Product Description: Capital theory traditionally spans two major compartments of economic theory: the theory of production of both individual products and the total product, and the theory of the distribution of the aggregate product between the different classes of capitalist society...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The second edition of this anthology contains twenty-two classic and more recent pivotal investigations in the philosophy of economics. Recommended readings now follow the selections. Daniel M. Hausman has expanded and updated coverage of such key areas as positivism and economic methodology, and special methodological problems and perspectives...read more

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Product Description: Boulder 1987 1st Westview. 8vo., 179pp., wraps. Good plus, crease in front cover.

Product Description: The new Political Economy, which in 1815 captured the attention of a country exhausted by war and drained by economic crisis, was to have profound effects on British and, indeed, the Western world's economic and political life for more than a hundred years...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Rt Hon Norman St John-Stevas was appointed by the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford to deliver the 1987 Romanes Lecture on a subject relating to science, art or literature. He chose to devote his lecture to Walter Bagehot, whose "Collected Works" he edited and whom he describes as "my revered and...read more

This collection of essays presents a sampling of the significant contributions to twentieth-century economic thought and practice by Nobel Prize-winner Milton Friedman.

Product Description: Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, -- 1770-1831.

Arguing that a consideration of the past allows, at the very least, an understanding of the present, the author offers an overview of economic theory from Aristotle to Keynes and beyond

Product Description: First published in 1987, Alfred Marshall: Progress and Politics provides an enlightening insight into Marshall's thoughts on social improvement, adaptive upgrading, policy and polity. He planned books on these subjects which he never subsequently wrote, but the thesis of  this work is that a close study of such writings as Marshall did complete makes possible a very detailed reconstruction of the important contribution which Marshall was capable of making to Victorian evolutionary thought (much in the shadow of Darwin and Spencer)...read more

Product Description: The author undertakes a new interpretation of physiocratic economics and its contributions to the foundation of economic science.

Product Description: Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet is one of a handful of American playwrights whose work has found almost as much success on the screen as it has on the stage. His works are known for their clever and terse dialogue and have earned him Oscar nominations for House of Games as well as The Spanish Prisoner, Wag the Dog, and The Verdict...read more

The Evolution of Economic Thought, 6/e presents the history of economics and the philosophies that drive the economic way of thinking. It stresses the importance of understanding contemporary economics, by grasping new ideas, evidence, problems and values that call for reconsideration of basic disputes and major contributions of the past. The textbook explains the ideas of the great economic thinkers and their logical connections to the world of today and tomorrow. Updated pedagogial features provide clear insight into issues like antitrust perspectives and game theory. Introducing ideas like Robert Solow's pioneering model to discuss recent renewed emphasis on growth theory and technological change, the author sheds historical light on modern debates and thoughts. Stanley Brue once again carries on the legacy of Jacob Oser, the book's creator, by offering a scholarly and timely presentation of the history of economic thought.