Classics and Moderns in Economics Volume I: Essays on Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Economic Thought (Routledge Studies in the History of Economics)

Peter Groenewegen's reputation as a Chronicler of the history of economics is unparalleled. Building on his respected collection on eighteenth century economics, this new book focuses on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, reprinting essays on classical and modern economics. Several essays have never been previously published while many are difficult to access having been written across the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. This is an invaluable resource for historians, students and academics involved in the history of economics. Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Contents......Page 5 List of tables......Page 10 Acknowledgements......Page 11 Introduction......Page 12 Classics......Page 26 History and political economy: Smith, Marx and Marshall......Page 28 Reflections on two centenaries in political economy......Page 47 A note on the origin of the phrase 'supply and demand'......Page 56 From optimism in progress to pessimism: some major implications of Malthus' first Essay on population (1798) for attitudes to growth and welfare in the nineteenth century......Page 61 Pickering's collected Malthus: a review article......Page 69 Three notes on Ricardo's theory of value and distribution......Page 86 Thomas de Quincey: 'faithful disciple of Ricardo'?......Page 100 Marx's conception of classical political economy: an evaluation......Page 108 German political economy, history and the law of value: Marx and Engels contra Achille Loria......Page 124 Nineteenth-century moderns......Page 144 Neoclassical value and distribution theory: the English-speaking pioneers......Page 146 Perfect competition, equilibrium and economic progress: that wretched division of labour and increasing returns......Page 179 Marshall and Hegel......Page 192 Alfred Marshall and Australian economics......Page 210 Alfred Marshall women and economic development: labour, family and race......Page 221 The evolutionary economics of Alfred Marshall: an overview......Page 249 Marshall on taxation......Page 263 Index......Page 282 Peter Groenewegen's reputation as a chronicler of the history of economics is unparalleled. Building on his respected collection on eighteenth century economics, this new book focuses on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, reprinting essays on classical and modern economics. Several of the included essays have never been published before, whilst many have previously been difficult to access having been written across the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. This important collection will be an invaluable resource for any historian, student or academic involved in the history of economic Building on the Groenewegen's respected collection of eighteenth century economics, this new book focuses on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and includes several essays that have never been previously published The present book is a second collection of my essays on the history of economics, the first concentrating on previous centuries, particularly the eighteenth. Peter Groenewegen. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.