Handbook of the History of Economic Thought Insights on the Founders of Modern Economics /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Backhaus, Jürgen Georg (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2012.
• Σειρά: The European Heritage in Economics and the Social Sciences ; 11
• Θέματα: Political science.; Economic history.; Economic theory.; Economics.; Methodology/History of Economic Thought.; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.; Political Science.

This reader in the history of economic thought challenges the assumption that today’s prevailing economic theories are always the most appropriate ones. As Leland Yeager has pointed out, unlike the scientists of the natural sciences, economists provide their ideas largely to politicians and politica...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction
• The Tradition of Economic Thought in the Mediterranean World from the Ancient Classical Times Through the Hellenistic Times until the Byzantine Times and Arab-Islamic World
• Mercantilism
• The Cameralists: Fertile Sources for a New Science of Public Finance
• The Physiocrats, Lluis Argemí d'Abadal
• Adam Smith: Theory and Policy.-Life and work of David Ricardo (1772-1823)
• John Stuart Mill’s Road to Leviathan: Early Life and Influences
• John Stuart Mill’s Road to Leviathan: The Principles of Political Economy
• Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
• Johann Heinrich von Thünen – a Founder of Modern Economy
• The legacy of Karl Marx
• Friedrich List striving for Economic Integration and Development
• The Entwicklung according to Gossen
• Gustav Schmoller as a Scientist of Political Economy
• The Empirical and Inductivist Economics of Professor Menger
• Antoine Augustin Cournot
• Léon Walras: What cutes know and what they should know
• Knut Wicksell and Contemporary Political Economy
• The Scientific Contributions of Heinrich von Stackelberg
• Joseph Alois Schumpeter: The Economist of Rhetoric
• Against rigid rules - Keynes’s Economic Theory
• Keynes’s “long struggle of escape,”
• John Maynard Keynes and the Theory of the Monetary Economy
• James Steuart and the Theory of the Monetary Economy
• Friedrich August Hayek (1899-1992).