Essays in the history of mainstream political economy
1992, 1st edition. New York : New York University Press. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #391118
Physical Description: x, 293 pages; 23 cm. Notes: Collection of previously published essays by the author. Includes index. Contents: Acknowledgements - Introduction - The Physiocratic Theory of Property and State - The Physiocratic Theory of Economic Policy - Adam Smith and the Economy as a System of Power - The Political Economy of Adam Smith - The Classical Theory of Economic Policy: Non-Legal Social Control - Zu Malthus' 'Essay uber die Entwicklung der Bevolkerung' - Malthus als Theoretiker - Edgeworth's Mathematical Psychics: A Centennial Notice - Ashley's and Taussig's Lectures on the History of Economic Thought at Harvard, 1896-1897 - The Teaching of Business Cycles in 1905-1906: Insight into the Development of Macroeconomic Theory - The Teaching of Monetary Economics in the Early 1900s: Insight Into the Development of Monetary Theory - Preface, 'Friedrich von Wieser in the History of Economic Thought' - Taussig on the Psychology of Economic Policy - Introduction - The Influence of Friedrich von Wieser on Joseph A. Schumpeter - Introduction, William H. Hutt, Economists and the Public. Subjects: Economic policy; Economics.
Price: €125.00