Author:
Hunt, E. K.
Edition Statement:3rd ed.
Imprint:Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2011.
Descriptionxxiv, 579 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Note:Introduction -- Economic ideas before Adam Smith -- Adam Smith -- Thomas Robert Malthus -- David Ricardo -- Rationalistic subjectivism: the economics of Bentham, Say, and Senior -- Political economy of the poor: the ideas of William Thompson and Thomas Hodgskin -- Pure versus eclectic untilitarianism: the writings of Bastiat and Mill -- Karl Marx -- The triumph of utilitarianism: the economics of Jevons, Menger, and Walras -- Neoclassical theories of the firm and income distribution: the writings of Marshall, Clark, and Bohn-Bawerk -- Thorstein Veblen -- Theories of imperialism: the writings of Hobson, Luxemburg, and Lenin -- Consummation, consecration, and destruction of the invisible hand: neoclassical welfare economics -- Neoclassical ideology and the myth of the self-adjusting market: the writings of John Maynard Keynes -- Annulment of the myth of the measurable productivity of capital: the writings of Piero Sraffa -- Contemporary economics I: the bifurcation of orthodoxy -- Contemporary economics II: institutionalism and post-Keynesianism -- Contemporary economics III: the revival of critical political economy.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 545-548) and index.
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