Robbins / Medema / Samuels A History of Economic Thought

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Robbins, Lionel

Medema, Steven G.

Samuels, Warren J.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Baumol, William J.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Foreword

Introduction

A Anticipations 3

Lecture 1 Introduction - Plato 5

Lecture 2 Plato and Aristotle 16

Lecture 3 Aquinas and the Scholastics 26

Lecture 4 Pamphleteers - Money (Oresme, Bodin, "W.S.") 35

Lecture 5 Pamphleteers - Mercantilism (Malynes, Misselden, Mun) 46

Lecture 6 Sir William Petty 55

Lecture 7 Child and Locke (Interest) 66

B Emergence of Systems 75

Lecture 8 Cantillon 77

Lecture 9 Cantillon (cont.) - Physiocracy 86

Lecture 10 Physiocrats - Turgot 95

Lecture 11 Locke and Hume on Property - Hume on Money 104

Lecture 12 Hume on Interest and Trade - Precursors of Adam Smith 114

Lecture 13 General Survey of Smith's Intentions - The Wealth of Nations: Analytical (I) 125

Lecture 14 The Wealth of Nations: Analytical (II) 133

Lecture 15 The Wealth of Nations: Analytical (III) - Policy (I) 143

Lecture 16 The Wealth of Nations: Policy (II) 153

C Nineteenth-Century Classicism 165

Lecture 17 General Review - Malthus on Population 167

Lecture 18 Value and Distribution: Historical Origin - Analytical (I) 176

Lecture 19 Value and Distribution: Analytical (II) 185

Lecture 20 Value and Distribution: Analytical (III) 192

Lecture 21 Overall Equilibrium 201

Lecture 22 International Trade 210

Lecture 23 John Stuart Mill 219

D Other Mid-Nineteenth-Century Thought 229

Lecture 24 Mill (cont.) - Saint-Simon and Marx 231

Lecture 25 Marx (cont.) - List and the Historical School 238

E Beginnings of Modern Analysis 247

Lecture 26 The Historical School (cont.) - Precursors of Change: Cournot, von Thunen, and Rae 249

Lecture 27 The Marginal Revolution (I): Jevons 258

Lecture 28 The Marginal Revolution (II): Jevons and Menger 268

Lecture 29 The Marginal Revolution (III): Costs (Wieser) - The Pricing of Factor Services (Wieser, Clark, Wicksteed) 277

Lecture 30 Capital Theory: Bohm-Bawerk and Fisher 285

Lecture 31 Walras - Pareto 295

Lecture 32 Marshall 303

Lecture 33 Money: Fisher, Marshall, Wicksell 312

App. A Robbins' Reading List 321

App. B Robbins' Writings in the History of Economic Thought 331

References 337

Index 355

Über Autor(innen)

Lionel Robbins taught at the London School of Economics from 1929 to 1961, directed the economic section of the British War Cabinet during World War II, and served as Chairman of the Financial Times from 1961 until 1970. His best known work is An Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science. He became a life peer in 1959 and a Companion of Honour in 1968. Steven G. Medema is Professor of Economics at the University of Colorado at Denver. He is the editor of the Journal of the History of Economic Thought, author of Ronald H. Coase, and the coauthor, with Nicholas Mercuro, of Economics and the Law (Princeton). Warren J. Samuels is Professor of Economics at Michigan State University. He is the author of The Classical Theory of Economic Policy and The Economy as a Process of Valuation and coedits Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology with Jeff E. Biddle.