Bertram Schefold

Great Economic Thinkers from the Classicals to the Moderns (eBook, ePUB)

Translations from the series Klassiker der Nationalökonomie

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Produktbeschreibung

This is the opus magnum of one of the world's most renowned experts on the history of economic thought, Bertram Schefold. It contains commentaries from the series Klassiker der Nationalökonomie (Classics of Economics), which have been translated into English for the first time. Schefold's choices of authors for this series, which he has edited since 1991, and his comments on the various re-edited works, are proof of his highly original and thought-provoking interpretation of the history of economic thought.

Together with a companion volume, Great Economic Thinkers from Antiquity to the Historical School: Translations from the series Klassiker der Nationalökonomie, this book is a collection of English translations with introductions by Bertram Schefold. The emphasis of this volume is on the theoretical debates, from the theory of value to imperfect completion; from money to the institutional framework of society; and from the history of economic thought to pioneering works in mathematical economics. This volume is an important contribution to the history of economic thought, not only because it delivers original and fresh insights about well-known figures, such as Marx, Stackelberg, Sraffa, Samuelson, Tooke, Hilferding, Schmoller and Chayanov, but also because it deals with ideas and authors who have been forgotten or neglected in previous literature.

This volume is of great interest to those who study the history of economic thought, economic theory and philosophy, as well as those who enjoyed the author's previous volume, Great Economic Thinkers from Antiquity to the Historical School.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 462
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317312963
• Artikelnr.: 47381897

Autorenporträt

Bertram Schefold is Senior Professor at the Department of Economics, Goethe-Universität, Germany. He has published more than 40 books and 250 articles on economic theory, history of economic thought, energy policy and general economic policy. He edited the series Klassiker der Nationalökonomie.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
List of tables
Preface and acknowledgments
Detailed Contents for Great Economic Thinkers from Antiquity to the
Historical School
Introduction
Two schemes for ordering approaches to the history of economic thought
Institutionalism and ordoliberalism
The development of economic theory since Adam Smith: an ordering according
to the theories of value and distribution
1 Classicals
John Locke: a philosopher dedicated to economic thought
The Pamphlets from 1815: a shining moment for economic theory
Sismondi's Nouveaux Principes d'Economie Politique: classical liberalism,
philanthropy, and the experience of history
Charles Babbage's On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures
Karl Marx: the significance of the problem of the theory of the forms of
value and the transformation of values into prices for capital
Karl Marx: circulation, productivity, and fixed capital
2 Monetary Theory
Thomas Tooke's An Inquiry into the Currency Principle and the theory of
distribution
Walter Bagehot: political economist and publicist in the Victorian era
Rudolf Hilferding and the idea of an organised capitalism
3 Neoclassicals
William Stanley Jevons: the path to modern Utilitarianism
Francis Ysidro Edgeworth's Mathematical Psychics
Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk: discovery and error in the history of theories of
interest
Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk's Positive Theory of Capital
Irving Fisher's The Nature of Capital and Income
Irving Fisher's determination of interest and long-term equilibrium
Vilfredo Pareto's Manual of Political Economy [Manuale di economia politica
]
Increasing returns, competition, and growth
Antoine Augustin Cournot's An Inquiry into the Mathematical Principles of
the Theory of Wealth [Recherches sur les principes mathématiques de la
théorie des richesses]
Rudolf Auspitz and Richard Lieben: An Inquiry into Price Theory [
Untersuchungen über die Theorie des Preises]
4 Institutionalism
Gustav von Schmoller as theoretician
In between Historical School and modern Institutionalism: J. R. Commons's
Institutionalism
Johan Åkerman's The Problem of a Socio-Economic Synthesis [Das Problem der
sozialökonomischen Synthese]
Alexander W. Chayanov's The Theory of Peasant Economy
5 Moderns
Knut Wicksell's Interest and Prices [Geldzins und Güterpreise]
Heinrich von Stackelberg's concept of equilibrium: the search for
evolutionarily stable market behaviour
Paul A. Samuelson's Foundations of Economic Analysis
John R. Hicks's Value and Capital
Alfred Müller-Armack's path: from interventionary state to the social
market economy
Market, policy, and society in Wilhelm Röpke
Appendix: The Series Klassiker der Nationalökonomie
References
Index