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1 online resource (329 pages) |
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Routledge Revivals |
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Routledge revivals.
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| Contents |
Cover; Routledge Revivals Economic Studies; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part 1 Origins of economic science; 1 The science of wealth; I Wealth; II Value; III Capital; 2 Adam Smith: Division of labor, capital, and exchange; I Preface: The construction of the Wealth of Nations; II Division of labor and capital; III Exchange and division of labor; IV The labor theory of value; V Smith and Ricardo; 3 David Ricardo: Value and capital; I Introduction; II The development of Ricardo's theory of value; III Value and capital; 4 The world of capital |
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I Nature and capitalII The self-expansion of capital; III The direct production process and the process of capitalist production as a whole; IV The competition of capitals; V The world of capital and the state; 5 The specificity of classical political economy; I The social determination of production; II Value and exchange-value; III Classical and modern economics; Part 2 The character of contemporary economic thought; 6 The allocation of resources; I Exchange; II Capital; 7 Problems in the theory of production; I The laws of returns and the theory of price; II The factors of production |
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8 Foundations of macroeconomicsI Competitive price: the individual producer-consumer and the firm; II The foundations of the theory of the firm; III Origins of macroeconomics; IV The labor theory of value; 9 Economy and society; I The ends of economic activity; II The rationality of the social world; III Reason and freedom: formal rationality and economic action; IV Economy and society; Notes; Index |
| Summary |
First published in 1977, David Levine's Economic Studies offers a critique and reconstruction of the theoretical conception of economic life. The premise of the study is that only an investigation of the system of elementary economic relations - value, capital, production - can overcome the confusion and misdirection which baffles progress in all areas of economic theory, and lay the foundation for further development of economic science. Levine discusses both the origins of economic science and the character of contemporary economic thought. He presents a critique of the ideas of classical |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Economics.
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Economics -- History.
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economics.
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Economics
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136721229 |
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1136721223 |
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