A Companion To The History Of Economic Thought

by Samuels, Warren J.; Biddle, Jeff E.; Davis, John B.

• ISBN13: 9781405134590
• ISBN10: 1405134593
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-23
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Assembling contributions from top thinkers in the field, this Companion offers a comprehensive and sophisticated exploration of the history of economic thought. The volume has a threefold focus: the history of economic thought, the history of economics as a discipline, and the historiography of economic thought. The essays in the first part focus on the history of economic ideas, with topics ranging from ancient, medieval, and Islamic thought, to Marxian, Utopian, and postwar thought. The second part explores important historiographical topics, including the sociology of economics, methodology, exegesis, and textuality. Each essay serves as a complex introduction to the chosen topic, and gathered together they provide an extensive synthesis of the field as a whole. The volume is an essential resource for anyone researching or studying the history of economic thought, and will also serve as an excellent text for courses in this area.

Author Biography

Warren J. Samuels is Professor Emeritus, and former Director of Graduate Programs for the Economics Department at Michigan State University. He is former President of the History of Economics Society and former President of the Association for Social Economics. In 1997 he was made Distinguished Fellow, History of Economics Society. Professor Samuels was Editor of the Journal of Economic Issues and is presently Co-editor of the Journal of Income Distribution. He has been on the Editorial Boards of 16 journals, has written or edited over 40 books, and is widely published in top journals.

Jeff E. Biddle is Professor of Economics at Michigan State University. He is widely published in the field of history of economic thought in such journals as The History of Political Economy, Journal of Labor Economics, and American Economic Review.

John B. Davis is Professor of Economics at Marquette University, and is former President of the History of Economics Society. Professor Davis specializes in history of economic thought and is renowned for his work on John Maynard Keynes. Recently he was a visiting fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge, UK where he conducted research on Keynes' unpublished manuscripts. Davis is Editor of the Review of Social Economy and his research has been published in The Economic Journal, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Journal of Post-Keynesian Economics, and The History of Political Economics.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. ix
List of Tables	p. x
List of Contributors	p. xi
Preface	p. xv
Research Styles in the History of Economic Thought	p. 1
Historical Surveys
Ancient and Medieval Economics	p. 11
Contributions of Medieval Muslim Scholars to the History of Economics and their Impact: A Refutation of the Schumpeterian Great Gap	p. 28
Mercantilism	p. 46
Physiocracy and French Pre-Classical Political Economy	p. 61
Pre-Classical Economics in Britain	p. 78
Adam Smith (1723-1790): Theories of Political Economy	p. 94
Classical Economics	p. 112
Post-Ricardian British Economics, 1830-1870	p. 130
Karl Marx: His Work and the Major Changes in its Interpretation	p. 148
The Surplus Interpretation of the Classical Economists	p. 167
Non-Marxian Socialism	p. 184
Utopian Economics	p. 201
Historical Schools of Economics: German and English	p. 215
American Economics to 1900	p. 231
English Marginalism: Jevons, Marshall, and Pigou	p. 246
The Austrian Marginalists: Menger, Bohm-Bawerk, and Wieser	p. 252
Early General Equilibrium Economics: Walras, Pareto, and Cassel	p. 278
The "First" Imperfect Competition Revolution	p. 294
The Stabilization of Price Theory, 1920-1955	p. 308
Interwar Monetary and Business Cycle Theory; Macroeconomics before Keynes	p. 325
Keynes and the Cambridge School	p. 343
American Institutional Economics in the Interwar Period	p. 360
Postwar Neoclassical Microeconomics	p. 377
The Formalist Revolution of the 1950s	p. 395
A History of Postwar Monetary Economics and Macroeconomics	p. 411
The Economic Role of Government in the History of Economic Thought	p. 428
Postwar Heterodox Economics	p. 445
The Austrian School of Economics: 1950-2000	p. 445
Feminist Economics	p. 454
Institutional Economics	p. 462
Post Keynesian Economics	p. 471
Radical Political Economy	p. 479
Historiography
Historiography	p. 491
The Sociology of Economics and Scientific Knowledge, and the History of Economic Thought	p. 507
Exegesis, Hermeneutics, and Interpretation	p. 523
Textuality and the History of Economics: Intention and Meaning	p. 538
Mathematical Modeling as an Exegetical Tool: Rational Reconstruction	p. 553
Economic Methodology since Kuhn	p. 571
Biography and the History of Economics	p. 588
Economics and Economists in the Policy Process	p. 606
The International Diffusion of Economic Thought	p. 622
The History of Ideas and Economics	p. 634
Research in the History of Economic Thought as a Vehicle for the Defense and Criticism of Orthodox Economics	p. 655
Name Index	p. 669
Subject Index	p. 688
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