History of Economic Analysis

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At the time of his death in 1950, Joseph Schumpeter—one of the great economists and thinkers of the first half of the 20th century—was working on his monumental History of Economie Analysis. A complété history of man's theoretical efforts from the time of ancient Greece through the present to understand economic phenomena, History of Economie Analysis is an important contribution to the history of ideas as well as to économies. Afthough never fully completed, it has gained a réputation as a classic of its kind.
Schumpeter „was a historian, social scientist, philosopher, psycholo-gist, and mathematician as well as an economist, and the multidisciplin-ary contents of this book reveal the great scope of his project. Topics discussed include: the techniques of economic analysis, contempora-neous developments in other sciences, and the sociology of économies; economic writings from Plato and Aristotle up through the time of Adam Smith, including the médiéval scholastics and... Tovább

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At the time of his death in 1950, Joseph Schumpeter—one of the great economists and thinkers of the first half of the 20th century—was working on his monumental History of Economie Analysis. A complété history of man's theoretical efforts from the time of ancient Greece through the present to understand economic phenomena, History of Economie Analysis is an important contribution to the history of ideas as well as to économies. Afthough never fully completed, it has gained a réputation as a classic of its kind.
Schumpeter „was a historian, social scientist, philosopher, psycholo-gist, and mathematician as well as an economist, and the multidisciplin-ary contents of this book reveal the great scope of his project. Topics discussed include: the techniques of economic analysis, contempora-neous developments in other sciences, and the sociology of économies; economic writings from Plato and Aristotle up through the time of Adam Smith, including the médiéval scholastics and natural-law philos-ophers; the work of Malthus, Mill, Ricardo, Marx, and the important European economists; the history, sociology, psychology, and économies of the period from 1879 to 1914; and modem developments in économies. Schumpeter perceived économies as a human science, and this lucid and insightful volume reflects that perception. History of Economic Analysis is a work of major importance in the history of économies. Vissza