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The History of Economics: A Course for Students and Teachers

The History of Economics: A Course for Students and Teachers

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Publisher Agenda Publishing
Year 30/11/2017
Pages 400
Version paperback
Readership level College/higher education
Language English
ISBN 9781911116707
Categories Economic theory & philosophy
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Book description

As a broad introduction to the history of economic thought - based on courses the authors have taught for many years - this book provides a magisterial overview for students and teachers who have not had the opportunity to cover the development of the field of economics in its historical context.


The text is presented as a series of twenty-four lectures, which can be used as the basis for self-study or for the delivery of a course. Each lecture presents an outline of aims, a select bibliography, a chronology, an overview of between 3,000 and 4,000 words, and questions for further study or reflection.


Contemporary understanding of economic principles sheds little light on the manner in which past thinkers thought, so the reader is provided with the much-needed context behind the development of ideas, as well as being guided through the original writings of economists such as Smith, Jevons, Marshall, Robbins, Keynes and others. The emphasis is on the broad developing stream of economic argument from the seventeenth century to the present, seeking to emphasize a diversity that is sometimes suppressed in more conventional textbooks, which tend to organize their histories into sequences of schools of thought.


Backhouse and Tribe bring their considerable insight and knowledge to bear on the text, having honed their presentation to the needs of those with no previous background in the subject, without sacrificing analysis or rigour. The book will be warmly welcomed by students and teachers alike.

The History of Economics: A Course for Students and Teachers

Table of contents

Introduction

1. Commerce, wealth and power: the disputed foundations of the strength of a nation

2. Natural order, physiocracy and reform

3. Adam Smith I: outline of a project

4. Adam Smith II: the two texts

5. The political economy of Malthus and Ricardo

6. Political economy in continental Europe and the United States

7. Political economy, philosophic radicalism and John Stuart Mill

8. Popular political economy: List, Carey, Bastiat and George

9. Radical political economy: Marx and his sources

10. Marginalism and subjectivism: Jevons and Edgeworth

11. From political economy to economics

12. Alfred Marshall's project

13. Microeconomics after Marshall

14. Monetary economics

15. The rise of mathematical economics, 1930-60

16. Robbins's Essay and the definition of economics

17. John Maynard Keynes

18. Quantitative economics

19. The Keynesian revolution

20. Modern macroeconomics

21. Inflation and the Phillips curve

22. Popular economics

23. Economics and policy

24. Ideology and place

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