Adam's fallacy : a guide to economic theology /
Explains the core ideas of the great economists in layman terms, highlighting the economists whose ideas shaped economics on its abstract and more concrete levels.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
[2006]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- 1. Adam's vision. The division of labor
- The theory of value
- Capital accumulation
- The invisible hand and the state
- Smith's theory of money
- Adam's fallacy revisited
- 2. Gloomy science. Second thoughts
- Malthus and population
- The context of Malthus's Essay
- Malthus's postulates
- Malthusian logic
- Population and food since Malthus's time
- Ricardo and the limits to growth
- Ricardo's labor theory of value
- Accumulation and the stationary state
- Ricardo's views on machinery
- The political economy of poverty
- 3. The severest critic. Historical materialism
- The commodity and the theory of value
- Capitalist exploitation
- Accumulation and the falling rate of profit
- Primitive accumulation
- The transition to socialism
- Marx and proletarian revolution
- Marxist theory and social change
- 4. On the margins. Adam's fallacy needs new shoes
- Marginalism
- Where do prices come from?
- Marginalism and social welfare
- Marginalism and time
- Veblen and conspicuous consumption.
- 5. Voices in the air. John Maynard Keynes
- World capitalism in Keynes's time
- Say's law and laissez-faire
- Labor markets and unemployment
- Expectations and money
- The fate of capitalism
- Complexity vs. collectivism
- The prophet of technology
- 6. Grand illusions. Looking in the mirror
- Two-armed economists
- Escaping Adam's fallacy
- Face to face with Adam's curse
- Reading further
- Appendix
- Demographic equilibrium
- Theories of money and prices
- Ricardo's theory of rent and accumulation
- Decomposition of the value of commodities
- The working day
- Index.