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Informationen zum Autor Steven G. Medema is a Professor of Economics at the University of Colorado at Denver. He is also Editor of Historians of Economics and Economic Thought and Economics Broadly Considered also published by Routledge. Warren J. Samuels was Professor Emeritus of Economics at Michigan State University, USA. He was the author of a host of classic books on the history of economic thought including The Classical Theory of Economic Policy and Pareto on Policy . He died in August 2011. Klappentext Revision of: History of economic thought / Lionel Robbins -- Princeton! N.J.: Princeton University Press! 1998. Zusammenfassung From the ancients to the moderns, questions of economic theory and policy have been an important part of intellectual and public debate, engaging the attention of some of history’s greatest minds. This book brings together readings from more than two thousand years of writings on economic subjects. Through these selections, the reader can see first-hand how the great minds of past grappled with some of the central social and economic issues of their times and, in the process, enhanced our understanding of how economic systems function. This collection of readings covers the major themes that have preoccupied economic thinkers throughout the ages, including price determination and the underpinnings of the market system, monetary theory and policy, international trade and finance, income distribution, and the appropriate role for government within the economic system. These ideas unfold, develop, and change course over time at the hands of scholars such as Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas, John Locke, François Quesnay, David Hume, Adam Smith, Thomas Robert Malthus, David Ricardo, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, William Stanley Jevons, Alfred Marshall, Irving Fisher, Thorstein Veblen, John Maynard Keynes, Milton Friedman, and Paul Samuelson. Each reading has been selected with a view to both enlightening the reader as to the major contributions of the author in question and to giving the reader a broad view of the development of economic thought and analysis over time. This book will be useful for students, scholars, and lay people with an interest in the history of economic thought and the history of ideas generally. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface I. Pre-Classical Thought 1. Introduction 2. Aristotle, Politics and Ethics (300s B.C.) 3. St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica (1267-73) 4. Thomas Mun, England’s Treasure by Foreign Trade (1664) 5. Sir William Petty, A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions (1662) 6. John Locke, Two Treatises of Government (1690) and Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest, and Raising the Value of Money (1691) 7. Richard Cantillon, Essai sur la Nature du Commerce en Generale (1755) 8. Francois Quesnay, Tableau Economique (1758) 9. Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth (1770) 10. Bernard Mandeville, Fable of the Bees (1732) II. The Classical School 10. Introduction 11. David Hume, Political Discourses (on money, interest, and the balance of trade) (1752) 12. Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (1776) 13. Jeremy Bentham, An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789), Manual of Political Economy (1795), Anarchical Fallacies (1795), Principles of the Civil Code (1802) 14. Thomas Malthus, Essay on Population (1798) 15. Henry Thornton, Paper Credit (1802) 16. David Ricardo, The High Price of Bullion (1810) 17. Jean Baptiste Say, A Treatise on Political Economy (1803) 18. David Ricardo, Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (181...
