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Subject(s)

• Economists—Scotland—Congresses [Browse]
• Steuart, James Sir 1712-1780—Congresses [Browse]

Related name

• International Conference on Sir James Steuart [Browse]
• Tortajada, Ramon [Browse]

Series

Routledge studies in the history of economics. [More in this series]

Summary note

Addressing all aspects of Steuart's contribution to economics this book reveals the particular importance of his work on monetary issues and highlights ways in which he prepared the ground for a new conception of economic relations.

Notes

• A selection of papers presented at the First International Conference on Sir James Steuart, held September 14-16, 1995 in the Museum of the French Revolution at the Chateau de Vizille, Vizille, France).
• Conference papers simultaneously published in both English and French editions, the French appearing under the title, "Sir James Steuart et l'economie politique," as a special issue of the review Economies et societes, serie conomia.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-317) and index.

Language note

English

Contents

• Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Sir James Steuart and the Jacobite connection; Lectures; Sir James Steuart and Richard Cantillon; The difficult reception of James Steuart at the end of the eighteenth century in France; The market economy and social classes in James Steuart and G.W.F.Hegel; Marx's polemics against Steuart; The new interpretation of Steuart by Paul Chamley; On the method of Sir James Steuart's Principles of Political conomy; Steuart's method: Aristotelian political economy; Markets, money and macroeconomics
• James Steuart: aspects of economic policyJames Steuart's approach to stability of prices and economic policy: the example of grain prices; James Steuart: economy and population; Steuart's theory of money and sovereignty; Steuart on monetary reform and economic development: his advice for the restoration of the Indian economy; Steuart and Smith on banking systems and growth; Rate of interest, profit and prices in the economics of James Steuart; James Steuart's Principles as a modern analysis of monetary economy; James Steuart's macroeconomic analysis of money, price and output; Bibliography
• Appendix AAppendix B; Appendix C; Appendix D; Appendix E; Index

ISBN

• 1-134-73398-4
• 1-134-73399-2
• 1-280-31827-9
• 0-203-44334-9
• 0-203-27675-2

OCLC

• 560071641
• 52073129

Doi

• 10.4324/9780203443347

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