Notable selections in economics
This text, designed to expose students to the essential ideas, theories, and scholars in the field, contains more than 40 classic articles, book excerpts, and research studies that have shaped the field of economics.
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Guilford, CT
Dushkin/McGraw Hill
2000
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Table of Contents:
- Part one. The mercantilist, physiocratic, and classical schools:
- 1. The mercantilist school:
- 1.1. From England's treasure by forraign trade / Thomas Mun
- 1.2. From A treatise of taxes and contributions / William Petty
- 2. The physiocratic school:
- 2.1. From Quesnay's tableau économique / François Quesnay ; ed. and trans. Marguerite Kuczynski and Ronald L. Meek
- 2.2. From Reflections on the formation and distribution of wealth / Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot
- 3. The classical school:
- 3.1. From Essays : moral, political, and literary / David Hume ; ed. Eugene F. Miller
- 3.2. From An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations / Adam Smith ; ed. Edwin Cannan
- 3.3. From An essay on the principle of population / Thomas Robert Malthus ; ed. Philip Appleman
- 3.4. From The principles of political economy and taxation / David Ricardo
- 3.5. From A treatise on political economy, or The production, distribution, and consumption of wealth / Jean-Baptiste Say
- 3.6. From Principles of political economy / John Stuart Mill ; ed. William Ashley
- Part two. The Marxian, neoclassical, libertarian, and Chicago schools:
- 4. The Marxian school:
- 4.1. From Capital : a critique of political economy. Vol. 1 / Karl Marx ; trans. Ben Fowkes
- 4.2. From The origin of the family, private property and the state / Friedich Engels
- 5. The neoclassical school:
- 5.1. From Principles of economics / Alfred Marshall
- 5.2. From The theory of interest as determined by impatience to spend income and opportunity to invest it / Irving Fisher
- 5.3. From The rate of interest and other essays / Joan Robinson
- 6. The libertarian school:
- 6.1. From Principles of economics / Carl Menger ; trans. and ed. James Dingwall and Bert F. Hoselitz
- 6.2. From "Brief account of a general mathematical theory of political economy" / William Stanley Jevons
- 6.3. From Prices and production / Friedrich A. Hayek
- 7. The Chicago school:
- 7.1. From Risk, uncertainty and profit / Frank H. Knight
- 7.2. From A monetary history of the United States, 1867-1960 / Milton Friedman and Anna Jacobson Schwartz
- 7.3. From Human capital : a theoretical and empirical analysis, with special reference to education / Gary S. Becker
- 7.4. From The citizen and the state : essays on regulation / George J. Stigler
- Part three. The Keynesian and insitutionalist schools:
- 8. The Keynesian school:
- 8.1. From The general theory of employment, interest, and money / John Maynard Keynes
- 8.2. From A guide to Keynes / Alvin H. Hansen
- 8.3. From Essays in economics : national and international / James Tobin
- 9. The institutionalist school:
- 9.1. From The theory of business enterprise / Thorstein Veblen
- 9.2. From The affluent society / John Kenneth Galbraith
- Part four. Welfare, trade economics, and growth and development:
- 10. Welfare economics and economic decision making:
- 10.1. From Vilfredo Pareto : selections from his treatise / Vilfredo Pareto
- 10.2. From Socialism versus capitalism / A.C. Pigou
- 10.3. From The economics and the ethics of constitutional order / James M. Buchanan
- 10.4. From Knowledge and decisions / Thomas Sowell
- 11. Trade economics in the 1950s:
- 11.1. From The theory of customs unions / James E. Meade
- 11.2. From Heckscher-Ohlin trade theory / Eli F. Heckscher and Bertil Ohlin ; trans. and ed. Harry Flam and M. June Flanders
- 12. Economics of growth and development:
- 12.1. From essays on entrepreneurs, innovations, business cycles, and the evolution of capitalism / Joseph A. Schumpeter ; ed. Richard V. Clemence
- 12.2. From Without consent or contract : the rise and fall of American slavery / Robert William Fogel
- 12.3. From Institutions, institutional change and economics performance / Douglass C. North
- 12.4. From Legal foundations of capitalism / John R. Commons
- 12.5. From Economic development, the family, and income distribution : selected essays / Simon Kuznets
- 12.6. From Asian drama : an inquiry into the poverty of nations / Gunnar Myrdal
- 12.7. From The theory of economic growth / W. Arthur Lewis
- 12.8. From Investment in human capital : the role of education and of research / Theodore W. Schultz.