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Author Barbour, Samuel

Title A History of American Economic Thought : Mainstream and Crosscurrents
Published London : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (271 pages)
Series The Routledge History of Economic Thought
Routledge history of economic thought series.
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1. Setting the table -- Introduction -- Who is an American economist? -- The number of American economists and the scope of their discipline -- American economists: their philosophical leanings and political preferences -- Why is English the language of American economics? -- Why culture and language matter -- References -- 2. Economic thought among American Aboriginals prior to European contact -- Introduction
Intellectual history without documentsMaterial conditions -- The economic mind of American aboriginals prior to 1492 -- Two case studies: Cahokia and the Iroquois -- References -- 3. Economic thought in Americaâ#x80;#x99;s protohistorical period -- Introduction -- Knowledge, ideas, influence, and protohistory -- Puritan economic thought -- Other voices -- References -- 4. Economic thought in eighteenth-century America prior to independence -- Introduction -- Economic, social, and political conditions, 1700â#x80;#x93;1775 -- Eighteenth-century American economics
Other voicesA crosscurrent -- References -- 5. Economic thought in the new nation, 1776â#x80;#x93;1885 -- Introduction -- Economic, social, and political conditions, 1776â#x80;#x93;1886 -- Economic thought in the nineteenth century -- Other voices -- Crosscurrents -- References -- 6. Economic thought in an era of abundance and anxiety, 1886â#x80;#x93;1928 -- Introduction -- Economic, social, and political conditions -- Mainstream -- Other voices -- Crosscurrents -- References
7. Economic thought from the Great Depression through the golden age of economic growth, 1929â#x80;#x93;1973Introduction -- Economic, social, political conditions -- The mainstream -- Other voices -- Crosscurrents -- References -- 8. Economic thought from stagflation and sustained growth to the Great Recession and beyond, 1974â#x80;#x93;2017 -- Introduction -- Economic, social, and political conditions -- The mainstream -- Other voices -- Crosscurrents -- Economics in the United States in 2016 and beyond -- References -- Name index
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Subject Economics -- United States -- History
Economics
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Cicarelli, James
King, J. E
Antler, Steven
ISBN 9781351703604
1351703609