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The wealth of ideas : a history of economic thought / Alessandro Roncaglia.

By: Material type: TextLanguage: Publication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.Edition: 1st pbk. edDescription: xiv, 582 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780521691871 (pbk.)
  • 0521691877 (pbk.)
Uniform titles:
  • Ricchezza delle idee.
  • English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330.09 22 RON
Online resources:
Contents:
Preface 1. The history of economic thought and its role 2. The prehistory of political economy 3. William Petty and the origins of political economy 4. From body politic to economic tables 5. Adam Smith 6. Economic science at the time of the French revolution 7. David Ricardo 8. The 'Ricardians' and the decline of Ricardianism 9. Karl Marx 10. The marginalist revolution: the subjective theory of value 11. The Austrian school and its neighbourhood 12. General economic equilibrium 13. Alfred Marshall 14. John Maynard Keynes 15. Joseph Schumpeter 16. Piero Sraffa 17. The age of fragmentation 18. Where are we going? Some (very tentative) considerations References Index.
Summary: The Wealth of Ideas, first published in 2005, traces the history of economic thought, from its prehistory (the Bible, Classical antiquity) to the present day. In this eloquently written, scientifically rigorous and well documented book, chapters on William Petty, Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Karl Marx, William Stanley Jevons, Carl Menger, Léon Walras, Alfred Marshall, John Maynard Keynes, Joseph Schumpeter and Piero Sraffa alternate with chapters on other important figures and on debates of the period. Economic thought is seen as developing between two opposite poles: a subjective one, based on the ideas of scarcity and utility, and an objective one based on the notions of physical costs and surplus. Professor Roncaglia focuses on the different views of the economy and society and on their evolution over time and critically evaluates the foundations of the scarcity-utility approach in comparison with the Classical/Keynesian approach.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 515-563) and indexes.

Preface
1. The history of economic thought and its role
2. The prehistory of political economy
3. William Petty and the origins of political economy
4. From body politic to economic tables
5. Adam Smith
6. Economic science at the time of the French revolution
7. David Ricardo
8. The 'Ricardians' and the decline of Ricardianism
9. Karl Marx
10. The marginalist revolution: the subjective theory of value
11. The Austrian school and its neighbourhood
12. General economic equilibrium
13. Alfred Marshall
14. John Maynard Keynes
15. Joseph Schumpeter
16. Piero Sraffa
17. The age of fragmentation
18. Where are we going? Some (very tentative) considerations
References
Index.

The Wealth of Ideas, first published in 2005, traces the history of economic thought, from its prehistory (the Bible, Classical antiquity) to the present day. In this eloquently written, scientifically rigorous and well documented book, chapters on William Petty, Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Karl Marx, William Stanley Jevons, Carl Menger, Léon Walras, Alfred Marshall, John Maynard Keynes, Joseph Schumpeter and Piero Sraffa alternate with chapters on other important figures and on debates of the period. Economic thought is seen as developing between two opposite poles: a subjective one, based on the ideas of scarcity and utility, and an objective one based on the notions of physical costs and surplus. Professor Roncaglia focuses on the different views of the economy and society and on their evolution over time and critically evaluates the foundations of the scarcity-utility approach in comparison with the Classical/Keynesian approach.

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