Economists for beginners

By:

Canavan, Bernard

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford; Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative Society; 1982Description: 175 pISBN:

906495520

Subject(s):

Economics

DDC classification:

330.153 CAN

Summary: Puzzled by economics? Ever wished for a good, clear introduction to the history of economic thought? Here at last is a survey of seven great economists who gave. shape and system to this curious science. Adam Smith, Malthus, Ricardo, J.S. Mill, Marx, Alfred Marshall and J.M. Keynes. In seven lucid chapters, you can trace the development of the essential economic ideas: the theories of value, labour, population, accumulation, capital, money, supply and demand, surplus, marginal utility, employment, state intervention, and much more. Amusing, thoroughly researched, Economists for Beginners allows the major economists to speak in their own words. Documentary illustrations, the social back ground from early capitalism to the rise of socialism, the Great Depression and the Welfare State make the economic ideas come alive.

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Puzzled by economics? Ever wished for a good, clear introduction to the history of economic thought? Here at last is a survey of seven great economists who gave. shape and system to this curious science. Adam Smith, Malthus, Ricardo, J.S. Mill, Marx, Alfred Marshall and J.M. Keynes. In seven lucid chapters, you can trace the development of the essential economic ideas: the theories of value, labour, population, accumulation, capital, money, supply and demand, surplus, marginal utility, employment, state intervention, and much more.

Amusing, thoroughly researched, Economists for Beginners allows the major economists to speak in their own words. Documentary illustrations, the social back ground from early capitalism to the rise of socialism, the Great Depression and the Welfare State make the economic ideas come alive.

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