1st Edition
Great Economic Thinkers from the Classicals to the Moderns Translations from the series Klassiker der National�konomie
Contents
List of tables
Preface and acknowledgments
Detailed Contents for Great Economic Thinkers from Antiquity to the Historical School
Introduction
Two schemes for ordering approaches to the history of economic thought
Institutionalism and ordoliberalism
The development of economic theory since Adam Smith: an ordering according to the theories of value and distribution
1 Classicals
John Locke: a philosopher dedicated to economic thought
The Pamphlets from 1815: a shining moment for economic theory
Sismondi’s Nouveaux Principes d’Economie Politique: classical liberalism, philanthropy, and the experience of history
Charles Babbage’s On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures
Karl Marx: the significance of the problem of the theory of the forms of value and the transformation of values into prices for capital
Karl Marx: circulation, productivity, and fixed capital
2 Monetary Theory
Thomas Tooke’s An Inquiry into the Currency Principle and the theory of distribution
Walter Bagehot: political economist and publicist in the Victorian era
Rudolf Hilferding and the idea of an organised capitalism
3 Neoclassicals
William Stanley Jevons: the path to modern Utilitarianism
Francis Ysidro Edgeworth’s Mathematical Psychics
Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk: discovery and error in the history of theories of interest
Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk’s Positive Theory of Capital
Irving Fisher’s The Nature of Capital and Income
Irving Fisher’s determination of interest and long-term equilibrium
Vilfredo Pareto’s Manual of Political Economy [Manuale di economia politica]
Increasing returns, competition, and growth
Antoine Augustin Cournot’s An Inquiry into the Ma
Biography
Bertram Schefold is Senior Professor at the Department of Economics, Goethe-Universität, Germany. He has published more than 40 books and 250 articles on economic theory, history of economic thought, energy policy and general economic policy. He edited the series Klassiker der Nationalökonomie.
Schefold invites the reader to understand the history of economic thought not as a discipline which primarily wants to discover the earliest author to have expressed a thought which might still be important today. "The texts are really interesting only if we recognise a ‘political’ dimension and try to interpret them as expressions of the will to shape, to preserve or to change the world", he writes.
Schefold [...] tries to build a bridge from the traditional history of economic theories to a universal history of economic thought.
- Gerald Braunberger, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ)
"...this is a truly great achievement in the history of economic thought; it is comparable to that of Schumpeter’s when he wrote the History of Economic Analysis in the middle of the previous century."
- Kiichiro Yagi, Setsunan University, Neyagawa city, Osaka, Japan
