Sandmo, Agnar,

Economics evolving : a history of economic thought / Agnar Sandmo. - viii, 489 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A science and its history -- Before Adam Smith -- Adam Smith -- The classical school : Thomas Robert Malthus and David Ricardo -- Consolidation and innovation : John Stuart Mill -- Karl Marx as an economic theorist -- The forerunners of marginalism -- The marginalist revolution I : William Stanley Jevons and Carl Menger -- The marginalist revolution II : Léon Walras -- Alfred Marshall and partial equilibrium theory -- Equilibrium and welfare : Edgeworth, Pareto, and Pigou -- Interest and prices : Knut Wicksell and Irving Fisher -- New perspectives on markets and competition -- The great systems debate -- John Maynard Keynes and the Keynesian revolution -- Frisch, Haavelmo, and the birth of econometrics -- The modernization of economic theory in the postwar period -- Further developments in the postwar period -- Long-term trends and new perspectives.


Translated from the Norwegian.

0691140634 9780691140636 0691148422 9780691148427

2010018664


Economics.

HB75 / .S293165 2011

330.1