Samuels / Biddle / Davis A Companion to the History of Economic Thought

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4051-2896-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 736 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Companions to Contemporary Economics

Assembling contributions from top thinkers in the field, thiscompanion offers a comprehensive and sophisticated exploration ofthe history of economic thought. The volume has a threefold focus:the history of economic thought, the history of economics as adiscipline, and the historiography of economic thought.
* Provides sophisticated introductions to a vast array oftopics.
* Focuses on a unique range of topics, including the history ofeconomic thought, the history of the discipline of economics, andthe historiography of economic thought.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Samuels, Warren J.

Biddle, Jeff E.

Davis, John B.

Über Autor(innen)

Warren J. Samuels is Professor Emeritus, and former Directorof Graduate Programs for the Economics Department at Michigan StateUniversity. He is former President of the History of EconomicsSociety and former President of the Association for SocialEconomics. In 1997 he was made Distinguished Fellow, History ofEconomics Society. Professor Samuels was Editor of the Journalof Economic Issues and is presently Co-editor of theJournal of Income Distribution. He has been on the EditorialBoards of 16 journals, has written or edited over 40 books, and iswidely published in top journals.
Jeff E. Biddle is Professor of Economics at MichiganState University. He is widely published in the field of history ofeconomic thought in such journals as The History of PoliticalEconomy, Journal of Labor Economics, and AmericanEconomic Review.
John B. Davis is Professor of Economics at MarquetteUniversity, and is former President of the History of EconomicsSociety. Professor Davis specializes in history of economic thoughtand is renowned for his work on John Maynard Keynes. Recently hewas a visiting fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge, UK where heconducted research on Keynes' unpublished manuscripts. Davis isEditor of the Review of Social Economy and his research hasbeen published in The Economic Journal, Cambridge Journalof Economics, Journal of Post-Keynesian Economics, andThe History of Political Economics.