Economy. The history of ideas. Textbook

In this introductory textbook, a clear and nonsense language sets out the history of economic thought with an emphasis on the development of economic theory from the "wealth of the peoples" Adam Smith until the end of the twentieth century. The most attention in the book is paid to outstanding personalities in the history of the economy: from Adam Smith, Thomas Maltese, David Ricardo, John Stuart Mill and Karl Marx in the classical period to John Meinard Keynes and leading economists of the post -war era, such as John Hicks, Milton Fridan and Paul Samuelson , describes their life and environment.
The author tells how theories of prices and markets, money and prices, population, population and capital accumulation, as well as choosing between socialism and market economy, developed. "Economics: The History of Ideas" shows that the ideas that today look ordinary are once in the front line of economic science. For example, the demand curve, familiar today even to freshmen, was first painted by one of the most original theorists in the history of the economy. The reader not only learns how economic science developed, but also understands that it continues to develop now