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Author Foley, Duncan K., author.

Title Adam's fallacy : a guide to economic theology / Duncan K. Foley
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [2006]
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Description 1 online resource (xv, 265 pages)
Contents Preface -- 1. Adam's vision. The division of labor -- The theory of value -- Capital accumulation -- The invisible hand and the state -- Smith's theory of money -- Adam's fallacy revisited -- 2. Gloomy science. Second thoughts -- Malthus and population -- The context of Malthus's Essay -- Malthus's postulates -- Malthusian logic -- Population and food since Malthus's time -- Ricardo and the limits to growth -- Ricardo's labor theory of value -- Accumulation and the stationary state -- Ricardo's views on machinery -- The political economy of poverty -- 3. The severest critic. Historical materialism -- The commodity and the theory of value -- Capitalist exploitation -- Accumulation and the falling rate of profit -- Primitive accumulation -- The transition to socialism -- Marx and proletarian revolution -- Marxist theory and social change -- 4. On the margins. Adam's fallacy needs new shoes -- Marginalism -- Where do prices come from? -- Marginalism and social welfare -- Marginalism and time -- Veblen and conspicuous consumption
5. Voices in the air. John Maynard Keynes -- World capitalism in Keynes's time -- Say's law and laissez-faire -- Labor markets and unemployment -- Expectations and money -- The fate of capitalism -- Complexity vs. collectivism -- The prophet of technology -- 6. Grand illusions. Looking in the mirror -- Two-armed economists -- Escaping Adam's fallacy -- Face to face with Adam's curse -- Reading further -- Appendix -- Demographic equilibrium -- Theories of money and prices -- Ricardo's theory of rent and accumulation -- Decomposition of the value of commodities -- The working day -- Index
Summary Explains the core ideas of the great economists in layman terms, highlighting the economists whose ideas shaped economics on its abstract and more concrete levels
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Smith, Adam, 1723-1790. Inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations.
SUBJECT Smith, Adam Philosoph. swd
Inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations (Smith, Adam) fast
Subject Economics -- Philosophy
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Theory.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- General.
Economics -- Philosophy
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2006047227
ISBN 9780674027077
0674027078
9780674263529
0674263529