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| Title:
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ECONOMIC THOUGHT
A BRIEF HISTORY |
| By: |
Heinz Kurz, Jeremiah Riemer (Trans) |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£21.58 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0231540752 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780231540759 |
| Publisher: |
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
3 May, 2016 |
| Pages: |
208 |
| Translated from: |
German |
| Synopsis: |
In this concise and strategic history, Heinz D. Kurz selects major moments in the development of economic ideas to portray the growth of the field and how economic insights are acquired, lost, and reborn. His timeline focuses on the dynamic individuals who give old ideas new life and the historical events that provoke the combination and recombination of different approaches and theories.Kurz begins with classical economics in ancient Greece and concludes with the visionary work of Kenneth J. Arrow and Amartya Sen. Among many other topics, he explains what Adam Smith meant by an ? invisible hand"; how Karl Marx's ? law of motion" works in capitalist economies; the roots of Austrian economists' emphasis on the problems of information, incomplete knowledge, and uncertainty; and John Maynard Keynes's principle of effective demand and economic stabilization. A final chapter sums up the major concerns of economists today and their relation to world events. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Columbia University Press |
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Non-returnable |
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