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Essays in the History of Mainstream Political Economy
This book is a collection of articles on schools, individuals and topics within the mainstream of the history of economic thought. The principal schools are the Physiocrats and the English Classical Economists. The principal individuals are Francois Quesnay, Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus, Francis Y. Edgeworth, Friedrich von Wieser, Frank W. Taussig, and William H. Hutt. The principal topics include the economic role of government, power, the psychology of economics, and the early history of macroeconomics.
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Essays in the History of Mainstream Political Economy
This book is a collection of articles on schools, individuals and topics within the mainstream of the history of economic thought. The principal schools are the Physiocrats and the English Classical Economists. The principal individuals are Francois Quesnay, Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus, Francis Y. Edgeworth, Friedrich von Wieser, Frank W. Taussig, and William H. Hutt. The principal topics include the economic role of government, power, the psychology of economics, and the early history of macroeconomics.
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Essays in the History of Mainstream Political Economy

Essays in the History of Mainstream Political Economy

by Warren J. Samuels
Essays in the History of Mainstream Political Economy

Essays in the History of Mainstream Political Economy

by Warren J. Samuels

Overview

This book is a collection of articles on schools, individuals and topics within the mainstream of the history of economic thought. The principal schools are the Physiocrats and the English Classical Economists. The principal individuals are Francois Quesnay, Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus, Francis Y. Edgeworth, Friedrich von Wieser, Frank W. Taussig, and William H. Hutt. The principal topics include the economic role of government, power, the psychology of economics, and the early history of macroeconomics.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781349122684
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 01/01/1992
Edition description: 1st ed. 1992
Pages: 293
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Warren J. Samuels is Professor of Economics at Michigan State University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements - Introduction - The Physiocratic Theory of Property and State - The Physiocratic Theory of Economic Policy - Adam Smith and the Economy as a System of Power - The Political Economy of Adam Smith - The Classical Theory of Economic Policy: Non-Legal Social Control - Zu Malthus' 'Essay uber die Entwicklung der Bevolkerung' - Malthus als Theoretiker - Edgeworth's Mathematical Psychics: A Centennial Notice - Ashley's and Taussig's Lectures on the History of Economic Thought at Harvard, 1896-1897 - The Teaching of Business Cycles in 1905-1906: Insight into the Development of Macroeconomic Theory - The Teaching of Monetary Economics in the Early 1900s: Insight Into the Development of Monetary Theory - Preface, 'Friedrich von Wieser in the History of Economic Thought' - Taussig on the Psychology of Economic Policy - Introduction - The Influence of Friedrich von Wieser on Joseph A. Schumpeter - Introduction, William H. Hutt, Economists and the Public
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