Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
Objectives On completion of this subject students should be able to discuss critically and compare the work on selected topics of some major economists of the late seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; be able to discuss critically the work on selected issues of some major economists of the first half of the twentieth century; and be familiar with primary and secondary sources relating to these selected economists and topics.
Synopsis The work of Richard Cantillon, David Hume, Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Thomas Malthus and Karl Marx will be studied, with special reference to the economics of value, distribution and accumulation. The work of W S Jevons, Alfred Marshall and J M Keynes will be discussed, with special reference to economic policies proposed by those writers.
Assessment Written (2000-word essay): 25% + Class paper: oral presentation: 25% + Examination (2 hours): 50%