The natural origins of economics / Margaret Schabas.

By:

Schabas, Margaret, 1954- [author.]

Material type: Text

text

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

0226735699
9780226735696

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DDC classification:

330.1 22

LOC classification:

HB74.S35 S33 2005

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Contributor biographical information

Contents:

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.

Review: "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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-206) and index.

"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.

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