Economics Evolving A History of Economic Thought

Name: Economics Evolving A History of Economic Thought
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ISBN: 9780691148427

ISBN-10: 0691148422

ISBN-13: 9780691148427

Edition: 2011

Authors: Agnar Sandmo

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In clear, nontechnical language, this introductory textbook describes the history of economic thought, focusing on the development of economic theory from Adam Smith'sWealth of Nationsto the late twentieth century.The text concentrates on the most important figures in the history of economics, from Smith, Thomas Robert Malthus, David Ricardo, John Stuart Mill, and Karl Marx in the classical period to John Maynard Keynes and the leading economists of the postwar era, such as John Hicks, Milton Friedman, and Paul Samuelson. It describes the development of theories concerning prices and markets, money and the price level, population and capital accumulation, and the choice between socialism…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 1/25/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 504
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 1.848
Language: English



Preface



A Science and Its History



Before Adam Smith



Adam Smith



The Classical School: Thomas Robert Malthus and David Ricardo



Consolidation and Innovation: John Stuart Mill



Karl Marx as an Economic Theorist



The Forerunners of Marginalism



The Marginalist Revolution I: William Stanley Jevons and Carl Menger



The Marginalist Revolution II: Lï¿½on Walras



Alfred Marshall and Partial Equilibrium Theory



Equilibrium and Welfare: Edgeworth, Pareto, and Pigou



Interest and Prices: Knut Wicksell and Irving Fisher



New Perspectives on Markets and Competition



The Great Systems Debate



John Maynard Keynes and the Keynesian Revolution



Frisch, Haavelmo, and the Birth of Econometrics



The Modernization of Economic Theory in the Postwar Period



Further Developments in the Postwar Period



Long-term Trends and New Perspectives


References


Index