The history of economics : a course for students and teachers / Roger Backhouse, Keith Tribe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Backhouse, Roger, author.

Tribe, Keith, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economics--History.

Economics.

Lectures and lecturing.

Economics--Study and teaching.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (389 pages)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Agenda Publishing, [2018]

Summary:

A magisterial overview of the history of economic thought from the seventeenth century to the present day, one that emphasizes a diversity of economic argument that it sometime suppressed in more conventional textbooks, which tend to organize their histories into sequences fo schools of thought.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Introduction

Lecture 1. Commerce, Wealth and Power: The Disputed Foundations of the Strength of a Nation

Lecture 2. Natural Order, Physiocracy and Reform

Lecture 3. Adam Smith I: Outline of a Project

Lecture 4. Adam Smith II: The Two Texts

Lecture 5. The Political Economy of Malthus and Ricardo

Lecture 6. Political Economy in Continental Europe and the United States

Lecture 7. Political Economy, Philosophic Radicalism and John Stuart Mill

Lecture 8. Popular Political Economy: List, Carey, Bastiat and George

Lecture 9. Radical Political Economy: Marx and His Sources

Lecture 10. Marginalism and Subjectivism: Jevons and Edgeworth

Lecture 11. From Political Economy to Economics

Lecture 12. Alfred Marshall's Project

Lecture 13. Markets and Welfare after Marshall

Lecture 14. Monetary Economics

Lecture 15. The Rise of Mathematical Economics

Lecture 16. Robbins's Essay and the Definition of Economics

Lecture 17. John Maynard Keynes

Lecture 18. Quantitative Economics

Lecture 19. The Keynesian Revolution

Lecture 20. Modern Macroeconomics

Lecture 21. Inflation and the Phillips Curve

Lecture 22. Popular Economics

Lecture 23. Economics and Policy

Lecture 24. Ideology and Place.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Backhouse, Roger E. The History of Economics

ISBN:

1-78821-131-6

OCLC:

1305846661