Economics in perspective : a critical history /

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The author examines the development of economics from ancient Greece to the modern welfare state, arguing that its "history cannot be understood apart from the circumstances that shaped the economic beliefs of the time, including the powerful influences that bent those beliefs to what best serv...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Galbraith, John Kenneth, 1908-2006 (Author)
Other Authors: Parker, Richard
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Economics > History.
Economic history.
Économie politique > Histoire.
Histoire économique.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Reference.
Economics.
A Treatise on Money.
Adam Müller.
Adam Smith.
Alfred Marshall.
Alvin Harvey Hansen.
Aristotle.
Arthur C. Pigou.
Auguste Walras.
Britain.
Christianity.
David Ricardo.
France.
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Friedrich Engels.
Georg Friedrich List.
Germany.
Great Depression.
Greece.
Greenbacks.
Harvard University.
Henry Charles Carey.
Henry George.
Herbert Spencer.
Industrial Revolution.
Irving Fisher.
Jean Baptiste Say.
Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi.
Jeremy Bentham.
John Maynard Keynes.
John R. Commons.
John Stuart Mill.
Joseph Schumpeter.
Karl Marx.
Karl Menger.
Keynesian Revolution.
Keynesian economics.
Lauchlin Currie.
Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov).
Middle Ages.
National Recovery Act.
Nicole Oresme.
October Revolution.
Otto von Bismarck.
Physiocrats.
Pierre Joseph Proudhon.
Plato.
Rexford Guy Tugwell.
Romans.
Say's Law.
Sherman Act.
Social Darwinism.
Social Security Act.
Thomas Aquinas.
Thomas Robert Malthus.
Thorstein Veblen.
United States.
University of Wisconsin.
Utilitarianism.
Wealth of Nations.
Winston Churchill.
World War II.
agriculture.
balance of payments.
banking.
banks.
borrowing.
capital.
capitalism.
class structure.
classical economics.
classical tradition.
communism.
competition.
consumption.
cost.
deflation.
distribution.
economic ideas.
economic life.
economic policy.
economics.
economists.
economy.
employment.
equilibrium economics.
exchange.
factories.
free trade.
government expenditures.
history of economics.
inequality.
institutionalists.
justice.
labor.
marginal utility.
markets.
mercantilism.
merchant capitalism.
merchants.
monetarism.
money.
monopolies.
national state.
natural law.
oppressive power.
poverty.
price determination.
prices.
private property.
production.
produit net.
public policy.
recession.
silver.
social welfare.
tariff protection.
tariffs.
taxes.
theory of distribution.
theory of value.
trade.
trusts.
underemployment equilibrium.
unemployment.
value.
voyages of discovery.
wages.
welfare state.
working class.
younger economists.
History.
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Table of Contents:
  • A Look at the Landscape
  • After Adam
  • The Enduring Interim
  • The Merchants and the State
  • The French Design
  • The New World of Adam Smith
  • Refinement, Affirmation-and the Seeds of Revolt
  • The Great Classical Tradition, 1: Around the Margins
  • The Great Classical Tradition, 2: The Mainstream
  • The Great Classical Tradition, 3: The Defense of the Faith
  • The Grand Assault
  • The Separate Personality of Money
  • American Concerns: Trade and Trusts Enriched and the Rich
  • Completion and Criticism
  • The Primal Force of the Great Depression
  • The Birth of the Welfare State
  • John Maynard Keynes
  • Affirmation by Mars
  • High Noon
  • Twilight and Evening Bell
  • The Present as the Future, 1
  • The Present as the Future, 2.

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