
The Economics Book
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- Intro
- Cover
- Also by Steven G. Medema
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- c. 700 BCE Hesiod's Work and Days
- c. 530 BCE Pythagoras and Ordering Society
- c. 380 BCE Plato, Aristotle, and the Golden Mean
- c. 370 BCE Xenophon's Oeconomicus
- c. 340 BCE Justice in Exchange
- c. 1100 Scholasticism
- 1265 The Just Price
- 1265 Aquinas on Usury
- c. 1360 Debasement and Oresme's De Moneta
- 1377 Ibn Khaldun's Al-Muqaddimah
- 1517 The Protestant Reformation
- 1539 Mercantile Policies
- 1544 The School of Salamanca
- 1558 Gresham's Law
- 1568 The Quantity Theory of Money
- 1620 Empiricism and Science
- 1621 The Balance-of-Trade Controversy
- 1636 Tulipmania
- 1651 Hobbes's Leviathan
- 1662 Rent and the Theory of Surplus
- 1662 The Equalization of Returns
- c. 1665 The Invention of Calculus
- 1668 The Velocity of Money
- 1690 Locke's Theory of Property
- 1695 Laissez-Faire
- 1705 John Law and Paper Money
- 1705 Mandeville's Fable of the Bees
- 1717 The Gold Standard
- 1718 The Scottish Enlightenment
- 1738 Bernoulli on Expected Utility
- 1751 Galiani's Della Moneta
- 1752 The Price-Specie Flow Mechanism
- 1755 Cantillon's Essay on the Nature of Trade
- 1755 Rousseau's "Political Economy"
- 1756 The Physiocrats
- 1758 The Tableau Économique
- 1760 The Industrial Revolution
- 1766 Turgot's Reflections
- 1767 Supply and Demand
- 1776 Smith's Wealth of Nations
- 1776 The Division of Labor
- 1776 The Competitive Process
- 1776 The Invisible Hand
- 1776 Productive and Unproductive Labor
- 1789 Utilitarianism
- c. 1790 Classical Political Economy
- 1798 The Malthusian Population Theory
- 1802 Thornton's Paper Credit
- 1803 Say's Law
- 1804 Underconsumption
- 1810 The Bullionist Controversy
- 1813 Utopian Socialism
- 1815 Diminishing Returns
- 1815 The Stationary State
- 1816 Conversations on Political Economy
- 1817 The Machinery Question
- 1817 Ricardo's Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
- 1817 The Theory of Comparative Advantage
- 1820 The Law of Demand
- 1821 The Political Economy Club
- 1821 The Labor Theory of Value
- 1826 Thünen's Isolated State
- 1830 The French Engineering Tradition
- 1832 Illustrations of Political Economy
- 1836 The Abstinence Theory of Interest
- 1836 Homo Economicus
- 1836 The Positive-Normative Distinction
- 1838 Cournot's Researches
- 1843 The German Historical School
- 1844 Consumer Surplus
- 1848 The Communist Manifesto
- 1848 Mill's Principles of Political Economy
- 1849 The Dismal Science
- 1854 Gossen's Two Laws
- 1857 The Falling Rate of Profit
- 1862 The Iron Law of Wages
- 1863 Index Numbers
- 1866 The Wages Fund Controversy
- 1867 Marx's Das Kapital
- 1867 The Labor Theory of Value and the Theory of Exploitation
- 1867 The Theory of Crisis
- 1871 The Marginal Revolution
- 1871 Jevons's Theory of Political Economy
- 1871 Menger's Principles of Economics
- 1871 The Austrian School
- 1874 Walras's Elements of Pure Economics
- 1879 The Single Tax
- 1881 Edgeworth's Mathematical Psychics
- 1883 La Scienza della Finanze
- 1883 The Bertrand Model
- 1883 The Methodenstreit
- 1884 Lectures on the Industrial Revolution
- 1884 Fabian Socialism
- 1884 Böhm-Bawerk's Capital and Interest
- 1885 The Professionalization of Economics
- 1886 Economics Journals
- 1889 Opportunity Cost
- 1890 Marshall's Principles of Economics
- 1890 The Demand-Supply Model
- 1890 Ceteris Paribus
- 1890 Elasticity
- 1890 The Time Horizon
- 1890 Antitrust Laws
- 1893 Ordinal Utility
- 1894 Tugan-Baranovsky and the Trade Cycle
- 1896 The Benefit Principle of Taxation
- 1896 Unemployment
- 1896 The Real Rate of Interest
- 1898 Wicksell's Cumulative Process
- 1899 Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class
- 1899 Clark's Distribution of Wealth
- 1903 The Economics Tripos at Cambridge
- 1906 Pareto Optimality and Efficiency
- 1906 Indifference Curves
- 1912 Pigou's Wealth and Welfare
- 1912 External Economies and Diseconomies
- 1913 Mitchell's Business Cycles
- 1913 The Federal Reserve System
- 1913 Luxemburg's Accumulation of Capital
- 1914 The Oxford Approach to Welfare
- 1915 Income and Substitution Effects
- 1919 Institutional Economics
- 1920 The National Bureau of Economic Research
- 1920 The Socialist Calculation Debate
- 1921 Knight's Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit
- 1924 Legal Foundations of Capitalism
