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ECON207 The Evolution of Economic Thought
10 cp
Prerequisites 1 Economics unit at introductory 100-level
Teaching Organisation 3 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent.
Early “economic” ideas (the Bible, Christianity, the Middle Ages and the beginnings of the modern market economy): the Mercantilists and Physiocrats; the rise of economic liberalism; the economic ideas of Adam Smith; classical economists and reaction to Classical Economics; the economic ideas of Karl Marx; neoclassical economics; the Keynesian revolution; post–Keynesian economics; the economic ideas of three significant Americans: Veblen, Galbraith, Friedman; contemporary economic problems and ideas including radical economics.
