The trend of economic thinking : essays on political economists and economic history / [Friedrich August Hayek] ; edited by W.W. Bartley and Stephen Kresge.
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.
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1991.
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| Series: | Hayek, Friedrich A. von (Friedrich August), 1899-1992. Works. 1988 ;
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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)