The Wealth of Ideas

The Wealth of Ideas by Alessandro Roncaglia

The Wealth of Ideas, first published in 2005, traces the history of economic thought, from its prehistory (the Bible, Classical antiquity) to the present day. In this eloquently written, scientifically rigorous and well documented book, chapters on William Petty, Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Karl Marx, William Stanley Jevons, Carl Menger, Léon Walras, Alfred Marshall, John Maynard Keynes, Joseph Schumpeter and Piero Sraffa alternate with chapters on other important figures and on debates of the period. Economic thought is seen as developing between two opposite poles: a subjective one, based on the ideas of scarcity and utility, and an objective one based on the notions of physical costs and surplus. Professor Roncaglia focuses on the different views of the economy and society and on their evolution over time and critically evaluates the foundations of the scarcity-utility approach in comparison with the Classical/Keynesian approach.

"This is an impressive, wide-ranging and useful volume" Business History Review Geoffrey M. Hodgson, University of Hertfordshire

Alessandro Roncaglia is Professor of Economics in the Department of Economic Sciences, University of Rome 'La Sapienza'. He is a member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and editor of BNL Quarterly Review and Moneta e Credito. His numerous publications include Piero Sraffa: His life, thought and cultural heritage (2000) and the Italian edition of this book, La ricchezza delle idee (2001) which received the 2003 Jérome Adolphe Blanqui Award from the European Society for the History of Economic Thought.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9780521691871
ISBN 10	0521691877
Title	The Wealth of Ideas
Author	Alessandro Roncaglia
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2006-11-30
Number of pages	598
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.