Evolution of economic thought /
Stanley L. Brue
- Sixth edition
- xiv, 568 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- The Dryden Press series in economics .
Includes index.
1 Introduction and overview. -- 2 The merchantilist school. -- 3 The physiocratic school. -- 4 The classical school-Forerunners. -- 5 The classical school-Adam Smith. -- 6 The classical school-Thomas Malthus. -- 7 The classical school-David Ricardo. -- 8 The classical school-Bentham, Say, Senior and Mill. -- 9 The rise of socialist thought. -- 10 Marxian socialism. -- 11 The German historical school. -- 12 The marginalist school-Forerunners. -- 13 The marginalist school-Jevons, Menger, Von Wieser, and Von Bohm-Bawerk. -- 14 The marginalist school-Edgeworth and Clark.-15 The neoclassical school-Alfred Marshall. -- 16 The neoclassical school -- monetary economics. -- 17 The neoclassical school-the departure from pure competition. -- 18 Mathematical economics. -- 19 The institutionalist school. -- 20 Welfare economics. -- 21 The Keynesian school-John Maynard Keynes. -- 22 The Keynesian school-developments since Keynes. -- 23 Theories of economic growth and development. -- 24 The Chicago school-The new classicism. -- 25 Concluding thought.
Presenting the history of economics and the philosophies that drive the economic way of thinking, "The Evolution of Economic Thought" stresses the importance of understanding contemporary economics by grasping new ideas, evidence, problems and values that call for reconsideration of basic disputes and major contributions of the.