A concise history of economic thought : from mercantilism to monetarism / Gianni Vaggi and Peter Groenewegen.

Part I : Classical political economy, 1600-1870. Introduction : from mercantilism to Marx -- Seventeenth century pioneers. Thomas Mun, 1571-1641 : from bullion to foreign trade -- Dudley North, 1641-91 and John Locke, 1632-1704 : early critical reactions to mercantilism -- Sir William Petty, 1623-87 : division of labour and surplus -- Development in French economics. Pierre le Pesant Sieur de Boisguilbert, 1646-1714 : France at the turn of the century -- Richard Cantillon, 1697-1734 : the entrepreneur in agriculture and trade -- Towards a mature classical political economy. François Quesnay, 1694-1774 : reproduction and capital -- David Hume, 1711-76 and the Scottish enlightenment -- Ferdinando Galiani, 1728-87 and Sir James Steuart, 1713-80 : real value and corn trade -- Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, 1727-81 : investments and returns -- The first full systems of classical political economy. Adam Smith, 1723-90 : national wealth and the productivity of labour -- Jean-Baptiste Say, 1767-1832 and Jean-Charles Simonde de Sismondi, 1779-1842 : value, revenues and crises -- The 'golden age' of classical political economy. Thomas Robert Malthus, 1766-1834 : population and effectual demand -- David Ricardo, 1772-1823 : the rate of profit -- Torrens, senior and the aftermath of Ricardo -- Karl Marx, 1818-83 : the critique of political economy -- Part II : Modern developments, 1870-1960. Introduction : the coming of marginalism and macro-economics -- The first generation. John Stuart Mill, 1806-73 : a figure of transition -- William Stanley Jevons, 1835-82 : utilitarianism and economics -- Carl Menger, 1840-19321 : the importance of marginal utility and the economics of scarcity -- Léon Walras, 1834-1910 : the notion of general equilibrium -- Alfred Marshall, 1842-1924 : partial equilibrium and useful economics -- The development of marginalist economics : distribution and capital theory. J.B. Clark and P.H. Wicksteed : the development of marginal productivity theory -- Von Wieser and Böhm-Bawerk : Austrian versions of capital and distribution theory -- Pioneers of macro-economics. Knut Wicksell, 1851-1926 : interest and prices -- Irving Fisher, 1867-1947 : appreciation and interest -- Joseph Alois Schumpeter, 1883-1950 : economic development -- Further developments in micro-economics. Pigou, Clapham and Sraffa : wealth, welfare and cost controversies -- Joan Robinson, 1903-83 and Edward Chamberlain, 1899-1967 : theory of the firm -- Vilfred Pareto, 1848-1923 and Lionel Robbins, 1898-1984 : critique and decline of utility theory -- The foundations of modern macro-economics. John Maynard Keynes, 1883-1946 : a new general theory of employment, interest and money -- Michal Kalecki, 1898-1970 : a new macro-economics -- R.F. Harrod, 1900-78 and E.D. Domar (1914-99) : cycles and growth -- Milton Friedman (1912-2006) : monetarism and its critics.

"Gianni Vaggi and Peter Groenewegen present a brief history of economic thought over three centuries. They sketch the history form the seventeenth century to the present day. Each chapter examines the key contributions of a major economist, or group of economists, and concludes with brief suggestions for further reading. The economists covered include Keynes, Marshall, Petty and Jevons, as well as less familiar theorists such as Galiani and Turgot." -- Back cover

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