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Title Handbook of the history of economic thought : insights on the founders of modern economics / Jürgen Georg Backhaus, editor
Published New York, NY : Springer, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 728 pages) : illustrations
Series The European heritage in economics and the social sciences ; 11
European heritage in economics and the social sciences ; 11.
Contents Introduction / Jürgen Georg Backhaus -- 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 / Christos P. Baloglou -- Mercantilism / Helge Peukert -- The Cameralists: Fertile Sources for a New Science of Public Finance / Richard E. Wagner -- The Physiocrats / Lluis Argemí d'Abadal -- Adam Smith : Theory and Policy / Andrew S. Skinner -- Life and Work of David Ricardo (1772-1823) / Arnold Heertje -- John Stuart Mill's Road to Leviathan : Early Life and Influences / Michael R. Montgomery -- John Stuart Mill's Road to Leviathan II : The Principles of Political Economy / Michael R. Montgomery -- Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) / Christos P. Baloglou -- Johann Heinrich von Thèunen : A Founder of Modern Economics / Hans Frambach -- The Legacy of Karl Marx / Helge Peukert -- Friedrich List's Striving for Economic Integration and Development / Karl-Heinz Schmidt -- The Entwickelung According to Gossen / Jan van Daal -- Gustav Schmoller as a Scientist of Political Economy / Reginald Hansen -- The Empirical and Inductivist Economics of Professor Menger / Karl Milford -- Antoine Augustin Cournot / Christos P. Baloglou -- Léon Walras : What Cutes Know and What They Should Know / J.A. Hans Maks and Jan van Daal -- Alfred Marshall / Earl Beach -- Knut Wicksell and Contemporary Political Economy / Richard E. Wagner -- Werner Sombart / Helge Peukert -- The Scientific Contributions of Heinrich von Stackelberg / Peter R. Senn -- Joseph Alois Schumpeter : The Economist of Rhetoric / Yuichi Shionoya -- Against Rigid Rules : Keynes's View on Monetary Policy and Economic Theory / Elke Muchlinski -- Keynes's "Long Struggle of Escape" / Royall Brandis -- John Maynard Keynes and the Theory of the Monetary Economy / Hans-Joachim Stadermann and Otto Steiger -- James Steuart and the Theory of the Monetary Economy / Hans-Joachim Stadermann and Otto Steiger -- Friedrich August Hayek / Gerrit Meijer
Summary 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 political appointees who have rather different incentives that might prevent them from choosing the best economic theory. In this book, the life and work of each of the founders of economics is examined by the best available expert on that founding figure. These contributors present rather novel and certainly not mainstream interpretations of the founders of modern economics. The primary theme concerns the development of economic thought as this emerged in the various continental traditions including the Islamic tradition. These continental traditions differed substantially, both substantively and methodologically, from the Anglo-Saxon orientation that has been dominant in the last century for example in the study of public finance or the very construct of the state itself. This books maps the various channels of continental economics, particularly from the late-18th through the early-20th centuries, explaining and demonstrating the underlying unity amid the surface diversity. In particular, the book emphasizes the writings of John Stuart Mill, his predecessor David Ricardo and his follower Jeremy Bentham; the theory of Marginalism by von Thünen, Cournot, and Gossen; the legacy of Karl Marx; the innovations in developmental economics by Friedrich List; the economic and monetary contributions and "struggle of escape" by John Maynard Keynes; the formidable theory in public finance and economics by Joseph Schumpeter; a reinterpretation of Alfred Marshall; Léon Walras, Heinrich von Stackelberg, Knut Wicksell, Werner Sombart, and Friedrich August von Hayek are each dealt with in their own right
Analysis Economics
Economics/Management Science
Methodology and the History of Economic Thought
Economic Theory
Political Science, general
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Economics -- Philosophy -- History -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Economics -- History -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Economists -- Biography
Economic history.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference.
Science économique.
Affaires.
Economic history
Economists
Economics
Economics -- Philosophy
Genre/Form handbooks.
Biographies
Handbooks and manuals
History
Handbooks and manuals.
Guides et manuels.
Form Electronic book
Author Backhaus, Jürgen G., 1950-
ISBN 9781441983367
1441983368