The ordinary business of life : a history of economics from the ancient world to the twenty-first century / Roger E. Backhouse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Backhouse, Roger.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economics--History.

Economics.

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 368 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2002]

Summary:

Taking readers from Homer to the frontiers of game theory, this book presents an engrossing history of economics, what Alfred Marshall called "the study of mankind in the ordinary business of life." Backhouses volume is vividly written and unprecedented in its integration of ancient and modern economic history. Illustrations.

Contents:

Prologue

The ancient world

The Middle Ages

The emergence of the modern world view - the sixteenth century

Science, politics and trade in seventeenth-century England

Absolutism and enlightenment in eighteenth-century France

The Scottish enlightenment of the eighteenth century

Classical political economy, 1790-1870

The split between history and theory in Europe, 1870-1914

The rise of American economics, 1870-1939

Money and the business cycle, 1898-1939

Econometrics and mathematical economics, 1930 to the present

Welfare economics and socialism, 1870 to the present

Economists and policy, 1939 to the present

Expanding the disciplines, 1960 to the present

Epilogue: economists and their history.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-352) and index.

ISBN:

0691096260

OCLC:

49198341