Joseph A. Schumpeter: Historian of Economics: Perspectives on the History of Economic Thought

by Moss; Laurence S.

• ISBN13: 9780415133531
• ISBN10: 041513353X
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781134785292
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-08-02
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

Joseph A. Schumpter was one of the greates economists of the twentieth century. HisHistory of Economic Analysisis perhaps the greatest contribution to the history of economics, providing a magisterial account of the development of the subject from Ancient Greece to the mid- twentieth century. This book analyses his contribution to the history of economics, considers its lasting significance and assesses the current state of the field. Contributors include: Mark Perlman, University of Pittsburgh; Roger E. Backhouse, Wesleyan University; Bette Polkinghorn, California State University at Sacramento; Spencer J. Pack, Connecticut College; Steven Pressman, Monmouth College; Antonia Callari, Franklin and Marshall College; Peter J. Boettke and David L. Pychitko, both at SUNY-Oswego.

Table of Contents

Methods of Scholarship

Assessing the Reprinting of Schumpeter's History of Economic Analysis

Vision and Progress in Economic Thought: Schumpeter after Kuhn

Schumpeter's Treatment of Nonmainstream American Economics

Popularizers as Contributors to Economics: The Unappreciated Tribe

The Historiography of Economics: A Methodological Approach

The 'Great Gap' Thesis Revisited

The Inaccuracy of the Schumpeterian Great Gap Thesis: Economic Thought in Medieval Iran (Persia)

Ibn Khaldun's Political and Economic Realism

Maimonides on Property: Its Accumulation and Its Distribution

Al-Maqrizi's Book of Aiding the Nation by Investigating the Depression of 1403-6: Translation and Commentary

A Test of Schumpeter's Approach to Money: The Case of the Sixteenth-Century French Monetary Debate

Banks, Credit, and the Financial System in Schumpeter: An Interpretation

Themes of the Classical School

Adam Smith's Invisible/Visible Hand/Chain/Chaos

Jeremy Bentham on Private and Public Wages and Employment: The Civil Servants, the Poor, and the Indigent

What Schumpeter Saw in Quesnay's Model: How the Tableau Economique Is Not a General Equilibrium or Input-Output Model

Expanding the Frontiers

Commons and Veblen: Contrasting Ideas About Evolution

Mr. Boulding and the Austrians: Boulding's Contribution to Subjectivist Economics

Economics as a Patriarchal Discourse

The Synthesis

The Sociology of Science and Schumpeter's Ideology

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