The Trend of Economic Thinking: Essays on Political Economists and Economic History / Edition 1

by F.A. Hayek

Overview

This volume presents much newly published work by Hayek on methodology of economics, its development as a subject, its key thinkers and its important debates. It is published in corrected, revised and annotated form with a long introduction.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415035156
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/05/1991
Series:	The Collected Works of F.A. Hayek , #3
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 - 10 Years

About the Author

W. W. Bartley, Stephen Kresge

Table of Contents

part 1. The economist and his dismal task. The trend of economic thinking -- On being an economist -- Two types of mind -- History and politics -- part 2. The origins of political economy in Britain. Francis Bacon : progenitor of scientism (1561-1626) -- Dr. Bernard Mandeville (1670-1733) -- The legal and political philosophy of David Hume (1711-1776) -- Adam Smith (1723-1790) : his message in today's language -- part 3. English monetary policy and the bullion debate. Genesis of the gold standard in response to English coinage policy in the 17th and 18th centuries -- First paper money in 18th-century France -- The period of restrictions, 1797-1821, and the bullion debate in England -- The dispute between the currency school and the banking school, 1821-1848 -- Richard Cantillon (c. 1680-1734) -- Henry Thornton (1760-1815) -- PART IV. CURRENT OF THOUGHT IN THE 19TH CENTURY -- Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850), Jules Dupuit (1804-1866), Hermann Heinrich Gossen (1810-1858).