- 1925 Kondratiev Waves
- 1928 The Cobb-Douglas Function
- 1929 The Hotelling Model of Locational Choice
- 1929 The Great Depression
- 1930 The Econometric Society
- 1931 The Multiplier
- 1932 Scarcity and Choice
- 1932 The Cowles Commission
- 1932 The Modern Corporation and Private Property
- 1933 The Circular Flow Diagram
- 1933 Émigré Economists
- 1933 The Theory of Monopolistic Competition
- 1933 The Heckscher-Ohlin Model
- 1933 The Economics of Imperfect Competition
- 1933 Mathematical Dynamics
- 1934 The Stackelberg Model
- 1934 National Income Accounting
- 1934 The Hicks-Allen Consumer Theory
- 1936 Keynes's General Theory
- 1936 Liquidity Preference and the Liquidity Trap
- 1936 The Tinbergen Model
- 1937 The IS-LM Model
- 1937 Coase's "Nature of the Firm"
- 1938 Logical Positivism
- 1938 The Bergson Social Welfare Function
- 1938 Revealed Preference Theory
- 1939 Hicks's Value and Capital
- 1939 The Harrod-Domar Growth Model
- 1939 World War II
- 1939 The Multiplier-Accelerator Model
- 1939 The Kaldor-Hicks Efficiency Criterion
- 1941 The Stolper-Samuelson Theorem
- 1941 Input-Output Analysis
- 1942 Creative Destruction
- 1943 The Fundamental Theorems of Welfare Economics
- 1944 Hayek's Road to Serfdom
- 1944 Game Theory Enters Economics
- 1944 Haavelmo's "Probability Approach"
- 1944 The Bretton Woods Agreement
- 1945 Hayek's "Use of Knowledge in Society"
- 1946 The Council of Economic Advisers
- 1946 The Chicago School
- 1946 The Consumer Price Index
- 1947 The Keynesian Revolution
- 1947 Foundations of Economic Analysis
- 1947 Linear Programming
- 1948 Samuelson's Economics
- 1948 The Factor-Price Equalization Theorem
- 1948 The Median Voter Theorem
- 1948 RAND and the Cold War
- 1948 Computation: The Orcutt Regression Analyzer and the Phillips Machine
- 1950 Non-Cooperative Games and Nash Equilibrium
- 1950 The Prisoner's Dilemma
- 1951 Arrow's Impossibility Theorem
- 1952 Resources for the Future and Environmental Economics
- 1952 The Theory of Portfolio Selection
- 1953 The Shapley Value
- 1953 "The Methodology of Positive Economics"
- 1954 Proving the Existence of a General Equilibrium
- 1954 Public Goods
- 1954 Development Economics
- 1954 The Common Pool Problem
- 1955 Bounded Rationality
- 1955 Large-Scale Macroeconometric Models
- 1956 The Theory of Second Best
- 1956 The Tiebout Model
- 1956 The Solow-Swan Growth Model
- 1957 The Economics of Discrimination
- 1957 The Permanent Income Hypothesis
- 1957 The Rational Voter Model and the Paradox of Voting
- 1958 Human Capital Analysis
- 1958 Externalities and Market Failure
- 1958 Cost-Benefit Analysis
- 1958 The Modigliani-Miller Theorem
- 1958 The Phillips Curve
- 1958 Galbraith's The Affluent Society
- 1959 Debreu's The Theory of Value
- 1960 The Coase Theorem
- 1961 Cliometrics: The New Economic History
- 1961 The Economics of Information
- 1961 The Theory of Auctions
- 1961 The Rational Expectations Hypothesis
- 1962 The Capital Asset Pricing Model
- 1962 Public Choice Analysis
- 1963 A Monetary History of the United States
- 1965 The Free-Rider Problem
- 1965 The Efficient Markets Hypothesis
- 1966 Emissions Trading
- 1967 Rent Seeking
- 1967 The Natural Rate of Unemployment
- 1968 The Economics of Crime and Punishment
- 1969 The "Nobel Prize" in Economics
- 1970 Economics Becomes Applied
- 1970 The Market for "Lemons"
- 1970 Collective Choice and Social Welfare
- 1970 The Atkinson Inequality Index
- 1971 Regulatory Capture
- 1971 Flexible Exchange Rates: The End of Bretton Woods
- 1971 Optimal Taxation
- 1972 The New Classical Macroeconomics
- 1972 Mechanism Design
- 1973 The Economic Analysis of Law
- 1973 Agency Theory
- 1973 The Black-Scholes Model
- 1973 Signaling
- 1973 OPEC and the Arab Oil Embargo
- 1974 Supply-Side Economics
- 1975 The Policy Ineffectiveness Proposition
- 1976 Screening-or Pooling and Separating Equilibria
- 1976 The Lucas Critique
- 1977 The New Keynesian Economics
- 1979 The New Trade Theory
- 1979 Behavioral Economics
- 1981 The Personal Computer
- 1982 Real Business Cycle Models
- 1986 The Experimental Turn
- 1986 Endogenous Growth Theory
- 1990 Governance of the Commons
- 1990 Natural Experiments
- 1997 The New Institutional Economics
- 1999 The Euro
- 2003 Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Models
- 2007 The Great Recession
- 2009 Cryptocurrency
- Notes and Further Reading
- Image Credits
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