Format:
1 online resource (330 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415678728
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9780203806944
Series Statement:
Routledge Revivals Series
Content:
First published in English 1929, this is a reisssue of the nineteenth edition of Othmar Spann's classic history of economic thought, which is stongly influenced by the German Romantic tradition
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Cover -- Types of Economic Theory -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- PREFACE -- Table of Contents -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE ECONOMICS IN THE DAYS BEFORE THE MERCANTILE SYSTEM -- CHAPTER TWO THE MERCANTILE SYSTEM -- 1. LEADING IDEAS OF THE MERCANTILE SYSTEM -- 2. LITERATURE OF MERCANTILISM -- 3. A CRITIQUE OF MERCANTILIST DOCTRINES, WITH AN INTRODUCTION TO PRESENT-DAY VIEWS ON MONEY AND ON THE BALANCE OF TRADE -- a. Money -- born The Balance of Trade -- c. "Keeping Money in the Country -- CHAPTER THREE INDIVIDUALIST NATURAL RIGHT -- CHAPTER FOUR AN INTRODUCTION TO THE BASIC PROBLEM OF SOCIOLOGY-INDIVIDUALISM VERSUS UNIVERSALISM -- CHAPTER FIVE TRANSITION TO THE PHYSIOCRATIC SYSTEM -- 1. THE CRITICS OF MERCANTILISM: JOHN LAW -- 2 . CRITIQUE OF JOHN LAW'S THEORY. THE THEORY OF CREDIT -- CHAPTER SIX THE PHYSIOCRATS -- 1. AN EXPOSITION OF PHYSIOCRATIC DOCTRINE -- 2. VALUATION OF PHYSIOCRACY. AN INTRODUCTION TO THE DOCTRINE OF FRUITFULNESS AND OF GOODS -- a. Significance of the "Tableau -- born Exposition of the Main Teaching of the Physiocrats -- c. The Idea of a Good -- 3. THE PHYSIOCRATIC SCHOOL -- CHAPTER SEVEN FULLY DEVELOPED INDIVIDUALISM, OR CLASSICAL POLITICAL ECONOMY -- A. THE LABOUR OR INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM OF ADAM SMITH -- 1. EXPOSITION OF THE SYSTEM -- 2. THE GENERAL ACCEPTANCE OF SMITH'S IDEAS, AND THEIR INITIAL ELABORATION BY OTHERS -- 3. CRITIQUE OF ADAM SMITH'S TEACHING. INTRODUCTION TO THE THEORY OF METHOD -- B. FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF INDIVIDUALIST ECONOMICS BY MALTHUS AND RICARDO -- 1 EXPOSITION OF MALTHUS' THEORY OF POPULATION -- 2. VALUATION OF MALTHUS' TEACHING. INTRODUCTION TO THE SO-CALLED LAW OF DIMINISHING RETURNS FROM LAND -- a. Friends and Adversaries -- born Law of Diminishing Returns from Land -- c. Objections to the Malthusian Doctrine -- d. The Latter-day Fall in the Birthrate -- e. Summary -- f. Poverty and Pauperism
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2. CRITIQUE -- 3. POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT OF MARXISM -- F. LASSALLE -- G. LAND REFORM -- H. NATIONAL SOCIALISM -- CHAPTER ELEVEN THE HISTORICAL SCHOOL, SOCIAL REFORM, THE THEORY OF MARGINAL UTILITY -- A. THE RISE OF THE HISTORICAL SCHOOLS, AND THE DISPUTES ABOUT METHOD -- a. The Historical Schools -- born The Abstract School -- c. The Problem of Method -- B. THE SOCIAL-REFORM MOVEMENT -- a. Origin and Nature -- born Classification -- c. Developmental Trends of the Modern Social-Reform Movement -- d. Theoretical Possibility of Social Reform and of Applied Economics -- C. THE EARLIER GERMAN SCHOOL OF USE-VALUE, AND THE THEORY OF MARGINAL UTILITY -- 1. EXPOSITION -- a. Karl Menger's Fundamental Notion -- born Theory of Prices -- c. Relationship