The Making of the Classical Theory of Economic Growth: 112 (Routledge Studies in the History of Economics) - Hardcover

Brewer, Anthony

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415486203 ISBN 13: 9780415486200

Publisher: Routledge, 2010

Synopsis

This book collects together for the first time Anthony Brewer's work on the origins and development of the theory of economic growth from its eighteenth-century beginnings to its dominance in economic thinking in the nineteenth century. The key to the origins of the theory is that writers before Turgot and Smith, though they laid the foundations for later work, had no concept of continuing growth.

This book looks at many of the key players such as Smith, Hume, Ferguson, Steuart, Turgot, West and Rae and is tied together with a rigorous introduction and a new chapter on capital accumul

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About the Author

Professor Anthony Brewer taught economics at the University of Bristol from 1967 onwards, with spells as an academic visitor at Duke University, Chuo University, and elsewhere. He is now retired, but still active in the subject, with the title of Emeritus Professor of the History of Economics. He has been Secretary and Vice-President of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415486203
• ISBN 13: 9780415486200
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224