A History Of Economic Theory And Method

Author : Robert B. Ekelund, Jr.,Robert F. Hébert
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 753 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781478611066

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A History of Economic Theory and Method by Robert B. Ekelund, Jr.,Robert F. Hébert Pdf

Known for its clarity, comprehensiveness, and balance, the latest edition of A History of Economic Theory and Method continues that tradition of excellence. Ekelund and Hébert’s survey provides historical and international contexts for how economic models have served social needs throughout the centuries—beginning with the ancient Greeks through the present time. The authors not only trace ideas that have persisted but skillfully demonstrate that past, discredited ideas also have a way of spawning critical thinking and encouraging new directions in economic analysis. Coverage that distinguishes the Sixth Edition from its predecessors includes a detailed analysis of economic solutions by John Stuart Mill and Edwin Chadwick to problems raised by the Industrial Revolution; the role of psychology and “experiments” in understanding demand and consumer behavior; discussions of modern economic theory as it interrelates with other social sciences; and a close look at the historical development of the critical role of entrepreneurship, both in its productive and unproductive variants. The authors’ creative approach gives readers a feel for the thought processes of the great minds in economics and underscores key ideas impacting contemporary thought and practice. Well-crafted discussions are further enriched by absorbing examples and figures. Thorough suggested reading lists give options for more in-depth explorations by interested readers.

Author : Robert Burton Ekelund,Robert F. Hébert
Publisher : McGraw-Hill/Irwin
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Economics
ISBN : PSU:000032223866

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Author : Robert B. Ekelund,Robert F. Hébert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Economics
ISBN : OCLC:489858965

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A History of Economic Theory and Method by Robert B. Ekelund,Robert F. Hébert Pdf

Author : Robert Burton Ekelund (Jr.),Robert F. Hébert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:780693270

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A History of Economic Theory and Method by Robert Burton Ekelund (Jr.),Robert F. Hébert Pdf

Author : Dimitris Milonakis,Ben Fine
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415423229

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From Political Economy to Economics by Dimitris Milonakis,Ben Fine Pdf

Shows how economics was once rich, diverse, multidimensional and pluralistic. Details how political economy became economics through the desocialisation and dehistoricisation of the dismal science.

Author : Steven G Medema,Warren J. Samuels
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136742880

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The History of Economic Thought by Steven G Medema,Warren J. Samuels Pdf

From the ancients to the moderns, questions of economic theory and policy have been an important part of intellectual and public debate, engaging the attention of some of history’s greatest minds. This book brings together readings from more than two thousand years of writings on economic subjects. Through these selections, the reader can see first-hand how the great minds of past grappled with some of the central social and economic issues of their times and, in the process, enhanced our understanding of how economic systems function. This collection of readings covers the major themes that have preoccupied economic thinkers throughout the ages, including price determination and the underpinnings of the market system, monetary theory and policy, international trade and finance, income distribution, and the appropriate role for government within the economic system. These ideas unfold, develop, and change course over time at the hands of scholars such as Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas, John Locke, François Quesnay, David Hume, Adam Smith, Thomas Robert Malthus, David Ricardo, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, William Stanley Jevons, Alfred Marshall, Irving Fisher, Thorstein Veblen, John Maynard Keynes, Milton Friedman, and Paul Samuelson. Each reading has been selected with a view to both enlightening the reader as to the major contributions of the author in question and to giving the reader a broad view of the development of economic thought and analysis over time. This book will be useful for students, scholars, and lay people with an interest in the history of economic thought and the history of ideas generally.

Author : T. Negishi
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780080508153

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History of Economic Theory by T. Negishi Pdf

This volume aims to interest students of modern economic theory in the history of economics. For this purpose, past economic theories are considered from the point of view of current economic theories and translated, if possible and necessary, into mathematical models. It is emphasized that the currently dominating mainstream theory is not the only possible theory, and that there are many past theories which have important significance to the advancement of economic theory in the present situation, or will have it in the near future. After a brief discussion on the history of economics from the point of view of contemporary economic theory, a bird's-eye view of the historical development of economics is given so that readers can see the significance of topics to be discussed in subsequent chapters in a proper historical perspective. These topics are carefully chosen to show not only what great economists in the past contributed to the development of economics, but also what suggestions for solving our own current problems we can obtain by reworking problems they had to face. The book can be used in advanced undergraduate as well as graduate classes on the history of economics. Mathematical techniques used can easily be understood by advanced undergraduates of economics major, since some models constructed originally by contemporary mathematical economists are carefully reformulated without losing the essence, basic calculus and the rudiments of linear algebra being sufficient for understanding.

Author : Jürg Niehans
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1994-10-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0801849764

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A History of Economic Theory by Jürg Niehans Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive account of the builders and building blocks of modern mainstream economics. Jrg Niehans shows how the analytical tools used by economists have evolved from the eighteenth century to the present, and he describes economic theory in the model-building era, from Pigou and Keynes to Rational Expectations.

