Development of Economic Analysis 7th Edition

by Rima; Ingrid H.

• ISBN13: 9780415772938
• ISBN10: 0415772931
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-02-20
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Now in its seventh edition, Ingrid Rima's classic textbook charts the development of economics from the classical age, through the middle ages, to the era of classical economics; from the twentieth century to the present day. This is the clearest, most readable guide to economic thought, encouraging students to examine the relevance of the discipline's history to contemporary theory.

Table of Contents

Preclassical Economics

Early Masterworks as a source of Economic Thought

The Origins of Analytic Economics

The Transition to Classical Economics

Classical Economics

Physiocracy: The Beginning of Analytical Economics

From Moral Philosophy to Political Economy

The Political Economy of Population Behaviour and Aggregate Demand

Economic Analysis of the Distributive Shares

Building on Ricardian Foundations

Classical Theory in Review

The Critics of Classicism

Socialism, Induction, and the Forerunners of Marginalism

An Inquiry into the "Law of Motion" of the Capitalist System

First-Generation Marginalists

Second-Generation Marginalists

The Neo-classical Tradition, 1980-1945

Alfred Marshall and the Neo-classical Tradition

Chamberlain, Robinson and Other Price Theorists

The "New" Theory of Welfare and Consumer Behavior

Neo-classical Monetary and business-Cycle Theorists

The Dissent form Neo-classicism, 1890-1945

The Dissent of American Institutionalists

The Economics of Planning: Socialism without Marxism

J. M. Keynes's Critique of the Mainstream Tradition

Keynes's Theory of Employment, Output and Income

Beyond High Theory

The Emergence of Econometrics as a Sister-Discipline of Economics

Neo-Keynesians, Neo-Walrasians and Monetarists

The Analytics of Economic Liberalism: The Theory of Choice

Competing Economic Paradigms

From Economic Heterodoxy to Pluralism and the Revival of Political Economy

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