TY  - BOOK
AU  - Creedy,John
AU  - O'Brien,D.P.
AU  - Backhouse,Roger
TI  - From classical economics to the theory of the firm: essays in honour of D.P. O'Brien 
SN  - 1840641460
AV  - HB103.O25 F76 1999
U1  - 330 
PY  - 1999///]
CY  - Cheltenham
PB  - E. Elgar
KW  - O'Brien, D. P.
KW  - Economists
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Classical school of economics
KW  - Money
KW  - Microeconomics
KW  - Festschriften
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Foreword / R. D. Collison Black. 1. Introduction: Denis O'Brien's contribution to economics and the history of economic thought / Roger E. Backhouse and John Creedy -- App. publications of D.P. O'Brien, FBA -- Pt. I. Monetary Economics. 2. Historical origins of the cost-push fallacy / Thomas M. Humphrey. 3. The classical theory of commodity money under a microscope / Paul A. Samuelson. 4. Pre-war developments in portfolio theory / Ivo Maes, Paul Mizen and John R. Presley -- Pt. II. Classical Economics. 5. Does luxury consumption promote growth? / Walter Eltis. 6. Adam Smith and Physiocracy / Andrew S. Skinner. 7. Adam Smith on classes and saving / Anthony Brewer -- Pt. III. Marshall and Microeconomics. 8. The generational contract in classical and neoclassical economic thought / David Collard. 9. The theory of exchange in retrospect / John Creedy. 10. Marshall's theory of the firm / Brian J. Loasby. 11. Marshall on marketing / Mark Casson -- Pt. IV. Methodology --; 12. Institutionalism as 'scientific' economics / Malcolm Rutherford. 13. Adam Smith and general equilibrium theory / Terence Hutchison. 14. The formalist revolution or what happened to orthodox economics after World War II? / Mark Blaug. 15. Modelling invention: the use of models in the neoclassical literature on R&D / Roger E. Backhouse
ER  -