Research Catalog

Title

The growth of economic thought / Henry William Spiegel.

Author

Spiegel, Henry William, 1911-

Publication

Durham : Duke University Press, 1991.

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Details

Description

xxviii, 868 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subjects

• History
• Economics > History

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [678]-845) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

From the Bible to Plato: Founts of Western civilization -- From Aristotle to the fathers of the church -- Medieval economic thought: The practice of charity and the avoidance of sin -- The transition of the sixteenth century: From unity to diversity -- Mercantilism: Economic warfare for national gain -- Beyond mercantilism: The rise of quantitative methods ; The emergence of liberal ideas -- The rise of physiocratic thought: Nature's circular flow -- Discordant currents of thought: Galiani, Hume, Steuart -- Adam Smith's economics of self-reliance: The philosophical background -- The details of Smith's system and its reorganization by Say -- Malthus's population doctrine of self-denial -- Further transformation of Smith's economics: The concern with demand -- Ricardian economics: Liberalism enthroned -- From Ricardo to Mill: Consolidation and Ferment -- John Stuart Mill: Liberalism redeemed -- Interludes of historical economics: Baconian and related variants -- The Hegelian varient of historical economics -- Socialism before Marx: A diversity of views -- Marx: Salvation through revolution -- Socialism after Marx: Reform versus revolution -- Economics restructured: Marginalism and optimization: Forerunners and Jevons ; The Austrian school: Assent on utility ; The Lausanne school: A general equilibrium ; The Cambridge school: Transcending supply and demand -- From Wicksell to Keynes: The upsurge of monetary and income analysis -- Economic thought in the United States: Orthodoxy and dissent -- From Economics to econometrics -- An expanded profession in search of new frontiers.

ISBN

• 0822309653
• 0822309734 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^^89028556^

OCLC

20564551

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library