Başlık:
Essays on the intellectual history of economics
Yazar:
Viner, Jacob. author
ISBN:
9780691042664
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Fiziksel Tanımlama:
viii, 408 pages ; 24 cm.
İçerik:
TABLE OF CONTENTS -- The Wabash lectures -- Five lectures on economics and freedom -- Early attitudes toward trade and the merchant -- The nation-state and private enterprise -- The emergence of free-trade and laissez-faire doctrine -- Monopoly and laissez-faire -- The "economic man, " or the place of economic self-interest in "good society" -- Major essays -- Adam Smith and laissez faire -- Marshall's economics, in relation to the man and to his times -- Power versus plenty as objectives of foreign policy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- Bentham and J.S. Mill: the utilitarian background -- Introduction to Bernard Mandeville, a letter to Dion (1732) -- "Fashion" in economic thought -- The intellectual history of laissez faire -- The economist in history -- Adam Smith -- Mercantilist thought -- Man's economic status -- Satire and economics in the Augustan Age of satire -- Review articles -- Schumpeter's history of economic analysis -- Hayek on freedom and coercion -- "Possessive individualism" as original sin -- The earlier letters of John Stuart Mill -- Commencement addresses -- A modest proposal for some stress on scholarship in graduate training -- Address at the University of Toronto Convocation.
Özet:
Ranking among the most distinguished economists and scholars of his generation, Jacob Viner is best remembered for his work in international economics and in the history of economic thought. Mark Blaug, in his Great Economists Since Keynes (Cambridge, 1985) remarked that Viner was "quite simply the greatest historian of economic thought that ever lived." Never before, however, have Viner's important contributions to the intellectual history of economics been collected into one convenient volume. This book performs this valuable service to scholarship by reprinting Viner's classic essays on such topics as Adam Smith and laissez-faire, the intellectual history of laissez-faire, and power versus plenty as an objective of foreign policy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Also included are Viner's penetrating and previously unpublished Wabash College lectures. "Jacob Viner was one of the truly great economists of this century as both teacher and scholar. This collection ... covers a wide range with special emphasis on the history of thought. Today's economists will find [the essays] just as thought-provoking and as illuminating as did his contemporaries. They have aged very well indeed."--Milton Friedman, Hoover Institution "Jacob Viner was a great and original economic theorist. What is rarer, Viner was a learned scholar. What is still rarer, Viner was a wise scientist. This new anthology of his writings on intellectual history is worth having in every economist's library--to sample at intervals over the years in the reasoned hope that Viner's wisdom will rub off on the reader and for the pleasure of his writing."--Paul A. Samuelson, MIT "I am frankly jealous of those who will be reading Viner's essays for the first time, marvelling at his learning, amused by his dry wit, instructed by his wisdom. But although I cannot share their joy of discovery, I shall be able to savor the subtleties that emerge from rereading these splendid essays."--George J. Stigler, University of Chicago "This volume will be a treat for the reader who appreciates scholarship, felicitous use of language, and the workings of a great mind. The Wabash lectures are gems, and the introduction by Douglas Irwin contributes significantly to our understanding of Viner's accomplishments."--William J. Baumol, Princeton University/New York University
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Library | Materyal Türü | Demirbaş | Yer Numarası | Durumu / Lokasyon / İade Tarihi |
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Arıyor... | Kitap | EKOBKN0004106 | 330.09 VIN 1991 | Arıyor... |