The natural origins of economics
By: Margaret Schabas.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: Economics.; Science.
Description: Here the author traces the emergence and transformation of economics in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries from a natural to a social science. Focusing on the works of several prominent economists, she locates the evolution of economic ideas within the history of science.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Before "the economy"; title: Related themes in the natural sciences; title: French economics in the enlightenment; title: David Hume; title: Smith's debts to nature; title: Classical political economy in its heyday; title: Mill and the early neoclassical economists; title: Denaturalizing the economic order.