Reflections on the Classical Canon in Economics: Essays in Honour of Samuel Hollander

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ISBN: 9780415208017 | 0415208017
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Copyright: 11/6/2000

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In this discipline-defining volume, some of the leading international scholars in the history of economic thought re-examine the concepts of 'classical economics' and the 'cannon' illuminating the roots of the contemporary discipline, and the shape and form of its evolution.

List figures and table

xiv

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

(6)

Evelyn L. Forget

Sandra Peart

``Classical economics'': a reification wrapped in an anachronism?

(20)

Samuel Hollander

Notes towards an un-canonical, pre-classical model of political oeconomy

(16)

A. M. C. Waterman

Bentham and the classical canon

(14)

Nathalie Sigot

A new institutional perspective on the canonical model: the case of capital markets in The Wealth of Nations

(18)

Anthony Endres

Beyond the canonical growth model: knowledge and learning in classical economics, 1815-34

(50)

Masazumi Wakatabe

Reading The Wealth of Nations in context: rethinking the canon of mid-eighteenth century British political economy

125

(23)

Richard A. Kleer

Justice versus expediency: The Wealth of Nations as an anti-political economy

148

(20)

Jeffrey T. Young

The canon in the history of the Adam Smith problem

168

(17)

Ingrid Peters-Fransen

The French foundations of the classical canon

185

(20)

Walter Eltis

J-B. Say and the French liberal school of the nineteenth century: outside the canon?

205

(19)

Richard Arena

Priceless value (or almost so): misunderstood concerns of Marx and Ricardo

224

(17)

William J. Baumol

Sraffa's Ricardo after fifty years: a preliminary estimate

241

(29)

Pier Luigi Porta

David Ricardo's contribution to the constitution of the canon of Ricardian economics: a reconsideration of 1970s interpretations of the 1815 debate

270

(20)

Andre Lapidus

Nathalie Sigot

Ricardian economics: reasoning about counter-intuitive tendencies when system constraints are present

290

(28)

Laurence S. Moss

Ricardo's use of Say's law: the case of the post-Napoleonic war depression

318

(13)

Timothy Davis

Does Ricardo's theory of money belong to the classical canon?

331

(15)

Ghislain Deleplace

On Hollander's and Keynes's ``canonical'' interpretations of Malthus

346

(10)

Thomas K. Rymes

Theory, application and the canon: the case of Mill and Jevons

356

(22)

Sandra Peart

Canons in the history of economic thought

378

(8)

Alessandro Roncaglia

Claiming and reclaiming the past: the legitimizing role of the precursor concept

386

(14)

John K. Whitaker

Economic texts as apocrypha

400

(51)

David M. Levy

Women in the canon of economics

451

(31)

Robert W. Dimand

The canon in economics

482

(18)

Warren J. Samuels

Appendix

500

(12)

Index

512

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Reflections on the Classical Canon in Economics: Essays in Honour of Samuel Hollander

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