Elemental Economics

ECONOMICS 380.3 (02)

Economic History of Thought after 1870

Course Outline

 

Instructor:   Harry Hillman Chartrand Location:       Arts 104 Class Hours:  15:30 - 16.20 M/W/F Office Hour:   9:30-10:15 M/W/F STMC 449

Phone: 244-6945 Email: h-chartrand@shaw.ca Website: http://members.shaw.ca/elementaleconomics Tutorials: to be announced

                                                             

Required Text: Mark Blaug, Economic theory in retrospect, Cambridge University Press, 5^th Edition, 1996

 

Prerequisites: ECON 111, 114, 211 or 213, 214

 

Evaluation:

1 Midterm            =  25%

Term Paper         =  25%

Final Exam          =  50%

= 100%

Content (Progressive)

Introduction - Chapters 1 & 17 (excepting 17.5)

Marginalist Revolution & the Standard Model - Chapter 8

Austrian School - Chapter 12

Cambridge School - Chapters 9 & 10

Lausanne School - Chapter 13

Others

John Bates Clark - Chapter 11

Frank Knight - Chapters 8.12,  11.27 & 12.22

Lionel Robbins - see Index of names, p. 710

Knut Wicksell - Chapter 12.31-46

Counter-Revolutionaries

American Institutionalists - Chapter 17.5

John R. Commons

W.C. Mitchell

Thorstein Veblen

Others

Karl Polanyi

Joseph Schumpeter - Chapter 11.22

Keynesian Revolution - Chapter 16

John Maynard Keynes

Counter-Revolutionaries

Frederick von Hayek - Chapter 12.26-30

Harold Innis

Monetarists & Positivists

Rational Expectationalists - Chapter 16.27

Post-Revolutionary Economics

The 'New' Economics plus Behavioural, Cultural (AEA Z000), Evolutionary, Experimental, Game Theory, Managerial Economics, et al