(Hardback)

This volume introduces two very early, unique and hitherto largely unknown contributions to the making of modern economic knowledge, commonly known as the 'Mandeville Paradox' and 'mercantilism / industrial policy / mission oriented policy' for the first time in English.

(Hardback)

Jean Lescures General and Periodic Crises of Overproduction is a pioneeringstudy of the causes and consequences of industrial crises in capitalisteconomies in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It was updatedperiodically through five editions, and now appears in English for the firsttime.