Format:
1 online resource (353 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415423403
,
9780203846322
Series Statement:
The Routledge History of Economic Thought Series
Content:
In this book the contributors redress this glaring omission in the history of political economy, for the first time providing an overview of developments in Irish political economy from the seventeenth to the twentieth century
Note:
Book Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I: Ireland and the birth of political economy -- 1 The Irish connection and the birth of political economy: Petty and Cantillon -- 2 Swift and Berkeley on economic development -- 3 The contested origins of 'economic man': Hutcheson, Berkeley and Swift's engagement with Bernard Mandeville -- 4 Economic thought in Arthur O'Connor's The State of Ireland: Reducing politics to science -- Part II: The classical era: The rise and fall of laissez- faire -- 5 Value and distribution theory at Trinity College Dublin, 1831-1844 -- 6 The classical economist perspective on landed- property reform -- 7 John Elliot Cairnes: Land, laissez- faire and Ireland -- 8 Charles Francis Bastable on trade and public finance -- 9 The peculiarities of place: The Irish historical economists -- 10 Irish contributions to nineteenth-century monetary and banking debates -- Part III: Into the twentieth century - Irish contributions to economic theory -- 11 Francis Ysidro Edgeworth on the regularity of law and the impartiality of chance -- 12 Roy Geary -- 13 W.M. Gorman -- Part IV: Policy and economic development - shifting economic paradigms -- 14 Political economy - from nation building to stagnation -- 15 Learning lessons from Ireland's economic development -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Boylan, Thomas A History of Irish Economic Thought Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2010 ISBN 9780415423403
Language:
English
Keywords:
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