Social perspectives in the history of economic theory / by Everett Johnson Burtt, Jr.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1972.Description: 297 pages : tables ; 24 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330.1/09
LOC classification:
  • HB 75 .B84 1972
Contents:
i. Sources of controversy in economic theory - ii. Natural-law economics: From Petty to Quesnay - iii. The economics of individualism: Adam Smith - iv. The political economics of the new capitalism: Ricardo vs. Malthus - v. Classical economics and distributive justice: John Stuart Mill - vi. Capitalism as an exploitative and transitory system: The economics of Karl Marx - vii. Subjective economics and the conservative reaction: Menger and the Austrian School -viii. Economic and moral well-being: Marshall's neoclassical economics - ix. The necessity of government intervention: The Keynesian heresy - x. The political nature of economic welfare: From Walras to Pareto -- Postscript: The significance of controversy -- Index.
Summary: "This book is designed to introduce the student of economics and economic theory to the leading economists from the late seventeenth century to the 1930s, men whose theories form part of a rich and complex heritage of economic thought." -- [From the preface]
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Contains index.

i. Sources of controversy in economic theory - ii. Natural-law economics: From Petty to Quesnay - iii. The economics of individualism: Adam Smith - iv. The political economics of the new capitalism: Ricardo vs. Malthus - v. Classical economics and distributive justice: John Stuart Mill - vi. Capitalism as an exploitative and transitory system: The economics of Karl Marx - vii. Subjective economics and the conservative reaction: Menger and the Austrian School -viii. Economic and moral well-being: Marshall's neoclassical economics - ix. The necessity of government intervention: The Keynesian heresy - x. The political nature of economic welfare: From Walras to Pareto -- Postscript: The significance of controversy -- Index.

"This book is designed to introduce the student of economics and economic theory to the leading economists from the late seventeenth century to the 1930s, men whose theories form part of a rich and complex heritage of economic thought." -- [From the preface]

Donated by Karl H. and Elizabeth H. Niebyl.

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