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Author Schabas, Margaret, 1954-

Title The natural origins of economics / Margaret Schabas.

Publication Info. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2005]
©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 231 pages)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-206) and index.
Contents Before "the economy" -- Related themes in the natural sciences -- French economics in the enlightenment -- Hume's political economy -- Smith's debts to nature -- Classical political economy in its heyday -- Mill and the early neoclassical economists -- Denaturalizing the economic order.
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Summary Here the author traces the emergence and transformation of economics in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries from a natural to a social science. Focusing on the works of several prominent economists, she locates the evolution of economic ideas within the history of science.
Subject Economics.
Science.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Theory.
Economics. (OCoLC)fst00902116
Science. (OCoLC)fst01108176
Economische filosofie.
Other Form: Print version: Schabas, Margaret, 1954- Natural origins of economics. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2005 (DLC) 2005014061
ISBN 9780226735719 (electronic bk.)
0226735710 (electronic bk.)
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