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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461178103321

Autore

Barber William J

Titolo

A history of economic thought [[electronic resource] /] / William J. Barber

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Middletown, Conn., : Wesleyan University Press, 2009

ISBN

1-283-10952-2

9786613109521

0-8195-6997-6

Edizione

[1st Wesleyan ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (343 p.)

Disciplina

330.15

330/.09

Soggetti

Economics - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reprint. Originally published: Penguin Books Ltd., 1967.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Classical economics -- pt. 2. Marxian economics -- pt. 3. Neo-classical economics -- pt. 4. Keynesian economics.

Sommario/riassunto

Study of the grand ideas in economics has a perpetual intellectual fascination in it's own right. It can also have practical relevance, as the global economic downturn that began in 2007 reminds us. For several decades, the economics establishment had been dismissive of Keynesianism, arguing that the world had moved beyond the "depression economics" with which it dealt. Keynesian economics, however, has now staged a comeback as governments attempt to formulate policy responses to the Great Recession of the first decade of the twenty-first century.