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Steven G. Medema

George Family Research Professor
Economics
Box 90097, Durham, NC 27708
07D Social Sciences Bldg., Box 90097, Durham, NC 27708

Scholarly Works - Books


FOUNDATIONS OF THE AMERICAN ECONOMY: THE AMERICAN COLONIES FROM INCEPTION TO INDEPENDENCE: VOLUME II

Book · January 1, 2024 This collection brings together a comprehensive selection of documents from the history of US and Canadian economic thought from the seventeenth century through to 1900. ... Full text Cite

FOUNDATIONS OF THE AMERICAN ECONOMY: THE AMERICAN COLONIES FROM INCEPTION TO INDEPENDENCE: VOLUME I: From Theocracy to Secular, Materialist Commercial Society

Book · January 1, 2024 This collection brings together a comprehensive selection of documents from the history of US and Canadian economic thought from the seventeenth century through to 1900. ... Full text Cite

FOUNDATIONS OF THE AMERICAN ECONOMY: THE AMERICAN COLONIES FROM INCEPTION TO INDEPENDENCE: VOLUME IV Mercantilism and Colonialism, Part I

Book · January 1, 2024 This collection brings together a comprehensive selection of documents from the history of US and Canadian economic thought from the seventeenth century through to 1900. ... Full text Cite

FOUNDATIONS OF THE AMERICAN ECONOMY: THE AMERICAN COLONIES FROM INCEPTION TO INDEPENDENCE: VOLUME III: Colonial Money, Credit and Debt

Book · January 1, 2024 This collection brings together a comprehensive selection of documents from the history of US and Canadian economic thought from the seventeenth century through to 1900. ... Full text Cite

THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE AMERICAN ECONOMY: THE AMERICAN COLONIES FROM INCEPTION TO INDEPENDENCE, VOLUME V

Book · January 1, 2024 This collection brings together a comprehensive selection of documents from the history of US and Canadian economic thought from the seventeenth century through to 1900. ... Full text Cite

Introduction

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ECONOMICS AND THE LAW, SECOND EDITION: FROM POSNER TO POSTMODERNISM AND BEYOND

Book · January 1, 2020 This is an expanded second edition of Nicholas Mercuro and Steven Medema’s influential book Economics and the Law, whose publication in 1998 marked the most comprehensive overview of the various schools of thought in the burgeoning field of Law and Economi ... Cite

Gardiner C. Means: Institutionalist and post Keynesian

Book · January 1, 2019 Gardiner Means has a secure place in the history of 20th century economic thought, as the co-author with A.A.Berle of “The Modern Corporation and Private Property”. But according to Samuels and Medema, Means should be remembered for major contributions in ... Full text Cite

Jacob Viner: Lectures in economics 301

Book · January 1, 2017 This book presents, for the first time, a detailed transcription of Jacob Viner’s Economics 301 class as taught in 1930. These lecture notes provide insight into the legacy of Jacob Viner, whose seminal contributions to fields such as international economi ... Full text Cite

The "subtle processes of economic reasoning": Marshall, becker, and Theorizing about economic Man and other-regarding behavior

Book · January 1, 2015 The question of whether, and to what extent, Chicago price theory is Marshallian is a large one, with many aspects. The theory of individual behavior is one of these, and the treatment of altruism, or, more generally, other-regarding behavior, falls within ... Full text Cite

Paul Samuelson on the history of economic analysis: Selected essays

Book · January 1, 2014 As one of the most famous economists of the twentieth century, Paul Anthony Samuelson revolutionized many branches of economic theory. As a diligent student of his predecessors, he reconstructed their economic analyses in the mathematical idiom he pioneere ... Cite

The history of economic thought: A reader, second edition

Book · January 1, 2013 From the ancients to the moderns, questions of economic theory and policy have been an important part of intellectual and public debate, engaging the attention of some of history's greatest minds. This book brings together readings from more than two thous ... Full text Cite

The hesitant hand: Taming self-interest in the history of economic ideas

Book · July 6, 2009 Here Christina Wolbrecht boldly demonstrates how the Republican and Democratic parties have helped transform, and have been transformed by, American public debate and policy on women's rights. She begins by showing the evolution of the positions of both pa ... Cite

The hesitant hand: Taming self-interest in the history of economic ideas

Book · July 6, 2009 Adam Smith turned economic theory on its head in 1776 when he declared that the pursuit of self-interest mediated by the market itself--not by government--led, via an invisible hand, to the greatest possible welfare for society as a whole.The Hesitant Hand ... Cite