This important new book is a critical introduction to the history of economic theory which introduces students and teachers to the central figures and doctrines of economics from Adam Smith to the rational-expectations school. The first part of the book examines the doctrines of the classical economists including Smith, Malthus, Ricardo and Marx. This is followed by a section on the rise of marginalist economics focusing on the work of Jevons, Walras, Menger, Bohm-Bawerk, Marshall and Pigou. The final section examines the history of macroeconomics since Keynes published the General Theory. Topics discussed in this section include the IS-LM analysis, general disequilibrium analysis, Harrod's growth model, post Keynesian economics, monetarism and the rational-expectations hypothesis. Professor Dome analyses the main contributions in the history of economic thought through a series of elementary diagrams and equations which make these ideas accessible to students.
This book is suitable for advanced undergraduate or introductory postgraduate courses on the history of economic thought as well as supplementary reading in courses on microeconomics and macroeconomics.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
'Much of the writing is clear and simple, and parts of the book may be useful alongside other texts as providing helpful accounts of the analytical skeleton of some of the theories considered.' -- Roger E. Backhouse, History of Economic Thought
Sprache
Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Maße
Höhe: 234 mm
Breite: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-85898-114-7 (9781858981147)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Takuo Dome, Associate Professor of Economics, Osaka University, Japan
Part I Classical economics: Adam Smith - the founder of classical economics; Thomas Robert Malthus - population and economy; David Ricardo - the origin of theoretical economics; Karl Marx - a predictor of the collapse of the capitalist economy. Part II Marginalist economics: the marginal revolution - the beginning of modern economics; William Stanley Jevons - a challenger to classical economics; Leon Walras - formation of general equilibrium theory; Carl Menger - the founder of the Austrian school; Eugen Von Bohm-Bawerk - development of the Austrian school; Alfred Marshall - generalization of classical economics by the marginal principle; Arthur Cecil Pigou - establishment of welfare economics. Part III Macroeconomics after Keynes: Knut Wicksell - secession from the quantity theory of money?; John Maynard Keynes - the advent of the "general theory"; IS-LM analysis - neoclassical synthesis of the "general theory"; general disequilibium analysis - a micro-foundation of the "general theory"; Roy Harrod - a dynamic version of the "general theory"; post-Keynesian economics - classical synthesis of the "general theory"; monetarism and rational-expectation school - anti-Keynesian economics.
