A Reader; Second Edition Steven G. Medema provides an overview of the history of economic thought. This study book brings together important works on economic theory and its development over more than two thousand years.
The collection covers core topics such as price determination, the fundamentals of the market system, monetary theory, international trade, income distribution, and the role of government. Writers such as Aristotle, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes are discussed extensively. This makes it a valuable reference work for students, researchers, and anyone with an interest in economic theory and its history.
Product information
- Author: Steven G Medema (University of Colorado, USA)
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Imprint: Routledge
- Publication date: 2013-05-16
- Number of pages: 770
- ISBN: 9780415568685
- Theme: Economic theory and philosophy
- BISAC: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory
About the author
Steven G. Medema is Professor of Economics at the University of Colorado at Denver. He is also editor of Historians of Economics and Economic Thought en Economics Broadly Considered, both published by Routledge.
Warren J. Samuels was Professor Emeritus of Economics at Michigan State University and wrote several classic works on the history of economic thought. He died in August 2011.