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The Making of the Classical Theory of Economic Growth
This book collects together for the first time Anthony Brewer’s work on the origins and development of the theory of economic growth from the late eighteenth century and looking at how it came to dominate economic thinking in the nineteenth century. Brewer argues that many of the earliest proponents of economics growth theory had no concept of it as a continuing theory.
This book looks at many of the key players such as Smith, Hume, Ferguson, Steuart, Turgot, West and Rae and is tied together with a rigorous introduction and a new chapter on capital accumulation.
Professor Anthony Brewer taught economics at the University of Bristol from 1967 onwards, with spells as an academic visitor at Duke University, Chuo University, and elsewhere. He is now retired, but still active in the subject, with the title of Emeritus Professor of the History of Economics. He has been Secretary and Vice-President of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought.
Part 1: The Invention of Economic Growth 1. Introduction 2. The Concept of Growth in Eighteenth Century Economics Part 2: The Scottish Tradition from Hume to Smith 3. An Eighteenth Century View of Economic Development: Hume and Steuart 4. Luxury and Economic Development: David Hume and Adam Smith 5. Adam Ferguson, Adam Smith, and the Concept of Economic Growth Part 3: Accumulation and Growth: Turgot and Smith 6. Turgot, Founder of Classical Economics 7. Turgot, Smith, and Capital Accumulation Part 4: Growth, Saving and Distribution 8. Adam Smith on Classes and Saving 9. Rent and Profit in the Wealth of Nations 10. Edward West and the Classical Theory of Distribution and Growth Part 5: Epilogue: John Rae and Technical Change 11. Economic Growth and Technical Change: John Rae's Critique of Adam Smith 12. Invention
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After Adam Smith : a century of transformation in politics and political economy
'After Adam Smith' looks at how politics & political economy were articulated & altered in the century following the publication of Smith's 'Wealth of Nations'.
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Classical Political Economy
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Dark Designs -- On Reading Classical Political Economy -- Summary -- 1 Primitive Accumulation -- Introduction -- Commodity Production and the Social Division of Labor -- The Household as an Agent of Production -- A Simple Schematic of the Social Labor Process -- Classical Political Economy and the Labor Process -- Another Look at Primitive Accumulation -- The Squeeze -- Primitive Accumulation and the Game Laws -- Concluding Note on Political Economy and Poverty -- 2 A Great Beginning -- Sir William Petty and Richard Cantillon -- The Physiocrats -- 3 Sir James Steuart's Secret History of Primitive Accumulation -- Steuart's Scotland -- Intellectual Roots -- Steuart and the Organizing of Economic Development -- Steuart and the Dialectics of Household Production -- Steuart's Contribution and Legacy -- 4 The Classics as Cossacks: Classical Political Economy Versus the Working Class -- The Scotland of Steuart and Owen -- A Brief Digression on Land Reform -- David Ricardo -- Ricardo on Machinery -- Thomas Robert Malthus -- Robert Torrens -- Nassau Senior and Primitive Accumulation in Ireland -- 5 The Revisionist History of Professor Adam Smith -- Adam Smith and James Steuart -- Smith's Project -- Evidence from America -- Smith's Theory of Economic Development -- The American Reception of Smithian Economics -- The Conjectural History of the Social Division of Labor -- The Practical Rejection of Smith's Theory -- Smith Versus Small-Scale Producers -- Adam Smith's Curious Anthropologies -- Recapitulation -- Adam Smith's Discovery of the Division of Labor -- The Eclipse of Adam Smith -- 6 Benjamin Franklin and the Smithian Ideology of Slavery and Wage Labor -- Benjamin Franklin and Adam Smith -- Franklin's Theory of Accumulation -- Franklin and Smith Once Again -- 7 The Counterattack -- Robert Gourlay.
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The making of the classical theory of economic growth
Collects together Anthony Brewer's work on the origins and development of the theory of economic growth from the late eighteenth century and looking at how it came to dominate economic thinking in the nineteenth century
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The \Vanity of the Philosopher\
The \"Vanity of the Philosopher\"continues the themes introduced in Levy's acclaimed bookHow the Dismal Science Got Its Name.Here, Peart and Levy tackle the issues of racism, eugenics, hierarchy, and egalitarianism in classical economics and take a broad view of classical economics' doctrine of human equality. Responding to perennial accusations from the left and the right that the market economy has created either inequality or too much equality, the authors trace the role of the eugenics movement in pulling economics away from the classical economist's respect for the individual toward a more racist view at the turn of the century.The \"Vanity of the Philosopher\"reveals the consequences of hierarchy in social science. It shows how the \"vanity of the philosopher\" has led to recommendations that range from the more benign but still objectionable \"looking after\" paternalism, to overriding preferences, and, in the extreme, to eliminating purportedly bad preferences. The authors suggest that an approach that abstracts from difference and presumes equal competence is morally compelling.\"People in the know on intellectual history and economics await the next book from Peart and Levy with much the same enthusiasm that greets a new Harry Potter book in the wider world. This book delivers the anticipated delights big time!\"-William Easterly, Professor of Economics and Africana Studies, NYU, and non-resident Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development\"In their customary idiosyncratic manner, Sandra Peart and David Levy reexamine the way in which the views of classical economists on equality and hierarchy were shifted by contact with scholars in other disciplines, and the impact this had on attitudes towards race, immigration, and eugenics. This is an imaginative and solid work of scholarship, with an important historical message and useful lessons for scholars today.\"-Stanley Engerman, John Munro Professor of Economics and Professor of History, University of RochesterSandra J. Peart, Professor of Economics at Baldwin-Wallace College, has published articles on utilitarianism, the methodology of J. S. Mill, and the transition to neoclassicism. This is her fourth book.David M. Levyis Professor of Economics at George Mason University and Director of the Center for Study of Public Choice. This is his third book.
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The classical economists revisited
\"Conveys the extent, diversity, and richness of the literature of economics produced in the period extending from David Hume's Essays of 1752 to the final contributions of Fawcett and Cairnes in the 1870s. [Here] O'Brien thoroughly updates, rewrites, and expands the ... work he first published in 1975, The Classical Economists. In particular, he sets out to make clear the shaping of a comprehensive vision of the working of an open economy, building on the great work of Adam Smith in Wealth of Nations\"--Amazon.com.
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Classical Political Economy
Classical Political Economy addresses the question of what determines the social division of labour, the division of society into independent firms and industries and develops the theoretical implications of primitive accumulation. It also offers a significantly different interpretation of classical political economy, demonstrating that this school of thought supported the process of primitive accumulation. Classical political economy presents an imposing facade. For more than two centuries, the accepted doctrine dictates that a market generates forces that provide the most efficient method for organising production. This laissez faire approach is an ideology that gives capital absolute freedom of action, and yet called for intervention to coerce people to do things that they would not otherwise do. Classical political economy therefore encouraged policies that would hinder people’s ability to produce for their own needs. Michael Perelman, however, in this innovative take on the subject, seeks to challenge the ideologies that would allow things to continue in this line unchecked.
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