Readings In The Economics Of The Division Of Labor: The Classical TraditionGuang-zhen Sun World Scientific, 2005 M05 9 - 312 páginas Study of the progressive division of labor is a burgeoning industry in economics in recent years. Classical authors, dating back as early as 500 BC, have made insightful analyses on the determinants and implications of the division of labor. Unfortunately these writings are rather scattered and not readily accessible. This important book aims to fill this void, serving as a valuable source of reference for scholars interested in the economics of specialization.The volume begins with the precursors of political economy including the ancient Greeks, medieval Islamic scholastics and mercantilists, continues with the classical political economists and the neoclassicists, and concludes with the Austrian economists such as Hayek in the 1940s. It covers major themes and perspectives about the division of labor that have ever emerged in the discipline of the economic science, including the economics of increasing returns to specialization, the twin ideas of division of labor and the extent of the market, the theory of the spontaneous market order, coordination in the factory system and large scale manufactures, knowledge and the division of mental labor, integration of analyses of specialization into the neoclassical framework, etc. |
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... economists in the recent two decades ( see , e.g. , Buchanan and Yoon 1994 ; Kenneth Arrow etc. ( eds . ) Increasing Returns and Economic Analysis . Macmillan 1998 ; and Geoffrey Heal ( ed . ) , The Economics of Increasing Returns ...
... economists in the recent two decades ( see , e.g. , Buchanan and Yoon 1994 ; Kenneth Arrow etc. ( eds . ) Increasing Returns and Economic Analysis . Macmillan 1998 ; and Geoffrey Heal ( ed . ) , The Economics of Increasing Returns ...
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... economists busy for many decades to come . On the other hand , classical authors , even dating back as early as 500 BC have indeed made insightful analyses on the determinants and implications of the division of labor , which ...
... economists busy for many decades to come . On the other hand , classical authors , even dating back as early as 500 BC have indeed made insightful analyses on the determinants and implications of the division of labor , which ...
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... economists of specialization . A more systematic examination , covering hundreds of studies on the division of labor by ancient Greeks , ancient Chinese , medieval Islamic scholars , medieval Latin scholasticists and Anglo- Europeans of ...
... economists of specialization . A more systematic examination , covering hundreds of studies on the division of labor by ancient Greeks , ancient Chinese , medieval Islamic scholars , medieval Latin scholasticists and Anglo- Europeans of ...
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Guang-zhen Sun. by overwhelmingly most , if not all , economists : " The division of labor may be defined as the division of a process or employment into parts , each of which is carried out by a separate person . " That is , individuals ...
Guang-zhen Sun. by overwhelmingly most , if not all , economists : " The division of labor may be defined as the division of a process or employment into parts , each of which is carried out by a separate person . " That is , individuals ...
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... economists . In a very intriguing study of the possible influence the Greek philosophers had on Smith's theory of the division of labor , Foley ( 1974 ) has gone so far as to suggest " that Smith could have gotten his original ...
... economists . In a very intriguing study of the possible influence the Greek philosophers had on Smith's theory of the division of labor , Foley ( 1974 ) has gone so far as to suggest " that Smith could have gotten his original ...
Contenido
Part II Nothing New under the Sun? Pieces up to Adam Smith | 33 |
Part III Classical Political Economy | 125 |
Part IV Marshallian Economics | 193 |
Part V The Austrian Insights | 249 |
Name Index | 285 |
Subject Index | 289 |
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Readings in the Economics of the Division of Labor: The Classical Tradition Guang-Zhen Sun Vista previa limitada - 2005 |
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