TY  - BOOK
AU  - Backhouse,Roger
TI  - The ordinary business of life: a history of economics from the ancient world to the twenty-first century 
SN  - 0691096260
AV  - HB75. B33 2002
U1  - 330.09 
PY  - 2002///]
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Economics
KW  - History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-352) and index; 1; 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 --; 2; 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 --; 3; 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 --; 4; 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 --; 5; 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 --; 6; 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 --; 7; 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 --; 8; 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 --; 9; 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 --; 10; 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 --; 11; 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) --; 12; 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 --; 13; 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 --; 14; 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
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