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Classical Economics.

In this unconvential and sharply written text Hollander introduces the work of Smith, Ricardo, and Mill, and, on specific topics, Malthus and Marx.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:	Libro Electrónico
Autor principal:	Hollander, Samuel
Formato:	Electrónico eBook
Idioma:	Inglés
Publicado:	Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1992.
Edición:	2nd ed.
Temas:	Classical school of economics. École classique d'économie politique. Classical school of economics
Acceso en línea:	Texto completo

Tabla de Contenidos:

Intro
Contents
Preface
1 Introduction
1.1 Why Study the History of Economics?
1.2 The Role of the Historian
1.3 On Method
1.4 Scope and Plan of the Present Work
Suggested Reading
2 The Precursors of Adam Smith: an Overview
2.1 Introduction
2.2 The Scholastic Tradition
2.3 The Mercantilists
2.4 Instances of Analytical Progress: Automatic Adjustment Mechanisms
2.5 The Eighteenth Century: Allocation Theory
2.6 The Eighteenth Century: Economic Growth
2.7 Summary and Conclusion
Suggested Reading
3 The Physiocrats
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Surplus and the 'Tableau Economique'
3.3 The Price Mechanism
3.4 Economic Growth
3.5 The Contribution of A.R.J. Turgot
3.6 General Overview and Analytical Significance
Suggested Reading
4 Smith on Value and Distribution
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Utility and Scarcity
4.3 Price Determination
4.4 The Labour Theory of Value
4.5 Variable-cost Conditions and the Dynamics of Consumption
4.6 The Theory of Distribution: Factor Productivity
4.7 Factor Supply: Land
4.8 Factor Supply: the Wage and Profit Structures
4.9 A Model of Value and Distribution
4.10 Conclusion
Suggested Reading
5 Ricardo on Value and Distribution
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Demand-Supply Analysis
5.3 Cost Price and Allocative Economics
5.4 Alternative Opportunities and the Inverse Wage-Profit Relation
5.5 Cost and Rent
5.6 Resource Allocation and Distribution
5.7 The Comparative-Cost Theory of Trade
5.8 The Measure of Value
5.9 Profits an 'Exploitation' Income?
5.10 The Inverse Relation a Truism'?
5.11 The Inverse Relation and the Monetary Mechanism
5.12 Summary and Conclusion
Suggested Reading
6 Mill on Value and Distribution
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Short-run Price Formation
6.3 Consumer Behaviour.
6.4 Demand-Supply Analysis, Cost Price and Profit Rate Equalization
6.5 The Adjustment Mechanism: an Elaboration
6.6 Variable-cost Conditions
6.7 Imperfect Competition
6.8 The Wage Structure
6.9 Derived Demand
6.10 International Values
6.11 The Fundamental Theorem on Distribution and Allocation Theory
6.12 Concluding Note
Suggested Reading
7 Smith on Capital, Employment and Growth
7.1 Introduction
7.2 The National Income Accounts
7.3 The Savings Process
7.4 Aggregate Employment Capacity
7.5 The Secular Pattern of Factor Demand and Supply
7.6 The Trend Path of Factor Returns
7.7 Economic Development: Technical Progress
7.8 Economic Development: Investment Priorities and Policy
7.9 Economic Development: Agriculture
7.10 Economic Development: the Place of Money
Suggested Reading
8 Ricardo on Capital, Employment and Growth
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Capital and Surplus
8.3 Capital Supply Conditions
8.4 'Demand for Commodities is not Demand for Labour'
8.5 Accumulation in Conditions of Labour Scarcity
8.6 Accumulation and Employment Capacity: the Problem of Machinery
8.7 Labour Supply Conditions
8.8 The Secular Pattern of the Wage and Profit Rates
8.9 Malthus and the Prudential Wage Path
8.10 The Secular Pattern of Class Distribution
Suggested Reading
9 Mill on Capital, Employment and Growth
