Adam's fallacy : a guide to economic theology /

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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Foley, Duncan K. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [2006]
Temas:
Smith, Adam, > 1723-1790. > Inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations.
Smith, Adam > Philosoph.
Inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations (Smith, Adam)
Economics > Philosophy.
Économie politique > Philosophie.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Theory.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > General.
Economics > Philosophy
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.

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