A Companion to the History of Economic Thought
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Assembling contributions from top thinkers in the field, this companion offers a comprehensive and sophisticated exploration of the history of economic thought. The volume has a threefold focus: the history of economic thought, the history of economics as a discipline, and the historiography of economic thought.
- Provides sophisticated introductions to a vast array of topics.
- Focuses on a unique range of topics, including the history of economic thought, the history of the discipline of economics, and the historiography of economic thought.
ISBN
978-0-631-22573-7
Publication Date
8-2003
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell Publishing
City
Malden, MA
Disciplines
Economic History | Economics
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Table of Contents
1. Research Styles in the History of Economic Thought
Part I Historical Surveys
2. Ancient and Medieval Economics
3. Contributions of Medieval Muslim Scholars to the History of Economics and their Impact: A Refutation of the Schumpeterian Great Gap
4. Mercantilism
5. Physiocracy and French Pre-Classical Political Economy
6. Pre-Classical Economic in Britain
7. Adam Smith (1723-1790): Theories of Political Economy
8. Classical Economics
9. Post-Ricardian British Economics, 1830-1870
10. Karl Marx: His Work and the Major Changes in its Interpretation
11. The Surplus Interpretation of the Classical Economists
12. Non-Marxian Socialism
13. Utopian Economics
14. Historical Schools of Economics: German and English
15. American Economics to 1900
16. English Marginalism: Jevons, Marshall, and Pigou
17. The Austrian Marginalists: Menger, Bohm-Bawerk, and Wieser
18. Early General Equilibrium Economics: Walras, Pareto, and Cassel
19. The “First” Imperfect Competition Revolution
20. The Stabilization of Price Theory, 1920-1955
21. Interwar Monetary and Business Cycle Theory: Macroeconomics before Keynes
22. Keynes and the Cambridge School
23. American Institutional Economics in the Interwar Period
24. Postwar Neoclassical Microeconomics
25. The Formalist Revolution of the 1950s
26. A History of Postwar Monetary Economics and Macroeconomics
27. The Economic Role of Government in the History of Economic Thought
28. Postwar Heterodox
Part II Historiography
29. Historiography
30. The Sociology of Economics and Scientific Knowledge, and the History of Economic Thought
31. Exegesis, Hermeneutics, and Interpretation
32. Textuality and the History of Economics: Intention and Meaning
33. Mathematical Modeling as an Exegetical Tool: Rational Reconstruction
34. Economic Methodology since Kuhn
35. Biography and the History of Economics
36. Economics and Economists in the Policy Process
37. The International Diffusion of Economic Thought
38. The History of Ideas and Economics
39. Research in the History of Economic Thought as a Vehicle for the Defense and Criticism of Orthodox Economics
Name Index
Subject Index