ECC4800

History of economic doctrine

(BUS)

Not offered in 2002

7 points + 3 hours per week + Clayton + Prerequisite: completion of ECC3800 an advantage

Synopsis: Topics include issues of growth and distribution in the surplus framework of the classical political economists; economics as physics - the allocation framework of the neoclassical economists; money, gold and inflation in the nineteenth century; the discovery of unemployment; economics as a profession - the claim for a value-free science; early welfare economics; Keynes, unemployment and inflation.

Assessment: Written (2 essays): 100%