The ordinary business of life : a history of economics from the ancient world to the twenty-first century /
Roger E. Backhouse.
- ix, 368 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-352) and index.
The Ancient World. Homer and Hesiod. Estate Management - Xenophon's Oikonomikos. Plato's Ideal State. Aristotle on Justice and Exchange. Aristotle and the Acquisition of Wealth. Rome -- The Middle Ages. The Decline of Rome. Judaism. Early Christianity. Islam. From Charles Martel to the Black Death. The Twelfth-Century Renaissance and Economics in the Universities. Nicole Oresme and the Theory of Money -- The Emergence of the Modern World View - the Sixteenth Century. The Renaissance and the Emergence of Modern Science. The Reformation. The Rise of the European Nation State. Mercantilism. Machiavelli. The School of Salamanca and American Treasure. England under the Tudors. Economics in the Sixteenth Century -- Science, Politics and Trade in Seventeenth-Century England. Background. Science and the Scientists of the Royal Society. Political Ferment. Economic Problems - Dutch Commercial Power and the Crisis of the 1620s. The Balance-of-Trade Doctrine. The Rate of Interest and the Case for Free Trade. The Recoinage Crisis of the 1690s. Economics in Seventeenth-Century England -- Absolutism and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century France. Problems of the Absolute State. Early-Eighteenth-Century Critics of Mercantilism. Cantillon on the Nature of Commerce in General. The Enlightenment. Physiocracy. Turgot. Economic Thought under the Ancien Regime -- The Scottish Enlightenment of the Eighteenth Century. Background. Hutcheson. Hume. Sir James Steuart. Adam Smith. Division of Labour and the Market. Capital Accumulation. Smith and Laissez-Faire. Economic Thought at the End of the Eighteenth Century -- Classical Political Economy, 1790-1870. From Moral Philosophy to Political Economy. Utilitarianism and the Philosophic Radicals. Ricardian Economics. Alternatives to Ricardian Economics. Government Policy and the Role of the State. Money. John Stuart Mill. Karl Marx -- The Split between History and Theory in Europe, 1870-1914. The Professionalization of Economics. Jevons, Walras and Mathematical Economics. Economics in Germany and Austria. Historical Economics and the Marshallian School in Britain. European Economic Theory, 1900-1914 -- The Rise of American Economics, 1870-1939. US Economics in the Late Nineteenth Century. John Bates Clark. Mathematical Economics. Thorstein Veblen. John R. Commons. Inter-War Pluralism. Inter-War Studies of Competition. The Migration of European Academics. US Economics in the Mid Twentieth Century -- Money and the Business Cycle, 1898-1939. Wicksell's Cumulative Process. The Changed Economic Environment. Austrian and Swedish Theories of the Business Cycle. Britain: From Marshall to Keynes. The American Tradition. Keynes's General Theory. The Keynesian Revolution. The Transition from Inter-War to Post-Second World War Macroeconomics -- Econometrics and Mathematical Economics, 1930 to the Present. The Mathematization of Economics. The Revolution in National-Income Accounting. The Econometric Society and the Origins of Modern Econometrics. Frisch, Tinbergen and the Cowles Commission. The Second World War. General-Equilibrium Theory. Game Theory. The Mathematization of Economics (Again) -- Welfare Economics and Socialism, 1870 to the Present. Socialism and Marginalism. The State and Social Welfare. The Lausanne School. The Socialist-Calculation Debate. Welfare Economics, 1930-1960. Market Failure and Government Failure -- Economists and Policy, 1939 to the Present. The Expanding Role of the Economics Profession. Keynesian Economics and Macroeconomic Planning. Inflation and Monetarism. The New Classical Macroeconomics. Development Economics -- Expanding the Discipline, 1960 to the Present. Applied Economics. Economic Imperialism. Heterodox Economics. New Concepts and New Techniques. Economics in the Twentieth Century. Epilogue: Economists and Their History. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14.