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Subject(s)

• Economics—History—19th century [Browse]
• Economics—History—20th century [Browse]

Series

• Routledge studies in the history of economics ; 58. [More in this series]
• Routledge studies in the history of economics ; 58 [More in this series]

Summary note

Peter Groenewegen's reputation as a chronicler of the history of economics is unparalleled. Building on his respected collection on eighteenth century economics, this new book focuses on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, reprinting essays on classical and modern economics. Several of the included essays have never been published before, whilst many have previously been difficult to access having been written across the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. This important collection will be an invaluable resource for any historian, student or academic involved in the history of economic

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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Language note

English

Contents

• Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Classics; History and political economy: Smith, Marx and Marshall; Reflections on two centenaries in political economy; A note on the origin of the phrase 'supply and demand'; From optimism in progress to pessimism: some major implications of Malthus' first Essay on population (1798) for attitudes to growth and welfare in the nineteenth century; Pickering's collected Malthus: a review article; Three notes on Ricardo's theory of value and distribution; Thomas de Quincey: 'faithful disciple of Ricardo'?
• Marx's conception of classical political economy: an evaluationGerman political economy, history and the law of value: Marx and Engels contra Achille Loria; Nineteenth-century moderns; Neoclassical value and distribution theory: the English-speaking pioneers; Perfect competition, equilibrium and economic progress: that wretched division of labour and increasing returns; Marshall and Hegel; Alfred Marshall and Australian economics; Alfred Marshall women and economic development: labour, family and race; The evolutionary economics of Alfred Marshall: an overview; Marshall on taxation; Index

Other title(s)

• Essays on nineteenth and twentieth century economic thought
• Essays on 19th and 20th century economic thought

ISBN

• 1-134-41744-6
• 1-134-41745-4
• 0-429-23236-5
• 0-203-46073-1
• 1-280-40348-9
• 0-203-45879-6

OCLC

• 437074754
• 1000430676
• 1311929780

Doi

• 10.4324/9780203458792

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