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Lecture 1 of 36History of Economic Theory
The Socio-Economic Role of Scarcity and Uncertainty
Prof. S. S. SivaKumar · IIT Madras
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- The Socio-Economic Role of Scarcity and Uncertainty
- The Process of Construction of Knowledge
- The Roles of Faith and Experience
- From Orphism to the Milesians in ancient Greece
- Pythagoras and Heraclitus
- From Parmenides to the atomists
- From the ancient Greece to the emergence of Feudalism
- Feudalism and the growth of the Church
- The age of Faith: Europe until the crusades
- The beginnings of modernity
- Scholasticism and St.Thomas
- Transformation of Europe towards modernity
- Birth of political economy: mercantilism
- The debate over mercantilism: Hume and Cantillon
- A postscript to mercantilism: Hume and James Stewart
- ‘Natural Order’ and the market: Quesney and Galiani
- Smith: the Invisible Hand
- Smith: Growth theory, long run equilibrium and Institutions
- Ricardo-Malthus debate
- Ricardian economics and more
- Equilibrium of the market: from Say to Walras
- More on Equilibrium: Cournot, Dupuit, Gossen, von Thunen
- Socialists and Marx
- The economics of Marx
- Marx as an ideologue of revolution
- Arrival of modern universals in Economics: Neo classical school
- Economic Theory at the time arrival of Keynes
- The centrality of the idea of efficiency in the study of market
- Keynesian Revolution: Macroeconomics
- Keynesian economics
- Economics of Institutions
- Transaction cost and Economic Anthropology approaches
- Evolutionary Economics: the idea of change as evolution
- From Schumpeter to neo Schumpetarian evolutionism
- The social construction of knowledge: Case of Economics
- The social construction of knowledge: Adaptation and Revolution