An outline of the history of economic thought
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An outline of the history of economic thought
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1993
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Profilo di storia del pensiero economico
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Description
This book seeks to provide a comprehensive and analytically sound overview of the development of economics from its beginnings, at the end of the Middle Ages, up to contemporary developments. The economic thought of the past 50 years has been given particular attention to reflect the remarkable growth in research accomplished during this period. The authors present traditional as well as modern theories as part of a historical process. Thus they have not only surveyed economic thought from a theoretical perspective, but have also reconstructed the intellectual climate from which new economic theories have emerged. The book therefore takes a history-of-ideas approach, whose principal aims consist, on the one hand, of understanding the context in which the ideas are formed, and, on the other, of explaining how the fundamental ideas lead to the creation of particular theoretical systems. This book should be of interest to academics and students of economic thought.
Table of Contents
- The birth of political economy
- the laissez-faire revolution and Smithian economics
- from Ricardo to Mill
- socialist economic thought and Marx
- the triumph of utilitarianism and the marginalist revolution
- the construction of neoclassical orthodoxy
- the years of high theory - I - II
- contemporary economic theory - I - II - III.
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