A History of Economic Thought is a text for undergraduate history of economic thought courses. It covers the major writers and schools of thought; in doing so, it reveals not only ideas, but relevant stories of the lives of the great economic thinkers. It offers a comprehensive coverage of the latest technical advances in economic theory including contemporary developments in microeconomics as well as discussions of the rational expectations revolution. Contemporary economics, although written in a mathematical language not used by most economists in the long history of the subject, is a continuation of many of the concerns of the past, and the text explores the ways in which the economics of our age – indeed, any age – develops out of both the writings of the past and the concerns of the present.
Book Details:
- Author: Charles Earl Staley
- ISBN: 9781557860316
- Year Published: 1989
- Pages: 280
- BISAC: BUS023000, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/Economic History
About the Book and Topic:
A History of Economic Thought is a text for undergraduate history of economic thought courses. It covers the major writers and schools of thought; in doing so, it reveals not only ideas, but relevant stories of the lives of the great economic thinkers. It offers a comprehensive coverage of the latest technical advances in economic theory including contemporary developments in microeconomics as well as discussions of the rational expectations revolution. Contemporary economics, although written in a mathematical language not used by most economists in the long history of the subject, is a continuation of many of the concerns of the past, and the text explores the ways in which the economics of our age – indeed, any age – develops out of both the writings of the past and the concerns of the present.
* The book provides especially detailed coverage of economic thought before 1900, designed to put new developments in economic theory in perspective
About the Author
Charles E. Staley has written extensively on international economics and the history of economic thought. Professor Staley studied economics as an undergraduate at the University of Kansas, where he later taught, and went on to receive a Ph. D from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he wrote his dissertation under Charles Kindleberger. He has been a visiting lecturer at the University of Edinburgh and has held Ford Foundation Faculty and Research Fellowship at Harvard.