Economic development and social change: historical roots and modern perspectives

✍ Scribed by Yiorgos Stathakis, Gianni Vaggi

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 328
• Series: Routledge studies in the history of economics 78
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book analyses the historical roots of concepts of economic development and includes contributions from leading scholars Heinz Kurz, Philippe Steiner, Walter Eltis and Antoin Murphy among others.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Series Title......Page 3
Title......Page 8
Copyright......Page 9
Contents......Page 10
List of Figures......Page 12
List of Tables......Page 13
Contributors......Page 14
Preface......Page 18
Introduction: Economic Development and Social Change: The Classical View and the Moderns......Page 20
Part I: Development Theory: Classical and Modern Perspectives......Page 46
1. Half a Century of Development Theories: An Institutionalist Survey......Page 48
2. Comparative Development and Institutional Change......Page 93
3. Increasing Returns and the Division of Labour in the Theory of Economic Development......Page 116
4. Endogenous Growth in a Stylised 'Classical' Model......Page 125
5. Aspects of German Monetary and Development Economics and their Reception in Japan......Page 144
6. The Notion of the Constant Wage Share in Income-distribution Theories......Page 163
Part II: Economic Development and Social Change: Some Themes from Pre-classical and Classical Thinking......Page 188
7. Nicolas Du Tot and John Law......Page 190
8. Genesis of Hume's Political Economy of "Manners"......Page 209
9. The French Debate on the Morality and the Political Economy of Luxury: From Boisguilbert to Quesnay......Page 219
10. French Political Economy, Industrialism and Social Change (1815-30)......Page 251
11. Sloth and Greed: Mercantilist and Classical Views on Human Nature and Economic Development......Page 276
12. The Two Paths of Economic Development in Adam Smith's Thought......Page 294
13. Ricardo, Machinery and Comparative Advantage......Page 309
Index......Page 321