EconomicsEconomic ideas and trends play a crucial yet little-understood role in the development of the world in which we live and are therefore vital to understanding our society today. From mercantilists through Keynesians to modern economic thought, this handbook covers 50 of the greatest minds and 10 core theories. Including Hume, Smith, Marx, and von Mises, succinct biographies reach behind the personalities and reveal the outstanding contribution each has made to this internationally important and pervasive discipline. The essential concepts and themes have been expertly selected and the complex issues clearly explained within a social, political, and cultural context, allowing the rich history of economic thought to be told and the motivations behind its phenomenal global development to be understood. |
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... Economics , and following developments in economic theory , Samuelson linked Keynes's ideas with neoclassical economics into the so - called neoclassical synthesis , an attempt to unify economic theory through its mathematical ...
... Economics , and following developments in economic theory , Samuelson linked Keynes's ideas with neoclassical economics into the so - called neoclassical synthesis , an attempt to unify economic theory through its mathematical ...
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... economic theory commonly relied on the deductive method of analysis . " Economic laws ” were deduced from assumptions about how humans act in pursuit of their economic interests . For example , a self - regulating economy with a harmony ...
... economic theory commonly relied on the deductive method of analysis . " Economic laws ” were deduced from assumptions about how humans act in pursuit of their economic interests . For example , a self - regulating economy with a harmony ...
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... economic theory was concerned with the formulation of unchangeable economic laws . In his attempt to identify the what , the how , and the why of socioeconomic change , Veblen outlined two major factors : technology and institutions ...
... economic theory was concerned with the formulation of unchangeable economic laws . In his attempt to identify the what , the how , and the why of socioeconomic change , Veblen outlined two major factors : technology and institutions ...
Contents
William Petty 22 Richard Cantillon | 24 |
GROWTH THEORY | 69 |
Abba Lerner 80 Nicholas Kaldor | 82 |
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