Economic History

  1. Add to Wish List MAJOR INFLATIONS IN HISTORY

    MAJOR INFLATIONS IN HISTORY

    Edited by Forrest H. Capie
    This title is concerned with periods of very rapid inflation in the period before 1950 and shifts the emphasis from hyperinflation as commonly defined to a wider range of experience. It examines the source and origins of these inflation...
    Hardback (1991)

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  2. Add to Wish List The Historiography of Economics

    The Historiography of Economics

    Edited by Mark Blaug
    This title focuses on the importance of the history of economic thought as an intellectual discipline. It counters the arguments of some contemporary economists who describe it as studying the mistakes of the past. However, all the gre...
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  3. Add to Wish List Aristotle (384–322 BC)

    Aristotle (384–322 BC)

    Edited by Mark Blaug
    Aristotle has rightly been called a ‘universal genius’. Whilst his work in economics was not fundamental, it has nevertheless attracted an enormous literature. This is particularly true of some passages in his ‘Politics’ on the ‘Natura...
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  4. Add to Wish List St Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274)

    St Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274)

    Edited by Mark Blaug
    Thomas Aquinas is generally acknowledged to be the greatest theologian of the Middle Ages and his masterpiece, ‘Summa Theologica’, provides a complete and authoritative statement of medieval economic thought that has remained the officia...
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  5. Add to Wish List The Early Mercantilists: Thomas Mun (1571–1641), Edward Misselden (1608–1634) and Gerard de Malynes (1586–1623)

    The Early Mercantilists: Thomas Mun (1571–1641), Edward Misselden (1608–1634) and Gerard de Malynes (1586–1623)

    Edited by Mark Blaug
    The Mercantilist School never presented a common front but is associated with a common outlook: the idea of specie or bullion as the essence of wealth and the notion that a positive balance of trade is an index of national welfare. It i...
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  6. Add to Wish List The Later Mercantilists: Josiah Child (1603–1699) and John Locke (1632–1704)

    The Later Mercantilists: Josiah Child (1603–1699) and John Locke (1632–1704)

    Edited by Mark Blaug
    This volume presents critical writings on the work of the later mercantilists. Sir Josiah Child was elected a governor of the East India Company in 1681. His reputation as an economist rests on his book ‘A New Discourse of Trade’ publis...
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  7. Add to Wish List Pre-Classical Economists Volume I: Charles Davenant (1656–1714) and William Petty (1623–1687)

    Pre-Classical Economists Volume I: Charles Davenant (1656–1714) and William Petty (1623–1687)

    Edited by Mark Blaug
    Charles Davenant was one of the leading economic pamphleteers of the 1690s. He frequently developed general principles, some of which sound almost like the early writings of Adam Smith. He was, however, a Mercantilist in the sense that...
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  8. Add to Wish List Pre-Classical Economists Volume II:

    Pre-Classical Economists Volume II:

    Edited by Mark Blaug
    Pierre le Pesant Boisguilbert was considered by Marx as one of the founders of classical political economy. His writings contain a large number of concepts and ideas that reappear in the writings of Quesnay, Cantillon and Adam Smith. G...
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  9. Add to Wish List Pre-Classical Economists Volume III: John Law (1671–1729) and Bernard Mandeville (1660–1733)

    Pre-Classical Economists Volume III: John Law (1671–1729) and Bernard Mandeville (1660–1733)

    Edited by Mark Blaug
    John Law was one of those extraordinary personalities in which the 18th century seemed to abound. He held a demand-and-supply theory of value and treated the value of money or the determination of the average level of prices as only a s...
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  10. Add to Wish List Richard Cantillon (1680–1734) and Jacques Turgot (1727–1781)

    Richard Cantillon (1680–1734) and Jacques Turgot (1727–1781)

    Edited by Mark Blaug
    Richard Cantillon was an Irish refugee who fled to France after the defeat of James II. As a business associate of John Law he sold stock on a rising market and made a fortune from the Mississippi Bubble. His one great book ‘Essay on t...
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  11. Add to Wish List Francois Quesnay (1694–1774)

    Francois Quesnay (1694–1774)

    Edited by Mark Blaug
    Francois Quesnay is best known for the Tableau Economique, the proposition that only agriculture generates a positive ''net product'' and that industry is ‘sterile’. He recommended a ‘single tax’ on ground rent and invented the slogan ‘...
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  12. Add to Wish List David Hume (1711–1776) and James Steuart (1712–1780)

    David Hume (1711–1776) and James Steuart (1712–1780)

    Edited by Mark Blaug
    David Hume is best known for his work on political philosophy. However, he wrote a series of essays on money, population and international trade which must rank among the major economic writings of the 18th century. Certainly they infl...
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