Guy Routh

The Origin of Economic Ideas

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An updated version of the classic economics textbook, revised to include current developments in the field. It traces the development of modern economics and assesses the work of many famous theorists. A chronology of the principal works of all economists mentioned in the text is included.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Macmillan Education / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-333-44325-5
• 2. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 1989
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 478g
• ISBN-13: 9780333443255
• ISBN-10: 033344325X
• Artikelnr.: 44398324

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Diagnosis: Simonde de Sismondi; William Thompson; Richard Jones; four critical Victorians; American critics; Britain between the wars; modern times; the adamant paradigm. Part 2 The preposterous origins: the just price; the mercantile revolution; Sir William Petty; John Locke and Dudley North; Vauban and Boisguillebert; Richard Cantillon; the Physiocrats; Adam Smith. Part 3 From propaganda to dogma: Malthus on population; Ricardo; Malthus on economics; Jean-Baptiste Say; Say's law; Nassau W.Senior; John Stuart Mill; the popularizers. Part 4 The Marxist transformation: new visions; manifesto of the Communist Party; the economic system; the Marxian revocation; Marxism assessed. Part 5 Tiny increments of economic change: constituents of the marginal doctrine; marginalism unveiled, developed and assessed. Part 6 The Keynesian restoration: the world of the thirties; the economists' answer; the General Theory. Part 7 The world of the textbooks: perfect competition; consumers; business behaviour; macroeconomics; the hard core; signs of hope; the role of the textbooks. Part 8: re-formation.