trends in economics
Does it matter?
References
26 China
2,500 years of economic thought
Zagros Madjd-Sadjadi
There is a strong Eurocentric belief that Western civilisation represents the pinnacle of success that all other cultures ought to emulate.
Cultural and business traditions
Economic ideas over the long-term
Recent advances and trends in economics
Dissemination of national traditions overseas
Bibliography
27 Southeast Asia
Indonesia and Malaysia
Cassey Lee and Thee Kian Wie
The early history of “classical” development economics is closely intertwined with the experi­ences of developing countries during the period from the 1940s to the 1960s.
Brief background
Pre-independence economic thought
Early post-independence contributions: 1950s∕1960s
Oil boom years and economic reforms: 1970s∕1980s
The Asian financial crisis and regional integration: 1990s∕2000s
Conclusion
Bibliography
28 The Asian Tigers
Takashi Kanatsu
The Asian Tigers refer to the following four economies: Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan, which showed remarkable economic development from the 1960s to the 1990s.
Developmental state theory
Industrialisation strategy
Hong Kong and Singapore
Taiwan
South Korea
Bibliography
29 India
Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran
As human civilization evolved and developed a workable theory of the nation-state, economic thought gradually became more distinct from other subjects.
Ancient economic thought
The nineteenth century
The early twentieth century
Keynes and Indian currency
After independence
Conclusion
References
30 Conclusion
Vincent Barnett
What can be concluded from the rich tapestry of economics within nation-state boundaries that has been documented above?
References
Author index
Place index

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