History of Economic Thought

Name: History of Economic Thought
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ISBN: 9780571165537

ISBN-10: 0571165532

ISBN-13: 9780571165537

Edition: 5th 1992

Authors: Eric Roll

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This book - now in its fifth edition - contains thoroughly revised chapters dealing with the ideas and writers of the first 200 years of the subject, and has incorporated any significant new material. The later sections dealing with the last 50 years or so have been much expanded and updated in the light of current developments relating particularly to controversies on economic policy.

Book details

List price: $42.95
Edition: 5th
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Faber & Faber, Incorporated
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 656
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.50" long x 1.69" tall
Weight: 1.650
Language: English

Foreword to the Fifth Edition
Introduction: Economics and the History of Ideas	p. 1
The Beginnings	p. 9
The Old Testament	p. 9
Greece: Plato and Aristotle	p. 14
The Roman Empire and Christianity	p. 24
The Middle Ages and the Canon Law	p. 29
Commercial Capitalism and its Theory	p. 42
The Decline of Scholasticism	p. 42
The Quality of Mercantilism	p. 48
Bullionism and Mercantilism	p. 56
Thomas Mun	p. 63
The Founders of Political Economy	p. 72
The Political Philosophers	p. 72
The Growth of Industrial Capitalism	p. 77
Petty	p. 83
Locke; North; Law; Hume	p. 96
Cantillon; Steuart	p. 105
The Physiocrats	p. 111
The Classical System	p. 121
The Quality of Classicism	p. 121
Adam Smith	p. 125
Ricardo	p. 155
Malthus's Theory of Population	p. 175
Reaction and Revolution	p. 178
The Shortcomings of Classicism	p. 178
Malthus's Critique of Accumulation	p. 180
The German Romantics	p. 189
Socialist Criticism	p. 208
Marx	p. 227
Life and Sources	p. 227
Method	p. 231
The Labour Theory of Value	p. 236
Surplus Value	p. 241
The Theory of Capitalist Competition	p. 247
The Theory of Economic Development	p. 254
An Appraisal	p. 260
The Transition	p. 271
The Classical Heritage	p. 271
The Historical School	p. 276
Jones	p. 283
The Break Up of the Labour Theory of Value	p. 289
Senior	p. 311
Mill	p. 322
Modern Economics	p. 336
The Quality of Modern Economics	p. 336
Marginal Utility	p. 341
The Second Generation	p. 361
The Beginning of American Economics	p. 380
The Background	p. 380
The Marginalist School	p. 389
Veblen	p. 402
The Inter-war Years	p. 418
Theory and Reality	p. 418
The Theory of Equilibrium	p. 425
Keynes	p. 441
Macroeconomics and Economic Management	p. 460
From War to Peace	p. 460
The Statistical Contribution	p. 461
Underemployment or Employment Economics?	p. 471
The Macroeconomic System	p. 481
Economic Management; the New Orthodoxy	p. 494
The Age of Doubt and a New Counter-revolution	p. 506
From Authority to Disaffection	p. 506
Money and the International Nexus	p. 514
Employment and Inflation	p. 525
Growth, Welfare and Economic Structure	p. 541
A New Certainty?	p. 561
From the New Economics to the New Classical Economics	p. 561
Conclusion: Economics Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow	p. 568
Index	p. 580
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