| Description |
xx, 639 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. The Patristic Traditions in Economics: The Foundations of Our Study -- 2. The British Patristic Legacy: Understanding the Hobbes Challenge -- 3. Mercantilism and the Rise of the Nation-State -- 4. The Measurement of Economic Magnitudes -- 5. Data Collection, Statistical Analysis, Econometrics -- 6. British Classical Political Economy: Individualism, Utilitarianism, and Property Rights -- 7. Utilitarianism as the Basis for "Scientific" Economics: The Emergence of Neoclassicism -- 8. The British Historical School and the Post-Marshallian Cambridge Tradition: A Reinterpretation of Utilitarianism -- 9. From Muller to Schumpeter and Menger to Robbins: The German and Austrian Traditions -- 10. The Triumph of Cartesian Rationalism: The French Tradition -- 11. An American Tradition: Institutionalism -- 12. What Do We Make of It All? |
| Summary |
"In this New Interpretation of the historical development of economic thought, Mark Perlman and Charles R. McCann, Jr. illuminate the foundations of economic inquiry during the past three hundred years. Writing from the standpoint of the impact of cultural pluralism on economic thinking, their purpose is to show how modern economic thinking is shaped by a small number of cultural legacies that explain not only how economic questions are asked but also how they are formulated. The Pillars of Economic Understanding is thus distinguished by the attention that it gives to the philosophical ideas that are the cultural legacies upon which the structure of economics is built."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 581-607) and indexes |
| Subject |
Economics -- History.
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| Author |
McCann, Charles R. (Charles Robert), 1956-
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| LC no. |
98008953 |
| ISBN |
0472109073 |
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