Author(s): Ingrid H Rima
Edition: 7
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 606
City: London
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Contents
Preface to the seventh edition
Part I Preclassical Economics
Chapter 1 Early masterworks as sources of economic thought
Chapter 2 The origins of analytical economics
Chapter 3 The transition to classical economics
Part II Classical Economics
Chapter 4 Physiocracy: The beginning of analytical economics
Chapter 5 Adam Smith: From moral philosophy to political economy
Chapter 6 Thomas Malthus and J. B. Say: The political economy of population behavior and aggregate demand
Chapter 7 David Ricardo: Analysis of the distributive shares, international trade and money
Chapter 8 Building on Ricardian foundations: The Mills, W. N. Senior, and Charles Babbage
Chapter 9 Classical theory in review: From the French theorists to J. R. McCulloch (1789–1864)
Part III The Critics of Classicism
Chapter 10 Socialism, induction, and the forerunners of marginalism
Chapter 11 Karl Marx: An inquiry into the “Law of Motion” of the capitalist system
Chapter 12 First-generation marginalists: Jevons, Walras, and Menger
Chapter 13 “Second-generation” marginalists
Part IV The Neoclassical Tradition, 1890–1945
Chapter 14 Alfred Marshall and the neoclassical tradition
Chapter 15 Chamberlin, Robinson, and other price theorists
Chapter 16 The “new” theory of welfare and consumer behavior
Chapter 17 Neoclassical monetary and business-cycle theorists
Part V The Dissent from Neoclassicism, 1890–1945
Chapter 18 The dissent of American institutionalists
Chapter 19 The economics of planning: Socialism without Marxism
Chapter 20 J. M. Keynes’s critique of the mainstream tradition
Chapter 21 Keynes’s theory of employment, output, and income
Part VI Beyond High Theory
Chapter 22 The emergence of econometrics as the sister discipline of economics
Chapter 23 Neo-Keynesians, neo-Walrasians, and monetarists
Chapter 24 The analytics of economic liberalism: The theory of choice
Part VII Competing Economic Paradigms
Chapter 25 The challenge of competing paradigms in contemporary economics
Index
