Eliot Janeway Lectures on Historical Economics

An Economic Spurt that Failed: Four Lectures in Austrian History Alexander Gerschenkron

In 1900 the newly appointed Austrian prime minister, Ernest von Koerber, initiated a novel program of economic development designed to solve the political and economic problems of the Habsburg Monarchy. Ambitious and ingenious as the...

The New Economics One Decade Older James Tobin

Challenging such established ideas as the inevitability of the business cycle and the taboo on deficit spending, the group of economists associated with the Kennedy Council of Economic Advisers attempted in the 1960s to convert their...

The Evolution of the International Economic Order William Arthur Lewis

Do rich industrial nations underestimate the threat to their economic stability posed by demands for a new international economic order? Are the developing countries wrong to assume that their economic advancement depends on a transfer...

Shifting Involvements: Private Interest and Public Action - Twentieth-Anniversary Edition Albert O. Hirschman

Why does society oscillate between intense interest in public issues and almost total concentration on private goals? In this classic work, Albert O. Hirschman offers a stimulating social, political, and economic analysis dealing with...