In this concise yet comprehensive history, Heinz D. Kurz traces the long arc of economic thought from its emergence in ancient Greece to its systematic presentation among the classical thinkers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to the influential work of scholars such as Paul Samuelson and Kenneth J. Arrow. With a keen eye for how economic insights are acquired, lost, and reborn, Kurz focuses on the dynamic individuals who give old ideas new life and the historical events that provoke different approaches and theories. Over the course of this journey, Kurz explains what Adam Smith meant by the "invisible hand"; how Karl Marx's "law of motion" works in capitalist economies; the roots of the Austrian economists' emphasis on the problems of information, incomplete knowledge, and uncertainty; John Maynard Keynes's principle of effective demand and economic stabilization; and the insights and challenges offered by growth theory, welfare economics, game theory, and more. He concludes with a deft summation of world economists' major concerns today and their critical relation to world events.

Economic Thought: A Brief History

Business & Money

Kurz, Heinz

Economics

Columbia University Press

Revisiting Classical Economics (Routledge Studies in the History of Economics)

Salvadori, Neri

Routledge

First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Interpreting Classical Economics: Studies in Long-Period Analysis (Routledge Studies in the History of Economics)

The financial crisis and the economic crisis that followed triggered a crisis in the subject of economics, as it is typically being taught today especially in macroeconomics and related fields. A renewed interest in earlier authors, especially the classical economists from Adam Smith to David Ricardo and John Maynard Keynes, developed. This book may also be seen as a response to this interest. What can we learn from the authors mentioned, what we could not learn from the mainstream? This volume contains a selection of essays which deepens and widens the understanding of the classical approach to important problems, such as value and distribution, growth and technical progress, and exhaustible natural resources. It is the fourth collection in a row and reflects an on-going discussion of the fecundity of the classical approach. A main topic of the essays is a comparison between the classical approaches with modern theory and thus an identification of what can be learned by elaborating on the ideas of Smith and Ricardo and Marx above and beyond and variously in contradiction to certain mainstream view. Since the work of Piero Sraffa spurred the revival of classical economic thought, his contributions are dealt with in some detail. The attention then focuses on economic growth and the treatment of exhaustible resources within a classical framework of the analysis.

Revisiting Classical Economics: Studies in Long-Period Analysis (Routledge Studies in the History of Economics)

Interpreting Classical Economics: Studies in Long-Period Analysis

First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

Interpreting Classical Economics (Routledge Studies in the History of Economics)

Die Baureihe VT 10.5: Die Gliedertriebzüge "Senator" und "Komet" der Deutschen Bundesbahn

Ek-Verlag GmbH

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