Lefteris Tsoulfidis

Competing Schools of Economic Thought (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

1. 1 Introduction This book was born out of our reaction to the way in which the usual texts cover the subject of the history of economic thought. In most of these texts, there is a tendency to emphasize the similarities and differences between all the important economists and form a repository of encyclopedic knowledge where one can study the seemingly important economic ideas. In this book, we argue that it is much more fruitful to focus on the essential ideas of each and every school of economic thought and relate them to present-day problems, than to engage into a sterile discussion of the ideas and the lives of the great economists of the past. Thus, although this book deals with the history of economic thought, it does not necessarily follow a historic (in the sense of the order of presentation) approach, but rather a logical one, that is to say it deals with the social conditions associated with the emergence of a school of economic thought, its evolution, and its contemporary in?uence. One cannot write a book on the history of economic thought without writing separate chapters on the major economists of the past, that is, Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Karl Marx, and J. M. Keynes. Of course these economists formed schools of economic thought, that is, the classical and the Keynesian.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Berlin
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783540926931
• Artikelnr.: 43788263

Autorenporträt

LefterisTsoulfidis holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Economics from the New School of Social Research, New York (USA), and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki (Greece). He worked for many years in universities in New York, including Hofstra University and College of New Rochelle, before joining the Department of Economics of the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki, where he teaches courses in the history of economic thought, economic history, political economy, mathematical economics, and macroeconomics.

Inhaltsangabe

The Origins of Economic Theory.- Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations.- David Ricardo’s Principles of Political Economy.- Karl Marx’s Das Kapital.- The Structure of Classical Theory.- The Structure of the Neoclassical Theory.- Theory of Capital and Cambridge Controversies.- Between Competition and Monopoly.- Keynes’s General Theory.- The Neoclassical Synthesis.- Disequilibrium Macroeconomics: From Its Brief Ascent to the Rapid Decline.- The Rise and Fall of Monetarism.- New Classical Macroeconomics.- The Real Business Cycles Approach.- The Return of (New) Keynesian Economics.- Economic Theory in Historical Perspective.

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Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Methodology and its Use in Economics.- Chapter 3. The Origins of Economic Theory.- Chapter 4. Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations.- Chapter 5. David Ricardo's Principles of Political Economy.- Chapter 6. Karl Marx's Das Kapital.- Chapter 7. The Structure of Classical Theory.- Chapter 8. The Structure of the Neoclassical Theory.- Chapter 9. Theory of Capital and Cambridge Controversies.- Chapter 10. Between Competition and Monopoly.- Chapter 11. Keynes's General Theory.- Chapter 12. The Neoclassical Synthesis.- Chapter 13. Disequilibrium Macroeconomics: From Its Brief Ascent to the Rapid Decline.- Chapter 14. The Rise and Fall of Monetarism.- Chapter 15. New Classical Macroeconomics.- Chapter 16. The Real Business Cycles Approach.- Chapter 17. The Return of (New) Keynesian Economics.- Chapter 18. Growth Models in Historical Perspective.- Chapter 19. Economic Theory in Historical Perspective.