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The ordinary business of life, a history of economics from the ancient world to the twenty-first century, Roger E. Backhouse

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The ordinary business of life, a history of economics from the ancient world to the twenty-first century, Roger E. Backhouse

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-352) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The ordinary business of life

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

49198341

Responsibility statement

Roger E. Backhouse

Sub title

a history of economics from the ancient world to the twenty-first century

Table Of Contents

Prologue -- The ancient world -- The Middle Ages -- The emergence of the modern world view - the Sixteenth century -- Science, politics and trade in seventeenth-century England -- Absolutism and enlightenment in eighteenth-century France -- The Scottish enlightenment of the eighteenth century -- Classical political economy, 1790-1870 -- The split between history and theory in Europe, 1870-1914 -- The rise of American economics, 1870-1939 -- Money and the business cycle, 1898-1939 -- Econometrics and mathematical economics, 1930 to the present -- Welfare economics and socialism, 1870 to the present -- Economists and policy, 1939 to the present -- Expanding the disciplines, 1960 to the present -- Epilogue: economists and their history

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