The pillars of economic understanding : ideas and traditions /

Main Author: Perlman, Mark, 1923-2006
Other Authors: McCann, Charles R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c1998.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Patristic Traditions in Economics: The Foundations of Our Study
  • 2. The British Patristic Legacy: Understanding the Hobbes Challenge
  • 3. Mercantilism and the Rise of the Nation-State
  • 4. The Measurement of Economic Magnitudes
  • 5. Data Collection, Statistical Analysis, Econometrics
  • 6. British Classical Political Economy: Individualism, Utilitarianism, and Property Rights
  • 7. Utilitarianismas the Basis for "Scientific" Economics: The Emergence of Neoclassicism
  • 8. The British Historical School and the Post-Marshallian Cambridge Tradition: A Reinterpretation of Utilitarianism
  • 9. From Muller to Schumpeter and Menger to Robbins: The German and Austrian Traditions
  • 10. The Triumph of Cartesian Rationalism: The French Tradition
  • 11. An American Tradition: Institutionalism
  • 12. What Do We Make of It All?