Although no less an authority than Joseph A. Schumpeter proclaimed that Antonio Serra was the world's first economist, he remains something of a dark horse of e

In this book some of the world's leading economists and experts on Serra explore the enduring appeal of his 1613 Breve trattato.

The world that created modern industry, pioneered in the West, is in decline. It is being transformed by a global green shift, creating new industries based on

In the seventeenth century, English economic theorists lost interest in the moral status of exchange and became increasingly concerned with the roots of nationa

This book contains commentaries from the series "Klassiker der Nationalökonomie" (classics of economics), which have been translated into English for the first