The natural origins of economics /
Schabas, Margaret, 1954-
The natural origins of economics / Margaret Schabas. - xi, 231 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-206) and index.
Before "the economy" -- Related themes in the natural sciences -- French economics in the enlightenment -- Hume's political economy -- Smith's debts to nature -- Classical political economy in its heyday -- Mill and the early neoclassical economists -- Denaturalizing the economic order.
"In The Natural Origins of Economics, Margaret Schabas traces the emergence and transformation of economics in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries from a natural to a social science. Focusing on the works of several prominent economists - David Hume, Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus, David Ricardo, and John Stuart Mill - Schabas examines their conceptual debt to natural science and thus locates the evolution of economic ideas within the history of science."--Jacket.
0226735699 9780226735696
2005014061
Economics.
Science.
HB74.S35 / S33 2005
330.1
The natural origins of economics / Margaret Schabas. - xi, 231 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-206) and index.
Before "the economy" -- Related themes in the natural sciences -- French economics in the enlightenment -- Hume's political economy -- Smith's debts to nature -- Classical political economy in its heyday -- Mill and the early neoclassical economists -- Denaturalizing the economic order.
"In The Natural Origins of Economics, Margaret Schabas traces the emergence and transformation of economics in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries from a natural to a social science. Focusing on the works of several prominent economists - David Hume, Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus, David Ricardo, and John Stuart Mill - Schabas examines their conceptual debt to natural science and thus locates the evolution of economic ideas within the history of science."--Jacket.
0226735699 9780226735696
2005014061
Economics.
Science.
HB74.S35 / S33 2005
330.1