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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... human capital in the 20th century ( e.g. , Becker 1985 ) . Similar to Xenophon , Plato ( Ch 3 ) also based his theory of the emergence and development of the city on the notion of increasing returns to the division of labor . Indeed ...
... human capital in the 20th century ( e.g. , Becker 1985 ) . Similar to Xenophon , Plato ( Ch 3 ) also based his theory of the emergence and development of the city on the notion of increasing returns to the division of labor . Indeed ...
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... human civilizations . His deep insights into the socio - economic dynamics , that the driving forces of historical change come from within the present social structures , long anticipated the Scots , Karl Marx , Joseph Schumpeter and ...
... human civilizations . His deep insights into the socio - economic dynamics , that the driving forces of historical change come from within the present social structures , long anticipated the Scots , Karl Marx , Joseph Schumpeter and ...
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... human capital , note that Gary Becker complains as late as the mid - 1960s that “ surprisingly little attention has been paid to ... the influence of market size on the incentives to invest in skills ” ( 1964 , p.52 ) . among others ...
... human capital , note that Gary Becker complains as late as the mid - 1960s that “ surprisingly little attention has been paid to ... the influence of market size on the incentives to invest in skills ” ( 1964 , p.52 ) . among others ...
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... human enjoyments . At the same time , however , it must be confessed , that the power of exchanging has not been thoroughly analyzed by any writer on the subject . Of what elements that complex power is composed , and by what ...
... human enjoyments . At the same time , however , it must be confessed , that the power of exchanging has not been thoroughly analyzed by any writer on the subject . Of what elements that complex power is composed , and by what ...
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... human capital and labor specialization represented by Rosen ( 1983 ) and Barzel and Yu ( 1984 ) in the 1980s . Babbage's major contribution , however , lies in his " new principle " of standardization in manufacturing , on which the ...
... human capital and labor specialization represented by Rosen ( 1983 ) and Barzel and Yu ( 1984 ) in the 1980s . Babbage's major contribution , however , lies in his " new principle " of standardization in manufacturing , on which the ...
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 |
Readings in the Economics of the Division of Labor: The Classical Tradition Guang-Zhen Sun Vista previa limitada - 2005 |
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