ECON 311   Spring 2005

History of Economic Thought

 

311-001 Syllabus

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LECTURES

1 - Introduction and Epistemology

2 - Ancient China and India

3 - Ancient Greece

4 - Hebrews and the Bible

5 - Rome

6 - Early Christianity

7 - Islam

8 - Aquinas and Latin Scholasticism

9 - The Age of Mercantilism

10 - Natural Law-Natural Rights Tradition

11 - Richard Cantillon: The First Modern Economist

12 - The Physiocrats and Turgot

13 - British Economics Before Smith

14 - Adam Smith

15 - The British "Classicals"

16 - The French Liberal School

17 - Origins of the "Dismal Science"

18 - A (Very) Brief Look at Marx

19 - Anticipations of Marginalism

20 - The "Marginal" Revolution

SAMPLE QUESTIONS

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Lecture 16

Lecture 17

Lectures 18 & 19

Lecture 20

 

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