A short history of economic thought / Bo Sandelin, Hans-Michael Trautwein, Richard Wundrak.

This book, now in its third edition, provides an elementary introduction to the history of economic thought. A chapter is devoted to each of the major developments in the history of the discipline, before a concluding chapter in which the authors draw together some of the key strands and comment on some major works and textbooks in the history of economic ideas. They also reflect on the changes in economic thinking within the general context of the philosophy of science.

Contents: Introduction -- Pre-classical economic thought -- Classical political economy -- Neoclassical economics -- Historical schools and institutionalism -- Monetary macroeconomics -- Orthodoxy and change.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.