Author : Mark Blaug
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1992-07-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107717268

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The Methodology of Economics by Mark Blaug Pdf

This book is an examination of the nature of economic explanation. The opening chapters introduce current thinking in the philosophy of science and review the literature on methodology. Professor Blaug then turns to the troublesome question of the logical status of welfare economics, giving the reader an understanding of the outstanding issues in the methodology of economics. This is followed by a series of case studies of leading economic controversies, which shows how controversies in economics may be illuminated by paying attention to questions of methodology. A final chapter draws the strands together and gives the author's view of what is wrong with modern economics. This book is a revised and updated edition of a classic work on the methodology of economics, in which Professor Blaug develops his discussion of the latest developments in macroeconomics, general equilibrium theory and international trade theory. A new section on the rationality postulate is also added.

Author : Israel M. Kirzner
Publisher : Ludwig von Mises Institute
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Economics
ISBN : 9781610162821

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Economic Point of View by Israel M. Kirzner Pdf

Author : Roberto Marchionatti
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030809874

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Economic Theory in the Twentieth Century, An Intellectual History—Volume II by Roberto Marchionatti Pdf

This book, set out over three-volumes, provides a comprehensive history of economic thought in the 20th century with special attention to the cultural and historical background in the development of theories, to the leading or the peripheral research communities and their interactions, and finally to an assessment and critical appreciation of economic theories. Volume II addresses economic theory in the period between the two world wars in which the economic theory went through a process of criticism of old mainstream, deconstruction and reconstruction and theoretical ferment which involved the intellectual communities of economists emphasizing their nature of evolving interacting entities. This work provides a significant and original contribution to the history of economic thought and gives insight to the thinking of some of the major international figures in economics. It will appeal to students, scholars and the more informed reader wishing to further their understanding of the history of the discipline.

Author : Steven G Medema
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004-02-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134627035

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The History of Economic Thought: A Reader by Steven G Medema Pdf

This new reader in the history of economic thought is edited by two of the most respected figures in the field. With clearly written summaries putting each selection into context, this book will be of great use to students and lecturers of the history of economic thought as it goes beyond the simple reprinting of articles. Selections and discussions include such thinkers as Aristotle, John Locke, François Quesnay, David Hume, Jean-Baptiste Say, Karl Marx, William Stanley Jevons, Irving Fisher and Thorstein Veblen. The History of Economic Thought: A Reader can be used as a core textbook or as a supplementary text on courses in economic thought and philosophy, and will provide readers with a good foundation in the different schools of thought that run through economics.

Author : Wilfred Dolfsma,D. Wade Hands,Robert McMaster
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429577475

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History, Methodology and Identity for a 21st Century Social Economics by Wilfred Dolfsma,D. Wade Hands,Robert McMaster Pdf

This book seeks to advance social economic analysis, economic methodology, and the history of economic thought in the context of twenty-first-century scholarship and socio-economic concerns. Bringing together carefully selected chapters by leading scholars it examines the central contributions that John Davis has made to various areas of scholarship. In recent decades, criticisms of mainstream economics have rekindled interest in a number of areas of scholarly inquiry that were frequently ignored by mainstream economic theory and practice during the second half of the twentieth century, including social economics, economic methodology and history of economic thought. This book contributes to a growing literature on the revival of these areas of scholarship and highlights the pivotal role that John Davis’s work has played in the ongoing revival. Together, the international panel of contributors show how Davis’s insights in complexity theory, identity, and stratification are key to understanding a reconfigured economic methodology. They also reveal that Davis’s willingness to draw from multiple academic disciplines gives us a platform for interrogating mainstream economics and provides the basis for a humane yet scientific alternative. This unique volume will be essential reading for advanced students and researchers across social economics, history of economic thought, economic methodology, political economy and philosophy of social science.

Author : Warren J. Samuels,Jeff E. Biddle,Ross B. Emmett
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781846639029

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Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology (Part A, B & C) by Warren J. Samuels,Jeff E. Biddle,Ross B. Emmett Pdf

A collection of refereed articles on topics in economic methodology and the history of economics, including Austrian economic methodology and Wesley Mitchell.

Author : Matthias Blum,Christopher L. Colvin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319965680

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An Economist’s Guide to Economic History by Matthias Blum,Christopher L. Colvin Pdf

Without economic history, economics runs the risk of being too abstract or parochial, of failing to notice precedents, trends and cycles, of overlooking the long-run and thus misunderstanding ‘how we got here’. Recent financial and economic crises illustrate spectacularly how the economics profession has not learnt from its past. This important and unique book addresses this problem by demonstrating the power of historical thinking in economic research. Concise chapters guide economics lecturers and their students through the field of economic history, demonstrating the use of historical thinking in economic research, and advising them on how they can actively engage with economic history in their teaching and learning. Blum and Colvin bring together important voices in the field to show readers how they can use their existing economics training to explore different facets of economic history. Each chapter introduces a question or topic, historical context or research method and explores how they can be used in economics scholarship and pedagogy. In a century characterised to date by economic uncertainty, bubbles and crashes, An Economist’s Guide to Economic History is essential reading. For further information visit http://www.blumandcolvin.org