The history and future of economics
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 From Pre-history to the Crusades -- 2 From the Crusades to the Renaissance -- 3 The Protestant Work Ethic and the Rise of Capitalism as Gods Work -- 4 The Enlightenment: From Leonardo to Galileo -- 5 The Rise of the East India Trading Companies -- 6 The &qu...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Cham : Springer,
[2023]
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| Schlagworte: | Economics Electronic books Wirtschaft Geschichte |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (X, 402 Seiten) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 From Pre-history to the Crusades -- 2 From the Crusades to the Renaissance -- 3 The Protestant Work Ethic and the Rise of Capitalism as Gods Work -- 4 The Enlightenment: From Leonardo to Galileo -- 5 The Rise of the East India Trading Companies -- 6 The "Glorious Revolution" and the BoE -- 7 Laissez-Faire and John Law's Premature Invention of "Futures" -- 8 Classical Economics as Moral Philosophy -- 8.1 On Trade, Mercantilism and 'Laissez Faire' -- 8.2 Adam Smith and the Invisible Hand -- 8.3 Thomas Malthus and the Principle of Population -- 8.4 David Ricardo and Value-Added -- 8.5 Marx's Labor Theory of Value -- 8.6 The Communist Manifesto -- 9 Bentham and Utilitarianism -- 9.1 Precursors -- 9.2 Utilitarianism -- 9.3 Benthamites -- 9.4 Say's Law of Markets: A View from an Entrepreneur -- 9.5 Sismondi: Booms and Busts -- 9.6 Dialectical Materialism and Academic Marxism -- 10 The Rise of Physics: From Newton to Einstein -- 10.1 Background -- 10.2 Variables -- 10.3 Mathematics -- 10.4 Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries -- 10.5 The Steam Engine -- 10.6 Falsification of Phlogiston -- 11 Energetics -- 11.1 Heat as Energy -- 11.2 The First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics -- 11.3 Entropy and Statistical Mechanics -- 11.4 Order and Disorder -- Self Organization -- 12 Evolutionary Theory and Genetics -- 12.1 The Age of the Earth -- 12.2 The Idea of Species: Fossils and Extinction -- 12.3 Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection -- 12.4 Mendel's Theory of Inheritance -- 12.5 The Tree of Life -- 12.6 From Vitalism to Monism (Again) -- 13 Entropy, Exergy, Information and Complexity -- 13.1 Background -- 13.2 Complexity -- 13.3 Sources of Exergy in the Cosmos -- 13.4 The Standard Model of Physics -- 13.5 Entropy and Information -- 14 The "Marginal Revolution" in Economics -- 14.1 Mathematics in Economics. |
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| ISBN: | 9783031262081 3031262085 9783031262074 3031262077 |