The Role of government in the history of economic thought / edited by Steven G. Medema and Peter Boettke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Medema, Steven G.

Boettke, Peter J.

Series:

History of political economy. Supplement ; 2005.

History of political economy. Annual supplement

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economics--History.

Economics.

History.

Economic development--Government policy.

Economic development.

Physical Description:

vii, 450 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Durham, N.C. ; London : Duke University Press, 2005.

Contents:

Setting the table / Steven G. Medema

The Limits of economic expertise: prophets, engineers, and the state in the history of development economics / Peter Boettke, Steven Horwitz

Part 1. New perspectives on the British classical tradition

Benevolence, sympathy, and Hume's model of government : how different is new political economy from classical political economy? / Alain Marciano

Are two knaves better than one? Hume, Buchanan, and Musgrave on economics and government / Andrew Farrant Maria Pia Paganelli

Unintended order and intervention: Adam Smith's theory of the role of the state / Jeffrey T. Young

The Theory of economic policy in British classical political economy: a sympathetic reading / David M. Levey Sandra J. Peart

Part 2. Aspects of the American experience.

How TRIP's got legs: Copyright, trade policy, and the role of government in Nineteenth-century American economic thought / Stephen Meardon

Bringing in the state? The life and times of laissez-faire in the Nineteenth-century United States / Bradley W. Bateman

Mistaking Eugenics for social Darwinism: why Eugenics is missing from the history of American economics / Thomas C. Leonard

Walton H. Hamilton and the public control of business / Malcolm Rutherford

Part 3. Doctrine meets policy

From muddling through to the economics of control: views of applied policy from J. N. Keynes to Abba Lerner / David Colander

Economists, governemnt, and economic policymaking in Israel: from "crawling peg" to "cold turkey" / Yakir Plessner Warren Young

From continental public finance to public choice: mapping continuity / Jürgen G. Backhaus Richard E. Wagner

Corporatism and the economic role of government / António Almodovar José Luís Cardoso

The Rise of free market economics: economists and the role of the state since 1970 / Roger E. Backhouse

The Role of government in the history of political economy: the 2004 HOPE Conference interpreted and critiqued by the general discussant / Warren J. Samuels.

Notes:

Includes bibliographies and index.

ISBN:

0822366525

OCLC:

63181903