HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT

History of Economics
by Schools of Thought

• The Ancients

• Mercantilism

• David Hume

• Richard Cantillon

• The Physiocracts

• Other Pre-Classicals, 1500-1776..

• Optimists and Pessimists.

• Adam Smith
  

• Thomas R. Malthus

• David Ricardo

• The Ricardian Economists

• Jean Baptiste Say

• The General Glut Controversy

• The Bullionist Controversy

• John Stuart Mill
  

• Karl Marx
  

• The Marxian School

• British Anti-Classical Economists

• Early Continental Marginalists

• Piero Sraffa and the Neo-Ricardians.
  
  

• W.S. Jevons and Early Anglo-
  American Mathematical Marginalists

• Alfred Marshall and
  the Cambridge Neoclassical School

• F.H. Knight and the Chicago School

• Lord Robbins and
  the London School of Economics.

• Imperfect Competition
  
  

• Walras, Pareto and the Lausanne School.

• Knut Wicksell and the Swedish Schools

• Carl Menger and the Austrian School

• The Vienna Colloquium and
  the Cowles Commission

• Hicks, Arrow, Debreu and
  the Neo-Walrasian (G.E.) School

• The Utopian Socialists

• The Fabian Socialists

• The German Historical School

• The English Historical School

• Thorstein Veblen and
  the American Institutionalist School.

• Joseph Schumpeter and
  Evolutionary Economics.

• Business Cycle Theory

• Game Theory.

• Economics at the New School for Social Research.

• The Socialist Calculation Debate.
  
  

• John Maynard Keynes

• Joan Robinson and
  the Cambridge Keynesians

• Paul Samuelson and
  the Neo-Keynesian Synthesis.

• The American Post Keynesians

• The Post-Walrasian schools.

• New Keynesian School

• Empirics and Econometrics
  
  

• Welcome and Introduction to the Pages
• Journals and their Acronyms.
• History of Economic Thought Texts - References.
• The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics.
  
  

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