The Canon in the History of Economics: Critical Essays

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• List of Tables and Figures vii
• Acknowledgements x
• Introduction xi
• 1 - The Mediterranean Trajectory of Aristotle’s Economic Canon 1
• 2 - The Idea of Usury in Patristic Literature 24
• References 43
• 3 - Self-Interest as an Acceptable Mode of Human Behaviour 45
• 4 - Deconstructing the Canonical View on Adam Smith 68
• 5 - The ‘canonical’ Model of Economic Growth in the Debate Between Ricardo and Malthus 92
• Notes 106
• 6 - In Defence of a Traditional Canon 110
• Notes 125
• 7 - Cracking the Canon 127
• References 143

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• List of Tables and Figures vii
• Acknowledgements x
• Introduction xi
• 1 - The Mediterranean Trajectory of Aristotle’s Economic Canon 1
• 2 - The Idea of Usury in Patristic Literature 24
• References 43
• 3 - Self-Interest as an Acceptable Mode of Human Behaviour 45
• 4 - Deconstructing the Canonical View on Adam Smith 68
• 5 - The ‘canonical’ Model of Economic Growth in the Debate Between Ricardo and Malthus 92
• Notes 106
• 6 - In Defence of a Traditional Canon 110
• Notes 125
• 7 - Cracking the Canon 127
• References 143
• 8 - Who Blushes at the Name 146
• 9 - In Search of a Canonical History of Macroeconomics in the Interwar Period 156
• 10 - Preobrazhensky and the Theory of Economic Development 180
• 11 - Canon and Heresy 196
• 12 - The Neo-Classical Synthesis in the Netherlands 220
• Index 245