Peter Groenewegen

Eighteenth Century Economics

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays amounts to the definitive guide to eighteenth century economics and is a must for any economist's bookshelves. This book represents four decades of Peter Groenewegen's research of the eighteenth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 446
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 176mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 780g
• ISBN-13: 9780415279406
• ISBN-10: 0415279402
• Artikelnr.: 20952202

Autorenporträt

Peter Groenewegen is Professor of Economics at the University of Sydney

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: 1. Turgot, Beccaria and Smith 2. Thoughts on the Emergence of
Economics as a Science 3. New Light on the Origins of Modern Economics
Part II: 4. Labour and the Classical Economics 5. Boisguilbert and
Eighteenth Century Economics 6. The French Connection: Some Case studies of
French Influences on British Economics in the Eighteenth Century 7.
Employment and Machinery: Two Classical Debates on the Effects of
Automation 8. The Notion of the Subsistence Wage in Pre-Smithian Classical
Political Economy 9. Sir James Steuart and Richard Cantillon 10. Editing
the Classics in the Antipodes with Special Reference to the Problem of
Identifying Anonymous Authors Part III: 11. Laissez Faire: Reflections on
the French Foundations 12. The Physiocrats: the Origins of Scientific
Economics and the Single Tax 13. Quesnay's First Publication in Economics:
the Article Fermier for the Encyclopédie 14. Du Pont de Nemours on the
Origins and Progress of a New Science 15. Reflections on Pietro Verri's
Political Economy 16. A Re-Appraisal of Turgot's Theory of Value, Exchange
and Price Determination 17. A Reinterpretation of Turgot's Theory of
Capital and Interest 18. Turgot: Forerunner of Neo-Classical Economics? 19.
Turgot's Place in the History of Economic Thought: a Bicentenary Estimate
20. Turgot and Adam Smith 21. A New Catalogue of Adam Smith's Library 22.
Adam Smith and the Division of Labour: a Bicentenary Estimate 23.
Productivity of Labour, Thrift and Economic Progress: Adam Smith's
Optimistic View of Economic Development