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A Critical History of Economics
By John Mills
239 pages
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John Mills provides a critical survey of the way economics has developed. He argues that the main goal of economics ought to be to show how to achieve a combination of economic growth, full employment, low inflation, avoidance of extreme poverty, and sustainability. That it has failed to do so is neither inevitable nor accidental. It has failed because of a combination of intellectual error and the effects of social and political pressure, which Mills claims could and should have been avoided ....
John Mills provides a critical survey of the way economics has developed. He argues that the main goal of economics ought to be to show how to achieve a combination of economic growth, full employment, low inflation, avoidance of extreme poverty, and sustainability. That it has failed to do so is neither inevitable nor accidental. It has failed because of a combination of intellectual error and the effects of social and political pressure, which Mills claims could and should have been avoided.
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Table of contents
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- A Critical History of Economics *
- Title Page *
- Contents v
- Preface vii
- 1 - Introduction 1
- 2 - Economic Theory 13
- 3 - The Pre-Industrial World 40
- 4 - Classical Economics 59
- 5 - Dissent 83
- 6 - Technical Development 109
- 7 - The Keynesian Revolution 132
- 8 - Hard Money 152
- 9 - Economics and the Future 175
- Notes 193
- Bibliography 214
- Index 220