Format:
1 online resource (309 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415158671
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9780203976593
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in the History of Economics Series
Note:
BOOK COVER -- HALF-TITLE -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- DEDICATION -- CONTENTS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- The economics of John Rae -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- Part I JOHN RAE'S LIFE AND WORKS -- 1 BIRTHDAY GREETINGS TO JOHN RAE -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- VII -- VIII -- Notes -- Part II ISSUES OF METHODOLOGY AND HISTORY -- 2 ON RAE'S METHODOLOGY OF ECONOMICS -- Rae's espoused methodologies -- Rae's Belief in Knowledge -- Rae on the limitations to knowledge -- Rae's espousal of the inductive method -- Rae's methodologies for political economy -- Rae's critics on his methodology for political economy -- Rae's own reflections on his methodology of political economy -- Our perspective on Rae's methodology for political economy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3 THE CONCEPT OF ORDERS OF INSTRUMENTS AND GOODS IN RAE AND MENGER -- Introduction -- Rae and Menger in historical perspective -- Wants, instruments, and goods -- Orders of instruments and goods -- Concluding comments -- Notes -- 4 RAE'S THEORY OF THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE -- Rae's history in light of theory -- Rae's theory in light of history -- Rae's microtheory -- Rae's macrotheory -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5 JOHN RAE AND CONSPICUOUS CONSUMPTION -- Introduction -- New Principles and conspicuous consumption -- Vanity and the process of economic decline -- Policy, prescription, and cure -- Reaction and response after 1834 -- Summary -- Part III CAPITAL AND RELATED ISSUES -- 6 RAE, BÖHM-BAWERK, AND FISHER ON THE SUPPLY AND DEMAND OF CAPITAL -- Introduction -- Supply of capital -- John Rae -- Böhm-Bawerk -- Irving Fisher -- Conclusions on the supply of capital -- Demand for capital -- John Rae -- Böhm-Bawerk -- Irving Fisher -- Theory of capital -- Böhm-Bawerk -- Irving Fisher -- Concluding assessment -- Appendix -- Notes -- 7 INVENTION
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Post-Keynesian economics -- Problems of modern treatment of taxation -- Rae and the accumulative principle -- Rae and the role of the legislator -- Rae, luxury, and taxation -- Rae and post-Keynesian tax theory -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
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The role of invention in the New Principles -- Invention and its causes -- Import substitution -- Rae, Schumpeter, and the incentive to innovate -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 8 RAE'S THEORY OF CAPITAL AND GROWTH -- Introduction -- Rae's statics -- Rae's dynamics -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 9 PRODUCTIVE SAVINGS, INVENTION, AND INVESTMENT SUPPLY IN RAE'S GROWTH THEORY -- Introduction -- Rae's concept of productive savings -- The role of invention in interest rate formation and investment -- Rae's focus on the business sector's role in growth -- The effect of invention on interest variations -- Summary -- Notes -- 10 RAE AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE -- Introduction: Rae and trade -- Rae's 1825 sketch of the infant industry argument -- The gains from trade -- Rae and Smith -- The role of the legislator -- Conclusion -- 11 JOHN RAE AND THE PROMOTION OF INFANT INDUSTRIES -- Introduction -- Infant-industry promotion: Rae's critique of Smith -- Infant-industry promotion and benefit-cost analysis -- Free trade and infant-industry protection: competitive or complementary? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part IV THE DEVELOPMENT OF ECONOMIC IDEAS -- 12 JOHN RAE AND ADAM SMITH -- Introduction -- Rae's critique -- Smith's presumptive case for "unregulated" development -- Smith and the infant-industry problem -- Smith and luxury -- Rae's program in practice -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 13 RAE AS MONETARY ECONOMIST -- Introduction -- Rae's framework -- Rae on money -- Rae on banking -- "Benefits" -- "Evils" -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 14 RAE AND THE TRADITION OF SCOTTISH POLITICAL ECONOMY -- Introduction -- The concept of tradition -- The Scottish political economy tradition -- Rae's methodological critique of Smith -- A missed connection between Rae and Smith -- Conclusion -- 15 RAE AS AN EARLY POST-KEYNESIAN -- Introduction -- Rae and the Scottish political economy tradition
Additional Edition:
Print version Hamouda, Omar The Economics of John Rae Milton : Taylor & Francis Group,c1998 ISBN 9780415158671
Language:
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