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Essays on Political Economists and Economic History

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The Trend of Economic Thinking

Essays on Political Economists and Economic History

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This volume presents much newly published work by Hayek on methodology of economics, its development as a subject, its key thinkers and its important debates. It is published in corrected, revised and annotated form with a long introduction.

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Routledge
Language
English
Pages
404

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The Trend of Economic Thinking: Essays on Political Economists and Economic History
1991, Routledge
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1991, University of Chicago Press
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Table of Contents

Editorial Foreword
Introduction
PART I: THE ECONOMIST AND HIS DISMAL TASK
One: The Trend of Economic Thinking
Two: On Being an Economist
Three: Two Types of Mind
Four: History and Politics
PART II: THE ORIGINS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY IN BRITAIN
Five: Francis Bacon: Progenitor of Scientism (1561-1626)
Six: Dr. Bernard Mandeville (1670-1733)
Seven: The Legal and Political Philosophy of David Hume (1711-1776)
Addendum: A Discovery about Hume by Keynes and Sraffa
Eight: Adam Smith (1723-1790): His Message in Today's Language
Addendum: Review, Adam Smith as Student and Professor
PART III: ENGLISH MONETARY POLICY AND THE BULLION DEBATE
Nine: Genesis of the Gold Standard in Response to English Coinage Policy in the 17th and 18th Centuries
Ten: First Paper Money in 18th-Century France
Eleven: The Period of Restrictions, 1797-1821, and the Bullion Debate in England
Twelve: The Dispute Between the Currency School and the Banking School, 1821-1848
Thirteen: Richard Cantillon (c. 1680-1734)
Addenda: On Higgs
Fourteen: Henry Thornton (1760-1815)
PART IV: CURRENTS OF THOUGHT IN THE 19TH CENTURY
Fifteen: Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850), Jules Dupuit (1804-1866), and Hermann Heinrich Gossen (1810-1858)
Chronological Order of Contents
Bibliographical Note
Editor's Acknowledgements
Index

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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London
Series
The Collected Works of F.A. Hayek, vol 3

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
330.1 s, 330/.092
Library of Congress
HB171 .H426 1988 vol. 3, HB75 .H426 1988 vol. 3, HB103.H3

Contributors

Editor
Stephen Kresge
Editor
W.W. Bartley III

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xi, 404 p. ;
Number of pages
404

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1282235M
Internet Archive
trendeconomicthi00haye
ISBN 10
0415035155
ISBN 13
9780415035156
LCCN
92139702
OCLC/WorldCat
311331331, 32313516
Library Thing
360487
Goodreads
3639653

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