Author: Steven Pressman
Publisher: Routledge/Foundation Books
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 207
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0415134811
Description
Fifty Great Economists provides a comprehensive and clear exposition of the ideas of those individual responsible for shaping the discipline of economics. Numerous examples help to illustrate the key concepts and ideas of these economists.
The book covers a wide range of thinkers, spanning several centuries, beginning with Thomas Mun and Adam Smith, and progressing to recent Nobel prize winners such as Robert Lucas and Amartya Sen. Fifty Great Economists contains brief biographical information about each economist, reference to the major works of each figure, guides to further reading and a glossary of economic terms a used in the book.
Contents
INTRODUCTION
Thomas Mun (1571-1641)
William Petty (1623-1687)
John Locke (1632-1704)
Richard Cantillon (1687?-1734)
Francois Quesnay (1694-1774)
David Hume (1711-76)
Adam smith (1723-90)
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834)
Robert Owen (1771-1858)
David Ricardo (1772-1823)
Antoine Augustin Cournot (1801-77)
John Stuart Mill (1806-73)
Karl Marx (1818-83)
Leon Walras (1834-1910)
William Stanley Jevons (1835-82)
Carl Menger (1840-1921)
Alfred Marshall (1842-1924)
Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (1845-1926)
John Bates Clark (1847-1938)
Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923)
Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk (1851-1914)
Knut Wicksell (1851-1926)
Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929)
Irving Fisher (1867-1947)
Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877-1959)
John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946)
Joseph Schumpeter (1883-1950)
Piero Sraffa (1898-1983)
Gunnar Myrdal (1898-1987)
Friedrich Hayek (1899-1992)
Simon Kuznets (1902-85)
John von Neumann (1903-57)
Joan Robinson (1903-83)
Jan Tinbergen (1903-)
John Hicks (1904-65)
Oskar Lange (1906-)
Wassily Leontief (1908-86)
Nicholas Kaldor (1908-)
John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-)
Milton Friedman (1912-)
Paul Samuelson (1915-)
Franco Modigliani (1918-)
James M Buchanan (1919-)
Douglass Cecil North (1920-)
Kenneth J Arrow (1921-)
Barbara R Bergmann (1927-)
Gary Becker (1930-)
Amartya Sen (1933-)
Robert E Lucas, Jr (1937-)
GLOSSARY