to Cost -- d. Aggregate Value -- e. Accounting -- f . Theory of Distribution -- 2. LITERATURE OF THE DOCTRINE OF MARGINAL UTILITY -- 3. CRITIQUE OF THE DOCTRINE OF MARGINAL UTILITY -- a. Gossen's Law -- born Atomistic Nature of the Theory of Wants, Market and Price -- c. Theory of Distribution -- D. BÖHM-BAWERK'S TEACHING -- a. Exposition -- born Valuation of Böhm-Bawerk's Theory of Interest -- E. THE MATHEMATICAL SCHOOL -- CHAPTER TWELVE PRESENT-DAY ECONOMIC SCIENCE -- A. CERTAIN NEW TRENDS -- 1. THE REALIST-DESCRIPTIVE SCHOOL -- 2. THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL GROUP -- 3. THE NEO-LIBERAL TREND -- 4. UNIVERSALIST ECONOMICS -- B. SOME OF THE MOST RECENT DOCTRINES -- 1. THEORY OF MONEY -- 2. THEORY OF THE RATE OF EXCHANGE -- a. The Balance of Payments Theory -- born The Purchasing-Power Theory -- 3. THEORY OF CRISES -- CONCLUSION: A SURVEY OF THE COMPARATIVE VALIDITY OF THE VARIOUS SCHOOLS AND TRENDS -- APPENDIX ONE LITERATURE -- APPENDIX TWO HOW TO STUDY ECONOMICS -- I. THE ACQUIREMENT OF A GENERAL GRASP -- II. SYSTEMATIC STUDY -- INDEX
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3. EXPOSITION OF RICARDO'S TEACHING -- a. Theory of Value -- born Theory of Landrent -- c. Theory of Wages and of Distribution -- d. The Movement of Distribution -- e. Applied Economics -- 4. VALUATION OF RICARDO -- a. Theory of Value and of Prices -- born Ricardo's Theory of Landrent Reconsidered -- c. The Laws of Distribution -- d. The Problem of Method -- e. Theory of Wages -- 5. A SUCCINCT GENERAL CRITICISM OF SMITH'S AND RICARDO'S TEACHING -- CHAPTER EIGHT POLITICAL ECONOMY IN GERMANY -- A. THE ROMANTICISTS -- 1. THE NATURE OF ROMANTICISM AND THE ROMANTIC SCHOOL -- 2. ADAM MÜLLER -- a. Theory of State and Society -- born Economic Teachings -- c. Valuation -- 3. FRANZ VON BAADER -- B . HEINRICH VON THÜNEN -- a. Exposition -- α. Varieties of Agriculture in the Isolated State -- β. Other Teachings -- γ. Applied Economics -- born Valuation -- α. Inferences from Thünen's Theory of Localisation (Law of Returns, Comparative Soundness of the Varieties of Agriculture, Theory of Landrent) -- β. Empirical Validity of the Theory of Localisation -- γ. Thünen and the Present-day Theory of Localisation -- δ. Theory of the Just Wage -- ε Thünen's Method -- c. Brief Explanation of the Leading Systems of Agriculture -- C. FRIEDRICH LIST -- a. Economico-Historical Retrospect -- born Exposition -- c. Valuation of List, especially as concerns the Theories of Free Trade and Protection -- D. GERMANO-RUSSIAN ECONOMISTS -- CHAPTER NINE CAREY'S OPTIMISM AND ITS COUNTERPARTS ON THE CONTINENT OF EUROPE -- 1. CAREY'S TEACHINGS -- 2. VALUATION OF CAREY -- 3. COUNTERPARTS ON THE CONTINENT OF EUROPE -- CHAPTER TEN A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE EVOLUTION OF SOCIALISM -- A. THE CONCEPT OF SOCIALISM -- B. SOCIALISM IN THE CLASSICAL WORLD -- C. THE CHIEF EXPONENTS OF SOCIALISM BEFORE RODBERTUS -- D. RODBERTUS -- E. KARL MARX -- 1. EXPOSITION -- α. Theory of Economics -- β. Historical Materialism
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Print version Spann, Othmar Types of Economic Theory Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2011 ISBN 9780415678728
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