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A history of economic thought : the LSE lectures / Lionel Robbins.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1998.Description: xxviii, 359 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780691070148
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330.1 21
LOC classification:
  • HB75 ROB 1998
Contents:
A. Anticipations. Lecture 1. Introduction - Plato. Lecture 2. Plato and Aristotle. Lecture 3. Aquinas and the Scholastics. Lecture 4. Pamphleteers - Money (Oresme, Bodin, "W.S."). Lecture 5. Pamphleteers - Mercantilism (Malynes, Misselden, Mun). Lecture 6. Sir William Petty. Lecture 7. Child and Locke (Interest) -- B. Emergence of Systems. Lecture 8. Cantillon. Lecture 9. Cantillon (cont.) - Physiocracy. Lecture 10. Physiocrats - Turgot. Lecture 11. Locke and Hume on Property - Hume on Money. Lecture 12. Hume on Interest and Trade - Precursors of Adam Smith. Lecture 13. General Survey of Smith's Intentions - The Wealth of Nations: Analytical (I). Lecture 14. The Wealth of Nations: Analytical (II). Lecture 15. The Wealth of Nations: Analytical (III) - Policy (I). Lecture 16. The Wealth of Nations: Policy (II) -- C. Nineteenth-Century Classicism. Lecture 17. General Review - Malthus on Population.
Lecture 18. Value and Distribution: Historical Origin - Analytical (I). Lecture 19. Value and Distribution: Analytical (II). Lecture 20. Value and Distribution: Analytical (III). Lecture 21. Overall Equilibrium. Lecture 22. International Trade. Lecture 23. John Stuart Mill -- D. Other Mid-Nineteenth-Century Thought. Lecture 24. Mill (cont.) - Saint-Simon and Marx. Lecture 25. Marx (cont.) - List and the Historical School -- E. Beginnings of Modern Analysis. Lecture 26. The Historical School (cont.) - Precursors of Change: Cournot, von Thunen, and Rae. Lecture 27. The Marginal Revolution (I): Jevons. Lecture 28. The Marginal Revolution (II): Jevons and Menger. Lecture 29. The Marginal Revolution (III): Costs (Wieser) - The Pricing of Factor Services (Wieser, Clark, Wicksteed). Lecture 30. Capital Theory: Bohm-Bawerk and Fisher. Lecture 31. Walras - Pareto. Lecture 32. Marshall. Lecture 33. Money: Fisher, Marshall, Wicksell. App. A. Robbins' Reading List --
App. B. Robbins' Writings in the History of Economic Thought.
Summary: Lionel Robbins' now famous lectures on the history of economic thought comprise one of the greatest accounts since World War II of the evolution of economic ideas. This volume represents the first time those lectures have been published.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-354) and index.

A. Anticipations. Lecture 1. Introduction - Plato. Lecture 2. Plato and Aristotle. Lecture 3. Aquinas and the Scholastics. Lecture 4. Pamphleteers - Money (Oresme, Bodin, "W.S."). Lecture 5. Pamphleteers - Mercantilism (Malynes, Misselden, Mun). Lecture 6. Sir William Petty. Lecture 7. Child and Locke (Interest) -- B. Emergence of Systems. Lecture 8. Cantillon. Lecture 9. Cantillon (cont.) - Physiocracy. Lecture 10. Physiocrats - Turgot. Lecture 11. Locke and Hume on Property - Hume on Money. Lecture 12. Hume on Interest and Trade - Precursors of Adam Smith. Lecture 13. General Survey of Smith's Intentions - The Wealth of Nations: Analytical (I). Lecture 14. The Wealth of Nations: Analytical (II). Lecture 15. The Wealth of Nations: Analytical (III) - Policy (I). Lecture 16. The Wealth of Nations: Policy (II) -- C. Nineteenth-Century Classicism. Lecture 17. General Review - Malthus on Population.

Lecture 18. Value and Distribution: Historical Origin - Analytical (I). Lecture 19. Value and Distribution: Analytical (II). Lecture 20. Value and Distribution: Analytical (III). Lecture 21. Overall Equilibrium. Lecture 22. International Trade. Lecture 23. John Stuart Mill -- D. Other Mid-Nineteenth-Century Thought. Lecture 24. Mill (cont.) - Saint-Simon and Marx. Lecture 25. Marx (cont.) - List and the Historical School -- E. Beginnings of Modern Analysis. Lecture 26. The Historical School (cont.) - Precursors of Change: Cournot, von Thunen, and Rae. Lecture 27. The Marginal Revolution (I): Jevons. Lecture 28. The Marginal Revolution (II): Jevons and Menger. Lecture 29. The Marginal Revolution (III): Costs (Wieser) - The Pricing of Factor Services (Wieser, Clark, Wicksteed). Lecture 30. Capital Theory: Bohm-Bawerk and Fisher. Lecture 31. Walras - Pareto. Lecture 32. Marshall. Lecture 33. Money: Fisher, Marshall, Wicksell. App. A. Robbins' Reading List --

App. B. Robbins' Writings in the History of Economic Thought.

Lionel Robbins' now famous lectures on the history of economic thought comprise one of the greatest accounts since World War II of the evolution of economic ideas. This volume represents the first time those lectures have been published.

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