The canon in the history of economics : critical essays / / edited by Michalis Psalidopoulos

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910455478003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000
• ISBN: 1-134-65349-2; 0-429-23224-1; 1-280-33547-5; 0-203-45281-X; 0-203-26305-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (271 p.)
• Collana: Routledge studies in the history of economics ; ; 28
• Altri autori (Persone): PsalidopoulosM (Michals)
• Disciplina: 330/.09
• Soggetti: Economics - History; Social sciences - History; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Papers presented at the Third European Conference on the History of Economics (ECHE), held at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens, 17-19 April 1997.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of tables and figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: the canon in the history of economics and its critique; The Mediterranean trajectory of Aristotle's economic canon; The idea of usury in Patristic literature; Self-interest as an acceptable mode of human behaviour; Deconstructing the canonical view on Adam Smith: a new look at the principles of economics; The 'canonical' model of economic growth in the debate between Ricardo and Malthus; In defence of a traditional canon: a comparison of Ricardo and Rau; Cracking the canon: William Stanley Jevons and the deconstruction of 'Ricardo'Who blushes at the name: John Kells Ingram and minor literature; In search of a canonical history of macroeconomics in the interwar period: Haberler's Prosperity and Depression revisited; Preobrazhensky and the theory of economic development; Canon and heresy: religion as a way of telling the story of economics; The neo-; classical synthesis in the Netherlands: a demand and supply analysis; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book represents the first critical attempt to incorporate the question of the canon in the history of economics into contemporary scholarly debate. It discusses how the canon is formed, perpetuated, interpreted and re-interpreted.