A History of Economic Thought: From Aristotle to Arrow / Edition 1

by Charles Earl Staley

Overview

A History of Economic Thought is a text for undergraduate history of economic thought courses. It covers the major writers and schools of thought; in doing so, it reveals not only ideas, but relevant stories of the lives of the great economic thinkers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781557860316
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	01/08/1991
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.38(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Charles E. Staley has written extensively on international economics and the history of economic thought. Professor Staley studied economics as an undergraduate at the University of Kansas, where he later taught, and went on to receive a Ph. D from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he wrote his dissertation under Charles Kindleberger. He has been a visiting lecturer at the University of Edinburgh and has held Ford Foundation Faculty and Research Fellowship at Harvard.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction.

2. The Scholastics and the Mercantilists.

3. One Foot in the Mercantilist World and One in the Classical.

4. The Physiocrats.

5. Adam Smith.

6. Thomas R. Malthus.

7. David Ricardo, Classical Monetary Theory, and Say's Law.

8. David Ricardo's Principles of Political Economy.

9. Classical Economics From Ricardo to Mill's Principles.

10. John Stuart Mill.

11. Marx and Engels.

12. Precursors of the Marginal Revolution.

13. Carl Menger and the Austrian School.

14. William Stanley Jevons and the Marginal Revolution.

15. Leon Walras.

16. Alfred Marshall.

17. American Economics: Benjamin Franklin to Irving Fisher.

18. The Monopolistic Competition Revolution.

19. John Maynard Keynes.

20. Modern Times: Macroeconomics.

21. Modern Times: Econometrics and Microeconomics

Editorial Reviews

"Staley's goal is above all to show the student that economic thought has a fascinating history, and he has succeeded well." The Economic Journal

"One of the best undergraduate textbooks on the history of economics to have appeared in the last few years." Mark Blaug, University of London

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