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Author:   Professor Roger E. Backhouse (University of Birmingham) ,  Dr Keith Tribe (University of Birmingham)
Publisher:   Agenda Publishing
Imprint:   Agenda Publishing
ISBN:  

9781911116707

ISBN 10:   1911116703
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   30 November 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Language:   English

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Introduction1. Commerce, wealth and power: the disputed foundations of the strength of a nation2. Natural order, physiocracy and reform3. Adam Smith I: outline of a project4. Adam Smith II: the two texts5. The political economy of Malthus and Ricardo6. Political economy in continental Europe and the United States7. Political economy, philosophic radicalism and John Stuart Mill8. Popular political economy: List, Carey, Bastiat and George9. Radical political economy: Marx and his sources10. Marginalism and subjectivism: Jevons and Edgeworth11. From political economy to economics12. Alfred Marshall’s project13. Microeconomics after Marshall14. Monetary economics15. The rise of mathematical economics, 1930-6016. Robbins’s Essay and the definition of economics17. John Maynard Keynes18. Quantitative economics19. The Keynesian revolution20. Modern macroeconomics21. Inflation and the Phillips curve22. Popular economics23. Economics and policy24. Ideology and place

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Roger E. Backhouse is Professor of the History and Philosophy of Economics at the University of Birmingham and Erasmus University, Rotterdam. His books include Transforming Modern Macroeconomics: The Search for Disequilibrium Microfoundations, 1956-2003 (with Mauro Boianovsky) (2013), Keynes: Capitalist Revolutionary (with Bradley W Bateman) (2011), The Puzzle of Modern Economics (2010) and The Penguin History of Economics (2002). He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2014. Keith Tribe taught economics at Keele University in the 1980s and 1990s before taking early retirement in 2002. Since then he has continued to write, translate and teach. He is currently teaching the history of economics at the University of Birmingham. His books include Governing Economy (1988), Strategies of Economic Order (1995/2007) and The Economy of the Word (2015).

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