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History of Economic Thought A Reader; Second Edition

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ISBN-10: 0415568684

ISBN-13: 9780415568685

Edition: 2nd 2013 (Revised)

Authors: Steven G. Medema, Warren J. Samuels

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A charting of the History of Economic Thought provides an essential insight into the thinking that has shaped the world we live in today and the great names of the past are as relevant now as they have ever been. From the free market thinking of Adam Smith to Keynes’ theories of the mixed economy, thinkers of the stature of Alfred Marshall, David Ricardo, William Stanley Jevons and Thorstein Veblen have had an immeasurable influence down the ages.This new edition builds on the canonical nature of the first with the addition of a number of twentieth century articles including contributions from Milton Friedman and John Kenneth Galbraith. New introductions are included by the editors, two of…    
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List price: $66.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 5/16/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 770
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 3.410

Steven G. Medema is professor of economics at the University of Colorado Denver. His many books include "Economics and the Law: From Posner to Post-Modernism and Beyond" (Princeton).

Preface
Acknowledgments
Pre-Classical Thought
Introduction
Aristotle (384-322 BC)
Politics
Nichomachean Ethics (350 BC)
St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
Summa Theologica (1267-1273)
Thomas Mun (1571-1641)
England's Treasure by Forraign Trade (1664)
William Petty (1623-1687)
A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions (1662)
John Locke (1632-1704)
Of Civil Government (1690)
Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest, and Raising the Value of Money (1691)
Richard Cantillon (1680?-1734)
Essay on the Nature of Commerce in General (1755)
Francois Quesnay (1694-1774)
Tableau �conomique (1758)
Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (1727-1781)
Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth (1770)
Bernard Mandeville (1670-1733)
The Grumbling Hive: Or, Knaves Turn'd Honest (1705)
The Classical School
Introduction
David Hume (1711-1776)
Political Discourses (1752): "Of Money"
"Of Interest"
"Of the Balance of Trade"
Adam Smith (1723-1790)
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776)
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789)
A Manual of Political Economy (1795)
Anarchical Fallacies (1795)
Principles of the Civil Code (1802)
Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834)
An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798)
Henry Thornton (1760-1815)
An Enquiry into the Nature and Effects of the Paper Credit of Great Britain (1802)
David Ricardo (1772-1823)
The High Price of Bullion (1810)
Jean-Baptiste Say (1767-1832)
A Treatise on Political Economy (1803)
David Ricardo (1772-1823)
On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1817)
Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834)
Principles of Political Economy (1820)
James Mill (1773-1836)
Elements of Political Economy (1821)
Nassau W. Senior (1790-1864)
An Outline of the Science of Political Economy (1836)
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
Principles of Political Economy (1848)
The Marxian Challenge
Introduction
Karl Marx (1818-1883)
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (1859)
Das Kapital (1867)
The Marginal Revolution
Introduction
William Stanley Jevons (1835-1882)
The Theory of Political Economy (1871)
Carl Menger (1840-1921)
Principles of Economics (1871)
L�on Walras (1834-1910)
Elements of Pure Economics (1874)
Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (1845-1926)
Mathematical Psychics (1881)
Alfred Marshall (1842-1924)
Principles of Economics (1890)
Eugen von B�hm-Bawerk (1851-1914)
The Positive Theory of Capital (1888)
The Development of Macroeconomics
Introduction
Knut Wicksell (1851-1926)
"The Influence of the Rate of Interest on Prices" (1907)
Irving Fisher (1867-1947)
The Purchasing Power of Money and Its Determination and Relation to Credit Interest and Crises (1911)
John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946)
"The End of Laissez-Faire" (1926)
"The General Theory of Employment" (1937)
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936)
Institutional Economics
Introduction
Thorstein B. Veblen (1857-1929)
The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)
John R. Commons (1862-1945)
"Institutional Economics" (1931)
Post-World War II Economics
Introduction
Milton Friedman (1912-2006)
"The Methodology of Positive Economics" (1953)
Paul A. Samuelson (1915-2009)
"The Pure Theory of Public Expenditure" (1954)
"Diagrammatic Exposition of a Theory of Public Expenditure" (1955)
A.W. Phillips (1914-1975)
"The Relation Between Unemployment and the Rate of Change of Money Wage Rates in the United Kingdom, 1861-1957" (1958)
Milton Friedman (1912-2006)
"The Role of Monetary Policy" (1968)
Index