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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451079203321

Titolo

Joseph A. Schumpeter, historian of economics : perspectives on the history of economic thought : selected papers from the History of Economics Society Conference, 1994 / / edited by Laurence S. Moss

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1996

ISBN

0-429-23172-5

1-134-78530-5

1-280-11028-7

9786610110285

0-203-43597-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (341 p.)

Collana

Perspectives on the history of economic thought

Altri autori (Persone)

MossLaurence S. <1944->

SchumpeterJoseph Alois <1883-1950.>

Disciplina

330/.09

Soggetti

Economists - United States

Evolutionary economics - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION; Part I Methods of scholarship; 1 ASSESSING THE REPRINTING OF SCHUMPETER'S HISTORY OF ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; 2 VISION AND PROGRESS IN ECONOMIC THOUGHT: SCHUMPETER AFTER KUHN; 3 SCHUMPETER'S TREATMENT OF NONMAINSTREAM AMERICAN ECONOMICS; 4 POPULARIZERS AS CONTRIBUTORS TO ECONOMICS: THE UNAPPRECIATED TRIBE; 5 THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF ECONOMICS: A METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH; Part II The ""great gap"" thesis revisited; 6 THE INACCURACY OF THE SCHUMPETERIAN GREAT GAP THESIS: ECONOMIC THOUGHT IN MEDIEVAL IRAN (PERSIA)

7 IBN KHALDUN'S POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC REALISM8 MAIMONIDES ON PROPERTY: ITS ACCUMULATION AND ITS DISTRIBUTION; 9 AL-MAQRfZI'S BOOK OF AIDING THE NATION BY INVESTIGATING THE DEPRESSION OF 1403-6: TRANSLATION AND COMMENTARY; Part III



Thoughts about money, credit, and finance; 10 A TEST OF SCHUMPETER'S APPROACH TO MONEY: THE CASE OF THE SIXTEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH MONETARY DEBATE; 11 BANKS, CREDIT, AND THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM IN SCHUMPETER: AN INTERPRETATION; Part IV Themes of the classical school; 12 ADAM SMITH'S INVISIBLE/VISIBLE HAND/CHAIN/CHAOS

13 JEREMY BENTHAM ON PRIVATE AND PUBLIC WAGES AND EMPLOYMENT: THE CIVIL SERVANTS, THE POOR, AND THE INDIGENT14 WHAT SCHUMPETER SAW IN QUESNAY'S MODEL: HOW THE TABLEAU ECONOMIQUE IS NOT A GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM OR INPUT-OUTPUT MODEL; Part V Expanding the frontiers; 15 COMMONS AND VEBLEN: CONTRASTING IDEAS ABOUT EVOLUTION; 16 MR. BOULDING AND THE AUSTRIANS: BOULDING'S CONTRIBUTION TO SUBJECTIVIST ECONOMICS; 17 ECONOMICS AS A PATRIARCHAL DISCOURSE; Part VI The synthesis; 18 THE SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENCE AND SCHUMPETER'S IDEOLOGY; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Joseph A. Schumpeter was one of the great economists of the twentieth century. His History of Economic Analsyis is perhaps the greatest contribution to the history of economics, providing a magisterial account of the development of the subject from Ancient Greece to the mid-twentieth century. Schumpeter's views on his predecessors have proved to be a constant source of controversy. Here individual chapters examine such disparate questions as Schumpeter's apparent disregard for the American Institutionalists, his grudging respect for Adam Smith, the perspicacity of his views of Que