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Adam's fallacy : a guide to economic theology /

Explains the core ideas of the great economists in layman terms, highlighting the economists whose ideas shaped economics on its abstract and more concrete levels.

Основен автор: Foley, Duncan K.
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006.
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Подобни документи: Print version:: Adam's fallacy.
Съдържание:
  • Preface
  • 1.
  • Adam's vision
  • The division of labor
  • The theory of value
  • Capital accumulation
  • The invisible hand and the state
  • Smith's theory of money
  • Adam's fallacy revisited
  • 2.
  • Gloomy science
  • Second thoughts
  • Malthus and population
  • The context of Malthus's Essay
  • Malthus's postulates
  • Malthusian logic
  • Population and food since Malthus's time
  • Ricardo and the limits to growth
  • Ricardo's labor theory of value
  • Accumulation and the stationary state
  • Ricardo's views on machinery
  • The political economy of poverty
  • 3.
  • The severest critic
  • Historical materialism
  • The commodity and the theory of value
  • Capitalist exploitation
  • Accumulation and the falling rate of profit
  • Primitive accumulation
  • The transition to socialism
  • Marx and proletarian revolution
  • Marxist theory and social change
  • 4.
  • On the margins
  • Adam's fallacy needs new shoes
  • Marginalism
  • Where do prices come from?
  • Marginalism and social welfare
  • Marginalism and time
  • Veblen and conspicuous consumption.
  • 5.
  • Voices in the air
  • John Maynard Keynes
  • World capitalism in Keynes's time
  • Say's law and laissez-faire
  • Labor markets and unemployment
  • Expectations and money
  • The fate of capitalism
  • Complexity vs. collectivism
  • The prophet of technology
  • 6.
  • Grand illusions
  • Looking in the mirror
  • Two-armed economists
  • Escaping Adam's fallacy
  • Face to face with Adam's curse
  • Reading further
  • Appendix
  • Demographic equilibrium
  • Theories of money and prices
  • Ricardo's theory of rent and accumulation
  • Decomposition of the value of commodities
  • The working day
  • Index.