9.1 Introduction
9.2 On Capital and Capital Maintenance
9.3 Net Investment: 'Demand for Commodities is not Demand for Labour'
9.4 On Machinery
9.5 The Wages Fund Theory and Economic Organization
9.6 The Wages Fund Theory: the Recantation Interpreted
9.7 The Wages Fund as Equilibrium Solution
9.8 'Statics' and 'Dynamics'
9.9 Capital Supply and Labour Supply Conditions
9.10 The Wage and Profit Paths
9.11 Applications to Contemporary Conditions.
9.12 The Stationary State
9.13 Concluding Note
Suggested Reading
10 Money and Banking: I
10.1 Introduction
10.2 J.B. Say and Ricardo and the Law of Markets
10.3 Malthus and Aggregate Demand
10.4 J.S. Mill and the Law of Markets
10.5 Trade Cycle, the Law of Markets and Secular Trend
10.6 Some New Implications for Policy
10.7 Money, Prices, Output and Interest: Ricardo
10.8 Money, Prices, Output and Interest: J.S. Mill
Suggested Reading
11 Money and Banking: II
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Smithian Banking Principles
11.3 The Gold Standard and Price Stability
11.4 Aspects of the 'Bullionist' Debates
11.5 Ricardo and the Return to Gold
11.6 Mill and the Banking-Currency Debate
11.7 Mill and Counter-cyclical Monetary Policy
11.8 Concluding Note
Suggested Reading
12 Smith on Method
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Scientific Method
12.3 History and the Self-Interest Axiom
12.4 The Uses of Economic Theory
12.5 Some Reactions to Smithian Method
Suggested Reading
13 Ricardo on Method
13.1 Introduction
13.2 The Scope of Economics
13.3 The Relativity of the Behavioural and Technological Axioms: Implications for Policy
13.4 'Strong Cases' Justified and the Rejection of Over-simplified Models
13.5 The Problem of the Short Run: the Policy Dilemma
13.6 Historical Prediction and Theory Confirmation
Suggested Reading
14 Mill on Method
14.1 Introduction
14.2 On Specialization
14.3 On 'Verification' and Model Improvement
14.4 The Scope of Economics
14.5 The Empirical Dimension in the Principles: Some Case Studies
14.6 Model Improvement
14.7 Conclusion
Suggested Reading
15 Classical Features in Marxian Economics
15.1 Introduction
15.2 Marxian Allocation Theory: the Transformation Problem
15.3 The Inverse Wage-Profit Relation.
15.4 The Rate of Surplus Value
15.5 The 'Scientific' Problem: Marx's Strategy
15.6 Marx and Malthusianism
15.7 The Falling Wage Trend
15.8 Labour Market Conditions and the Role of Population Pressure
15.9 The Industrial Reserve Army and Cyclical Wage Fluctuations
15.10 Inter-Sectoral Labour Movements
15.11 Marx's Objections to Orthodox Classicism Summarized
Suggested Reading
16 Some Intellectual Linkages
16.1 Introduction
16.2 Post-Ricardian Opinion on Value Theory
16.3 Post-Ricardian Opinion on Distribution Theory
16.4 Post-Ricardian Opinion on Secular Trends
16.5 The Inductivist Critics
16.6 Economics and Ideology
16.7 Ricardo and J.S. Mill
16.8 Mill and the Inductivists
16.9 Conclusion
Suggested Reading
17 Conclusion: the Classicists and After
17.1 Introduction
17.2 A Marginal 'Revolution'?
17.3 Classical Features in Walrasian Economics
17.4 On the Cambridge ('Neo-Ricardian') Version of Classicism
Suggested Reading
Appendix 1 The Sraffa Model
A1.1 Introduction
A1.2 The Subsistence Case
A1.3 Production with a Surplus
A1.4 On 'Basics' and 'Non-Basics'
A1.5 The Treatment of Labour
A1.6 The Impact of Changes in the Wage on Prices
A1.7 The Standard Commodity and Distribution
A1.8 The Choice of Independent Distributive Variable
A1.9 Reduction to Dated Labour
A1.10 Land Rent
A1.11 Tastes, Techniques and the Inverse Relation
A1.12 Concluding Note
Appendix 2 Dramatis Personae
Bibliography
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Classical Economics.

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