Development of economic analysis / Ingrid Hahne Rima.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rima, Ingrid Hahne, 1925- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economics--History.

Economics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (600 p.)

Edition:

Sixth edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is the sixth edition of a textbook that has been instrumental in introducing a generation of students to the history of economic thought. It charts the development of economics from its establishment as an analytical discipline in the eighteenth century through to the late twentieth century. The book discusses the work of, amongst others: Ricardo, Malthus, Marx, Walras, Marshall and Keynes as well as the institutionalists, the Chicago School and the emergence of econometrics. This edition has been fully revised and updated and includes:* chronologies of the key dates in the development of

Contents:

CONTENTS; Preface to the sixth edition; Part 1; Preclassical Economics; 1 Early masterworks as sources of economic thought ; 2 The origins of analytical economics ; 3 The transition to classical economics ; Part II; Classical Economics; 4 Physiocracy: the beginning ofanalytical economics; 5 Adam Smith: from moral philosophyto political economy; 6 Thomas Malthus and J.B.Say: thepolitical economy of populationbehavior and aggregate demand; 7 David Ricardo and William NassauSenior: income shares and theirlong-term tendencies

8 Ricardo, Senior and John Stuart Mill:international trade, monetarytheory and method in economicscience9 Classical theory in review: fromQuesnay to McCulloch; Part III ; The Critics of Classicism; 10 Socialism, induction, and the forerunners of marginalism ; 11 Karl Marx: an inquiry into the 'Lawof Motion' of the capitalist system; 12 'First-generation' marginalists:Jevons, Walras, and Menger; 13 'Second-generation' marginalistsand the Austrian School; Part IV; The Neoclassical Tradition, 1890-1945; 14 Alfred Marshall and the neoclassicaltradition

15 Chamberlin, Robinson, and otherprice theorists16 The 'new' theory of welfare andconsumer behavior; 17 Neoclassical monetary andbusiness-cycle theorists; Part V; The Dissent from Neoclassicism,1890-1945; 18 The dissent of American institutionalists; 19 The economics of planning; socialism without Marxism; 20 J.M.Keynes's critique of themainstream tradition; 21 Keynes's theory of employment,output, and income; Harrod'sdynamic interpretation; Part VI; Beyond High Theory; 22 The emergence of econometrics asthe sister discipline of economics; 23 Keynesians, neo-Walrasians, andmonetarists

24 The analytics of economicliberalism: the Chicagotradition25 Competing paradigms incontemporary economics; Index of names; Index of subjects

Notes:

"First published 1967 by Richard D. Irwin, Inc."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-136-71456-1

1-136-71457-X

0-415-23296-1

0-415-23297-X

0-203-44971-1

0-203-81536-X

1-134-76423-5

1-134-57061-9

9780203449714

OCLC:

817888254