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