Books in the OXF STUDIES HISTORY ECONOMICS SERIES series

With an emphasis on the ideas that shaped the postwar international system, Robert Triffin: A Life explores both the man and his work. This biography evaluates what made Triffin a crucial figure in modern economic history, tracing Triffin's story from a child of the interwar period to his key role in European integration and ultimately the euro.

Before Method and Models examines the shocked reaction to their first appearance of economists in nineteenth-century Britain, where the presumption of Thomas Robert Malthus and David Ricardo to reform society on the basis of theory was unwelcome. Walter shows how the major challenge facing the first economists was, accordingly, to legitimize the activity of theorizing and then reforming economic life, along with the institutions that embedded it in thepolitical nation.