| Edition |
Third edition. |
| Description |
xxiv, 579 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Economic ideas before Adam Smith -- Adam Smith -- Thomas Robert Malthus -- David Ricardo -- Rationalistic subjectivism: the economics of Bentham, Say, and Senior -- Political economy of the poor: the ideas of William Thompson and Thomas Hodgskin -- Pure versus eclectic utilitarianism: the writings of Bastiat and Mill -- Karl Marx -- The triumph of utilitarianism: the economics of Jevons, Menger, and Walras -- Neoclassical theories of the firm and income distribution: the writings of Marshall, Clark, and Böhm-Bawerk -- Thorstein Veblen -- Theories of imperialism: the writings of Hobson, Luxemburg, and Lenin -- Consummation, consecration, and destruction of the invisible hand: neoclassical welfare economics -- Neoclassical ideology and the myth of the self-adjusting market: the writings of John Maynard Keynes -- Annulment of the myth of the measurable productivity of capital: the writings of Piero Sraffa -- Contemporary economics I: the bifurcation of orthodoxy -- Contemporary economics II: institutionalism and post-Keynesianism -- Contemporary economics III: the revival of critical political economy. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 545-548) and index. |
| Subject |
Economics -- History.
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| Added Author |
Lautzenheiser, Mark, 1968-
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| ISBN |
9780765625984 hardcover alkaline paper |
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0765625989 hardcover alkaline paper |
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9780765625991 paperback alkaline paper |
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0765625997 paperback alkaline paper |
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