SAMUELS J WARREN / Biddle Jeff / DAVIS B JOHN

A Companion to the History of Economic Thought

Herausgeber: Samuels, Warren J; Davis, John B; Biddle, Jeff E

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Produktbeschreibung

Assembling contributions from top thinkers in the field, this Companion offers a comprehensive and sophisticated exploration of the history of economic thought. The volume has a threefold focus: the history of economic thought, the history of economics as a discipline, and the historiography of economic thought. The essays in the first part focus on the history of economic ideas, with topics ranging from ancient, medieval, and Islamic thought, to Marxian, Utopian, and postwar thought. The second part explores important historiographical topics, including the sociology of economics, methodology, exegesis, and textuality. Each essay serves as a complex introduction to the chosen topic, and gathered together they provide an extensive synthesis of the field as a whole. The volume is an essential resource for anyone researching or studying the history of economic thought, and will also serve as an excellent text for courses in this area.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 736
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 170mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 1234g
• ISBN-13: 9781405134590
• ISBN-10: 1405134593
• Artikelnr.: 22477282

Autorenporträt

Warren J. Samuels is Professor Emeritus, and former Director of Graduate Programs for the Economics Department at Michigan State University. He is former President of the History of Economics Society and former President of the Association for Social Economics. In 1997 he was made Distinguished Fellow, History of Economics Society. Professor Samuels was Editor of the Journal of Economic Issues and is presently Co-editor of the Journal of Income Distribution. He has been on the Editorial Boards of 16 journals, has written or edited over 40 books, and is widely published in top journals. Jeff E. Biddle is Professor of Economics at Michigan State University. He is widely published in the field of history of economic thought in such journals as The History of Political Economy, Journal of Labor Economics, and American Economic Review. John B. Davis is Professor of Economics at Marquette University, and is former President of the History of Economics Society. Professor Davis specializes in history of economic thought and is renowned for his work on John Maynard Keynes. Recently he was a visiting fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge, UK where he conducted research on Keynes' unpublished manuscripts. Davis is Editor of the Review of Social Economy and his research has been published in The Economic Journal, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Journal of Post-Keynesian Economics, and The History of Political Economics.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures ix
List of Tables x
List of Contributors xi
Preface xv
1 Research Styles in the History of Economic Thought 1
Jeff E. Biddle
PART I HISTORICAL SURVEYS
2 Ancient and Medieval Economics 11
S. Todd Lowry
3 Contributions of Medieval Muslim Scholars to the History of Economics and
their Impact: A Refutation of the Schumpeterian Great Gap 28
Hamid S. Hosseini
4 Mercantilism 46
Lars G. Magnusson
5 Physiocracy and French Pre-Classical Political Economy 61
Philippe Steiner
6 Pre-Classical Economics in Britain 78
Anthony Brewer
7 Adam Smith (1723-1790): Theories of Political Economy 94
Andrew S. Skinner
8 Classical Economics 112
Denis P. O'Brien
9 Post-Ricardian British Economics, 1830-1870 130
Sandra J. Peart and David M. Levy
10 Karl Marx: His Work and the Major Changes in its Interpretation 148
Geert Reuten
11 The Surplus Interpretation of the Classical Economists 167
Heinz D. Kurz
12 Non-Marxian Socialism 184
J. E. King
13 Utopian Economics 201
Warren J. Samuels
14 Historical Schools of Economics: German and English 215
Keith Tribe
15 American Economics to 1900 231
William J. Barber
16 English Marginalism: Jevons, Marshall, and Pigou 246
Peter Groenewegen
17 The Austrian Marginalists: Menger, Böhm-Bawerk, and Wieser 262
Steven Horwitz
18 Early General Equilibrium Economics: Walras, Pareto, and Cassel 278
Donald A. Walker
19 The "First" Imperfect Competition Revolution 294
Maria Cristina Marcuzzo
20 The Stabilization of Price Theory, 1920-1955 308
Roger E. Backhouse
21 Interwar Monetary and Business Cycle Theory: Macroeconomics before
Keynes 325
Robert W. Dimand
22 Keynes and the Cambridge School 343
G. C. Harcourt and Prue Kerr
23 American Institutional Economics in the Interwar Period 360
Malcolm Rutherford
24 Postwar Neoclassical Microeconomics 377
S. Abu Turab Rizvi
25 The Formalist Revolution of the 1950s 395
Mark Blaug
26 A History of Postwar Monetary Economics and Macroeconomics 411
Kevin D. Hoover
27 The Economic Role of Government in the History of Economic Thought 428
Steven G. Medema
28 Postwar Heterodox Economics 445
A The Austrian School of Economics: 1950-2000 445
Peter J. Boettke and Peter T. Leeson
B Feminist Economics 454
Janet A. Seiz
C Institutional Economics 462
Geoffrey M. Hodgson
D Post Keynesian Economics 471
Sheila C. Dow
E Radical Political Economy 479
Bruce Pietrykowski
PART II HISTORIOGRAPHY
29 Historiography 491
Matthias Klaes
30 The Sociology of Economics and Scientific Knowledge, and the History of
Economic Thought 507
A. W. Bob Coats
31 Exegesis, Hermeneutics, and Interpretation 523
Ross B. Emmett
32 Textuality and the History of Economics: Intention and Meaning 538
Vivienne Brown
33 Mathematical Modeling as an Exegetical Tool: Rational Reconstruction 553
A. M. C. Waterman
34 Economic Methodology since Kuhn 571
John B. Davis
35 Biography and the History of Economics 588
D. E. Moggridge
36 Economics and Economists in the Policy Process 606
Craufurd D. W. Goodwin
37 The International Diffusion of Economic Thought 622
José Luís Cardoso
38 The History of Ideas and Economics 634
Mark Perlman
39 Research in the History of Economic Thought as a Vehicle for the Defense
and Criticism of Orthodox Economics 655
John Lodewijks
Name Index 669
Subject Index 688

Rezensionen

"With the range, depth, and clarity of the contributions,this exceptional volume provides the reader with the best modernhistorical thinking on the development of economics from antiquityto the present. It should be on every economist'sbookshelf." E. Roy Weintraub, Duke University

"This collection covers an extraordinary range of keytopics in the history of economic thought and historiography. Whilespace is at a high premium in such collective endeavors, theeditors have allowed contributors ample scope to make meaningfulsurveys. The collection as a whole provides a splendid teaching andresearch resource." Samuel Hollander, Ben-GurionUniversity

"What a wonderful companion; I will keep it on my shelf andrefer to it often. It's an excellent set of brief summaries of thecurrent state of the art in the history of thought, from ancienttimes until today." David Colander, Middlebury College