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The growth of economic thought, Henry William Spiegel

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The growth of economic thought

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Henry William Spiegel

From the Bible to Plato: Founts of Western civilization -- From Aristotle to the fathers of the church -- Medieval economic thought: The practice of charity and the avoidance of sin -- The transition of the sixteenth century: From unity to diversity -- Mercantilism: Economic warfare for national gain -- Beyond mercantilism: The rise of quantitative methods ; The emergence of liberal ideas -- The rise of physiocratic thought: Nature's circular flow -- Discordant currents of thought: Galiani, Hume, Steuart -- Adam Smith's economics of self-reliance: The philosophical background -- The details of Smith's system and its reorganization by Say -- Malthus's population doctrine of self-denial -- Further transformation of Smith's economics: The concern with demand -- Ricardian economics: Liberalism enthroned -- From Ricardo to Mill: Consolidation and Ferment -- John Stuart Mill: Liberalism redeemed -- Interludes of historical economics: Baconian and related variants -- The Hegelian varient of historical economics -- Socialism before Marx: A diversity of views -- Marx: Salvation through revolution -- Socialism after Marx: Reform versus revolution -- Economics restructured: Marginalism and optimization: Forerunners and Jevons ; The Austrian school: Assent on utility ; The Lausanne school: A general equilibrium ; The Cambridge school: Transcending supply and demand -- From Wicksell to Keynes: The upsurge of monetary and income analysis -- Economic thought in the United States: Orthodoxy and dissent -- From Economics to econometrics -- An expanded profession in search of new frontiers