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The ordinary business of life : a history of economics from the ancient world to the twenty-first century
Title
The ordinary business of life : a history of economics from the ancient world to the twenty-first century / Roger E. Backhouse.
ISBN
9780691252025
0691252025
Edition
New edition.
Publication
Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2023.
Physical Description
1 online resource.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 01, 2024).
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Variant and related titles
De Gruyter University Press eBook 2024.
Other formats
Print version: Backhouse, Roger E. The Ordinary Business of Life Princeton : Princeton University Press,c2024
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 26, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Cover
Contents
Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Prologue
1. The Ancient World
2. The Middle Ages
3. The Emergence of the Modern World View
the Sixteenth Century
4. Science, Politics and Trade in Seventeenth-century England
5. Absolutism and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-century France
6. The Scottish Enlightenment of the Eighteenth Century
7. The Emergence of Political Economy
8. Mid-Victorian Political Economy
9. The Split between History and Theory in Europe, 1870-1914
10. The Rise of American Economics, 1870-1939
11. Money and the Business Cycle, 1898-1945
12. Quantitative Economics
13. From Marshall to Mathematical Economics
14. Welfare Economics and Socialism, 1870-1945
15. The Second World War and After
16. Markets and the State since 1945
17. Macroeconomics and Policy, 1939-2008
18. Economics in the Twenty-first Century
Epilogue
A Note on the Literature
Notes
Index
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Walter de Gruyter & Co. Princeton University Press Complete 2024.
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