History of Economic Thought: A Critical Account of the Origin and Development of the Economic Theories of the Leading Thinkers in the Leading Nations (Classic Reprint)
Год выпуска: 2010 Автор: Lewis H. Haney Издательство: Страниц: 600 ISBN: 1440084300
Описание
CHAPTER I THE NATURE AND IMPORTANCE OF THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT There are at least three different branches of study whose names contain the words History and Economics. There is, on the one hand, Economic History, or Industrial History, as it is frequently called; and on the other, there are the closely related subjects, History of Economics and History of Economic Thought. The first concerns itself with the history of commerce, manufactures, and other economic phenomena, dealing objectively with the ways in which men get their living; the second and third treat primarily of subjective matters, dealing for the most part with the ideas men have concerning economic facts and forces. Now these last two have been confused, and their logical relationship is commonly overlooked. The history of economics deals with a science - with a body of classified knowledge; it is limited to times in which economic ideas have become distinct, unified, and organized; it is a history of systems...
