The Role of Government in the History of Economic Thought (Annual Supplement to History of Political Economy)
Contributors: Steven Medema (Editor); Steven Medema (Editor)
Publisher: Duke University Press; Duke University Press Books
Published: January 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9780822366522
Subjects: Central government; Economic History; Public Policy - Economic Policy; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics
Description: The Role of Government in the History of Economic Thought examines a controversial area of economic analysis: the appropriate role of government within the economic system. If the first two-thirds of the twentieth century were dominated by the active involvement of economists in government policymaking, blurring the lines between the spheres of economics and politics, then the last several decades have witnessed something of a reversion to the classical economics of Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill.