History of Economic Analysis
1st Edition
Published on 26. March 1987
Book
Paperback/Softback
1308 pages
978-0-415-10888-1 (ISBN)
Description
At the time of his death in 1950, Joseph Schumpeter was working on his monumantal History of Economic Analysis. Unprecedented in scope, the book was to provide a complete history of economic theory from Ancient Greece to the end of the second world war. A major contribution to the history of ideas as well as to economics, History of Economic Analysis rapidly gained a reputation as a unique and classic work.
As well being an economist, Schumpeter was a gifted mathematician, historian, philosopher and psychologist and this is reflected in the multi-disciplinary nature of his great endeavour. Topics addressed include the techniques of economic analysis, contemporaneous developments in other sciences and the sociology of economics. This inclusiveness extends to the periods and individuals who figure in the book. As well as dealing with all of the major economists from Adam Smith to Maynard Keynes, the book considers the economic writings of Plato and Aristotle, of the Medieval Scholastics and of the major European economists. Throughout, Schumpeter perceived economics as a human science and this is reflected in a volume which is lucid and insightful throughout.
As well being an economist, Schumpeter was a gifted mathematician, historian, philosopher and psychologist and this is reflected in the multi-disciplinary nature of his great endeavour. Topics addressed include the techniques of economic analysis, contemporaneous developments in other sciences and the sociology of economics. This inclusiveness extends to the periods and individuals who figure in the book. As well as dealing with all of the major economists from Adam Smith to Maynard Keynes, the book considers the economic writings of Plato and Aristotle, of the Medieval Scholastics and of the major European economists. Throughout, Schumpeter perceived economics as a human science and this is reflected in a volume which is lucid and insightful throughout.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
2420 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-10888-1 (9780415108881)
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Content
Part 1 Introduction; Chapter P1-1, Introduction and Plan; Chapter P1-2 Interlude I:, The Techniques of Economic Analysis; Chapter P1-3 Interlude II:, Contemporaneous Developments in Other Sciences; Chapter P1-4 The Sociology of Economics; Part 2 From The Beginnings To The First Classical Situation (To About 1790); Chapter P2-1 Graeco-Roman Economics; Chapter P2-2 The Scholastic Doctors and the Philosophers of Natural Law; Chapter P2-3 The Consultant Administrators and the Pamphleteers; Chapter P2-4 The Econometricians and Turgot1[J. A. S. had originally entitled this chapter 'The Econometricians'; on the type-script he added 'and Turgot?' in pencil.; Chapter P2-5 Population, Returns, Wages, and Employment; Chapter P2-6 Value and Money1[Although this chapter was apparently written rather early, it was unfinished and not typed at the death of J. A. S. The manuscript pages were unnumbered and sometimes there were two or three versions of the same page. This chapter was put together with the assistance of Arthur W. Marget.; Chapter P2-7.; Part 3 From 1790 to 1870; Chapter P3-1 Introduction and Plan; Chapter P3-2 Socio-Political Backgrounds; Chapter P3-3 The Intellectual Scenery; Chapter P3-4 Review Of The Troops; Chapter P3-5 General Economics: A Cross Section; Chapter P3-6 of this chapter was written much earlier than the remainder of the chapter. The typescript was dated December 1943. It was obvious that J. A. S. intended to revise these pages on Senior and to make them the introductory section to this chapter. There were many notes clipped to the early typescript. There was no title for this section and no title for the chapter, but the remaining sections were relatively complete with titles for sections and subsections. This section is presented as written, although it lacks the proper introductory remarks and the revisions J. A. S. would have made.; Chapter P3-7 Money, Credit, And Cycles; Part 4 From 1870 To 1914; Part 5 Conclusion.