The Wealth of Ideas: A History of Economic Thought (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521691871)

The Wealth of Ideas, first published in 2005, traces the history of economic thought, from its prehistory (the Bible, Classical antiquity) to the present day. In this eloquently written, scientifically rigorous and well documented book, chapters on William Petty, Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Karl Marx, William Stanley Jevons, Carl Menger, L on Walras, Alfred Marshall, John Maynard Keynes, Joseph Schumpeter and Piero Sraffa alternate with chapters on other important figures and on debates of the period. Economic thought is seen as developing between two opposite poles: a subjective one, based on the ideas of scarcity and utility, and an objective one based on the notions of physical costs and surplus. Professor Roncaglia focuses on the different views of the economy and society and on their evolution over time and critically evaluates the foundations of the scarcity-utility approach in comparison with the Classical/Keynesian approach.

Author: Alessandro Roncaglia
ISBN-10: 0521691877
ISBN-13: 9780521691871
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/30/2006
Pages: 598
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.80lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d