Competition and Appropriation

Scope and Method of Economics

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Historical Tree

  • Pre-Smith (16th-18th century)
    • Bernard Mandeville (1670-1733)
    • Richard Cantillon (1680s-1734)
    • David Hume (1711-1776)
    • James Anderson (1692-1765)
    • Secondary Literature
  • Adam Smith (1723-1790)
    • Theory Of Moral Sentiments (1759)
    • Lectures on Jurisprudence (1762-1764)
    • The Wealth of Nations (1776)
    • Essays and Lectures (1762-1795)
    • Secondary Literature
  • Classical Economists (1800-1850)
    • Background
    • Thomas Malthus (1766-1834)
    • David Ricardo (1772-1823)
    • John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
    • Other Contributors
  • Marginal Revolution (1870’s)
    • Pre-Marginalists
    • Founders
    • Marginal Productivity
    • Cambridge
    • Modern General Equilibrium
    • Austrian School
    • Market Socialism
  • Incentives Revolution (1970’s)
    • Game Theory
    • Mechanism Design
    • Property Rights & Transaction Costs
    • Asymmetric Information
  • Histories of Economic Thought
    • Classic Texts
    • Modern Texts
    • Chinese Economic Thought

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