History of Economic Thought: A Critical Perspective

by E. K. Hunt, Mark Lautzenheiser

Overview

The new edition of this classroom classic retains the organizing theme of the original text, presenting the development of thought within the context of economic history. Economic ideas are framed in terms of the spheres of production and circulation, with a critical analysis of how past theorists presented their ideas.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780765625991
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/15/2011
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	608
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

E. K. Hunt; Mark Lautzenheiser

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures, Foreword, Preface, Acknowledgments, 1. Introduction, 2. Economic Ideas Before Adam Smith, 3. Adam Smith, 4. Thomas Robert Malthus, 5. David Ricardo, 6. Rationalistic Subjectivism: The Economics of Bentham, Say, and Senior, 7. Political Economy of the Poor: The Ideas of William Thompson and Thomas Hodgskin, 8. Pure Versus Eclectic Utilitarianism: The Writings of Bastiat and Mill, 9. Karl Marx, 10. The Triumph of Utilitarianism: The Economics of Jevons, Menger, and Walras, 11. Neoclassical Theories of the Firm and Income Distribution: The Writings of Marshall, Clark, and Böhm-Bawerk, 12. Thorstein Veblen, 13. Theories of Imperialism: The Writings of Hobson, Luxemburg, and Lenin, 14. Consummation, Consecration, and Destruction of the Invisible Hand: Neoclassical Welfare Economics, 15. Neoclassical Ideology and the Myth of the Self-Adjusting Market: The Writings of John Maynard Keynes, 16. Annulment of the Myth of the Measurable Productivity of Capital: The Writings of Piero Sraffa, 17. Contemporary Economics I: The Bifurcation of Orthodoxy, 18. Contemporary Economics II: Institutionalism and Post-Keynesianism, 19. Contemporary Economics III: The Revival of Critical Political Economy, Suggestions for Further Reading, Index, About the Authors