ECC4800

History of economic doctrine ( 6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL)

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Not offered in 2005.

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%

Contact Hours: Three contact hours per week

Prerequisites: completion of ECC3800 an advantage