The growth of economic thought /
Henry William Spiegel.
- 3rd ed.
- Durham : Duke University Press, 1991.
- xxviii, 868 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 678-845) and index.
Introduction -- From the bible to Plato: Founts of western civilization -- From aristotle to the fathers of the church -- Medieval economic thought: the practice of charity and the avoidance of sin -- The transition of the sixteenth century: from unity to diversity -- Mercentilism: Economic warfare for national gain -- Beyond mercantilism: the rise of quantitative methods -- Beyond mercantilism: the emergence of liberal ideas -- The rise of physiocratic thought: nature's circular flow -- Discordant currents of thought: Galiani, Hume, Steuart -- Adam Smith's economics of self-reliance: the philosophical background -- The details of Smith's system and its reorganization by say -- Malthus's population doctrine of self-denial -- Further transformations of Smith's economics: the concern with demand -- Ricardian economics: liberalism enthroned -- From Ricardo to Mill: consolidation and ferment -- John Stuart Mill: Liberalism redeemed -- Interludes of historical economics: Baconian and related variants -- The Hegelian variant of historical economics -- Socialism before Marx: A diversity of views -- Marx: Salvation through revolution -- Socialism after Marx: reform versus revolution -- Economics restructured: Marginalism and optimization (1) Forerunners and Jevons -- (2) The Austrian school: accent on utility -- (3) The Lausanne school: a general equilibrium -- (4) The Cambridge school: Transcending supply and demand -- From Wicksell to Keynes: The upsurge of monetary and income analysis -- Economic thought in the United States: Orthodoxy and dissent -- From economics to econometrics -- An expanded profession in search of new frontiers.