A Short History of Economic ThoughtThis book provides an elementary introduction to the history of economic thought and has been considerably overhauled and updated since the appearance of the first edition in 2002. A chapter is devoted to each of the major developments in the history of the discipline, with a brand new introduction setting the scene.
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... Ricardo . Malthus revised his essay in several editions . There is a substantial difference between the first ... Ricardo David Ricardo was born into a wealthy family in London in 1772. His parents were immigrants from Amsterdam . His ...
... Ricardo's most celebrated contribution is probably his theory of comparative advan- tages in international trade ... Ricardo stand out as the second great protagonist of the classical school . In the following , we expand a little on ...
... Ricardo's deductive method is still in use , and Smith's metaphor of the invisible hand can be used to characterize the core of neoclassical general equilibrium theory . Another prominent example is Ricardo's theory of comparative ...
Contents
Classical political economy | 15 |
Neoclassical economics | 40 |
Historical schools and institutionalism | 64 |
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A Short History of Economic Thought Bo Sandelin,Hans-Michael Trautwein,Richard Wundrak Snippet view - 2008 |
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