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History of Economic Theory

Prof. S. S. SivaKumar · IIT Madras

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Lectures

History of Economic Theory

  1. The Socio-Economic Role of Scarcity and Uncertainty Video
  2. The Process of Construction of Knowledge Video
  3. The Roles of Faith and Experience Video
  4. From Orphism to the Milesians in ancient Greece Video
  5. Pythagoras and Heraclitus Video
  6. From Parmenides to the atomists Video
  7. From the ancient Greece to the emergence of Feudalism Video
  8. Feudalism and the growth of the Church Video
  9. The age of Faith: Europe until the crusades Video
  10. The beginnings of modernity Video
  11. Scholasticism and St.Thomas Video
  12. Transformation of Europe towards modernity Video
  13. Birth of political economy: mercantilism Video
  14. The debate over mercantilism: Hume and Cantillon Video
  15. A postscript to mercantilism: Hume and James Stewart Video
  16. ‘Natural Order’ and the market: Quesney and Galiani Video
  17. Smith: the Invisible Hand Video
  18. Smith: Growth theory, long run equilibrium and Institutions Video
  19. Ricardo-Malthus debate Video
  20. Ricardian economics and more Video
  21. Equilibrium of the market: from Say to Walras Video
  22. More on Equilibrium: Cournot, Dupuit, Gossen, von Thunen Video
  23. Socialists and Marx Video
  24. The economics of Marx Video
  25. Marx as an ideologue of revolution Video
  26. Arrival of modern universals in Economics: Neo classical school Video
  27. Economic Theory at the time arrival of Keynes Video
  28. The centrality of the idea of efficiency in the study of market Video
  29. Keynesian Revolution: Macroeconomics Video
  30. Keynesian economics Video
  31. Economics of Institutions Video
  32. Transaction cost and Economic Anthropology approaches Video
  33. Evolutionary Economics: the idea of change as evolution Video
  34. From Schumpeter to neo Schumpetarian evolutionism Video
  35. The social construction of knowledge: Case of Economics Video
  36. The social construction of knowledge: Adaptation and Revolution Video

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Institution
IIT Madras
Department
Humanities and Social Sciences
Teacher
Prof. S. S. SivaKumar
Level
Undergraduate
Language
English
Subjects
Society and politics
Source
NPTEL
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