Four Central Theories of the Market Economy: Conception, evolution and application / Edition 1

by Farhad Rassekh

Overview

This highly original work offers an intellectual history of four central theories underlying the market economic system, focusing on their conception, evolution, and applications.

Four Central Theories of the Market Economy traces the root of the theories, their conception and articulation, as well as their evolutions to the present time. It focuses on the four theories that are generally recognized as fundamental to the discipline of economics: the invisible hand, comparative advantage, the law of markets, and the quantity theory of money. These theories have profoundly influenced the world. Chapters explore their rich intellectual history from classical Greece to today, drawing on the original works of the great economic minds of the classical era and other thinkers who prepared the path for them, as well as those who refined their works or challenged them. This volume will leave the reader with a deep understanding of these pillars of the market economic system in the context of their historical development.

This book will be of great interest to all scholars and students of economics who are interested in the intellectual history of their discipline as well as scholars and students of intellectual history who are interested in economics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367867195
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/12/2019
Series:	Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	218
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Farhad Rassekh is a Professor of Economics at the University of Hartford, USA.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Invisible-Hand Proposition

Chapter 2: The Theory of Comparative Advantage

Chapter 3: The Law of Markets

Chapter 4: The Quantity Theory of Money