Development of economic analysis /Ingrid Hahne Rima.
- sixth edition.
- London ; New York : Routledge, (c)2001.
- 1 online resource (xiv, 585 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographies and index.
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; 1 Early masterworks as sources of economic thought; 2 The origins of analytical economics; 3 The transition to classical economics; 4 Physiocracy: the beginning of analytical economics; 5 Adam Smith: from moral philosophy to political economy; 6 Thomas Malthus and J.B. Say; 7 David Ricardo and William Nassau Senior; 8 Ricardo Senior and John Stuart; 9 Classical theory in review: from Quesnay to McCulloch; 10 Socialism, induction, and the forerunners of marginalism; 11 Karl Marx: an inquiry into the 'Law of Motion of the capitalist system. 12 'First-generation' marginalists: Jevons Walras and Menger13 'Second-generation' marginalists and the Austrian School; 14 Alfred Marshall and the neoclassical tradition; 15 Chamberlin, Robinson, and other price theorists; 16 The 'new' theory of welfare and consumer behavior; 17 Neoclassical monetary and business cycle theorists; 18 The dissent of American institutionalists; 19 The economics of planning; socialism without Marxism.
This textbook introduces students to the history of economic thought. It charts the development of economics from its establishment as an analytical discipline in the 18th century to the late 20th century.