The Canon in the History of Economics - Critical Essays

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: the canon in the history of economics and its critique Michalis Psalidopoulos 1. The Mediterranean trajectory of Aristotle's economic canon Louis Baeck 2. The idea of usury in Patriastic literature Thomas Moser 3. Self-interest as an acceptable mode of human behaviour Arlid Saether 4. Deconstructing the canonical view on Adam Smith: a new look at the principles of economics Jan Peil 5. The 'canonical' model of economic growth in the debate Between Ricardo and Malthus Terenzio Maccabelli 6. In defence of a traditional canon: a comparison of Ricardo and Rau Peter Rosner 7. Cracking the canon: William Stanley Jevons and the deconstruction of 'Ricardo' Bert Mosselmans 8. Who blushes at the name: John Kells Ingram and minor literature Terrence McDonough 9. In search of a canonical history of macroeconomics in the interwar period: Haberler's Prosperity and Depression revisited Mauro Boianovsky 10. Preobrazhensky and the theory of economic development Michalis Hatziprokopiou and Kostas Velentzas 11. Canon and heresy: religion as a way of telling the story of economics Albert Arouh 12. The neo-classical synthesis in the Netherlands: a demand and supply analysis Henk W. Plasmeijer and Evert Schoorl

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Michalis Psalidopoulos

Zusammenfassung

This book represents the first critical attempt to incorporate the question of the canon in the history of economics into contemporary scholarly debate. It discusses how the canon is formed, perpetuated, interpreted and re-interpreted.

Produktdetails

• Mitarbeit: Michalis Psalidopoulos (Herausgeber), Psalidopoulos Michalis (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Taylor and Francis
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 09.03.2000
• EAN: 9780415191548
• ISBN: 978-0-415-19154-8
• Seiten: 270
• Abmessung: 156 mm x 234 mm x 24 mm
• Gewicht: 660 g
• Illustration: Tabellen, schwarz-weiss
• Serie: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Wirtschaft > Allgemeines, Lexika; History of Ideas, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory, HISTORY / Social History, Economic theory & philosophy, Economic theory and philosophy