Böcker av Bertram (Johann-Wolfgang Goethe University Schefold

Bertram Schefold is renowned for his distinctive approach to the history of economic thought. This book brings together commentaries from his series "Klassiker der Nationalökonomie" (Classics of Economics), which have been translated into English for the first time. Schefold¿s choice of authors for the series, which he has edited since 1991, and

Together with a companion volume Great Economic Thinkers from Antiquity to the Historical School: Translations from the series Klassiker der Nationalökonomie, this book is a collection of English translations with introductions by Bertram Schefold. The emphasis of this volume is on the theoretical debates. This volume is an important contribution to the history of economic thought not only because it delivers original and fresh insights about well-known figures such as Marx, Stackelberg, Sraffa, Samuelson, Tooke, Hilferding, Schmoller and Chayanov, but also because it deals with authors and ideas who have been forgotten or neglected in previous literature.

An attempt to provide a formal analysis of joint production, the text of which was originally the author's PhD thesis. The work is designed to lead from the most abstract and general concepts of the theory of value to applications in the areas of the measurement of capital and growth.