The Hesitant Hand : Taming Self-Interest in the History of Economic Ideas /
The author explores what has been perhaps the central controversy in modern economics from Adam Smith to today. He traces the theory of market failure from the 1840s through the 1950s and subsequent attacks on this view by the Chicago and Virginia schools.
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
2009.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Adam Smith and his ancestors
- Harnessing self-interest: Mill, Sidgwick, and the evolution of the theory of market failure
- Marginalizing the market: Marshall, Pigou, and the Pigovian tradition
- Marginalizing government I: from La Scienza delle Finanze to Wicksell
- Coase's challenge
- Marginalizing government II: the rise of public choice analysis
- Legal fiction: the Coase theorem and the evolution of law and economics.