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| | Classical economics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Once land and capital equipment are appropriated by individuals, the national income is divided up between laborers, landlords, and capitalists in the form of wages, rent, and profits. | | | It was largely displaced by marginalist schools of thought (such as the Austrian School) who saw value to derive from the marginal utility that consumers found in a good rather than the cost of the inputs that made up the product. | | | According to proponents of the theory of endogeneous money banks the supply of money automatically adjusts to the demand, and banks can only control the terms (e.g., the rate of interest) on which loans are made. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_economics
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| | Postscript to Neo-Classical Economics |
| | Economic analysis, as construed by writers of a neo-classical persuasion, centred on the functioning of the market system and its major objective was to clarify the choices open to producers and consumers in market situations. | | | If advised that consumers would normally buy more of a commodity at lower than at a higher price, Veblen would object that considerations of emulation and conspicuous consumption might, in certain circumstances, yield the opposite result; luxury goods valued as status symbols, for example, might actually be purchased in reduced quantities as their prices fell. | | | Under the recommended system of `accounting prices' the buyer of labour would be subsidized while the buyer of capital would be taxed. |
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| | economics. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | Today, economists are employed in large numbers in private industry, government, and higher education (see economic planning). | | | Economic writings of the age focus on the just price for goods and criticism of usury. | | | Because they considered land to be the sole source of wealth, they urged the adoption of a tax on land as the only economically justifiable tax. |
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| | In accord with the physiocratic and geoclassical schools, foundational economics agrees that land rent is the efficient source of revenue for public goods and services. | | | Government, large corporations, banks, labor unions, and social organizations certainly affect the outcomes of economies, and institutionalist economics is important in the understanding of economic history and current economic life. | | | Instead of taxing industry, the physiocrats theorized that the net product could be an "impot unique" or "single tax" that could provide for all government revenue. |
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| | Kepa M. Ormazabal, "Neo-Classical Economics Is Not 'Neo', but 'Anti'-Classical", Post-Autistic Economics ... |
| | For the Classical tradition, the concept of price is only indirectly related to utility, and it is primarily related to profit; in other words: price is not a means to improve utility, but a means to surplus value, to the accumulation of capital for its own sake. | | | What remains is exchange value as a temporary means to use value, so that a truly competitive capitalistic economy becomes, in the end, a barter economy in which the very notion of profit is totally out of place. | | | From this truth, it concludes that surplus value in exchange is irrational and, therefore, that it does not exist, that profit is appearance of surplus value without reality. |
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http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue22/Ormazabal22.htm
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| | The Rise, Decline, And Reemergence Of Classical Liberalism |
| | Classical liberalism found its champion in Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (1727-1781), Controller General of Finance under Louis XVI from 1774 to 1778. | | | Classical liberalism's ability to grow to address new situations and adapt to different cultures also reveals its universal applicability. | | | Unlike other classical liberals, he accepts that the government may have a role in creating a stable framework for the market. |
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http://www.belmont.edu/lockesmith/essay.html
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| | Sample Chapter for O'Brien, D.P.: The Classical Economists Revisited. |
| | One of the most important distinguishing characteristics of the Classical economists is that they formed, educationally and professionally, a remarkably good cross-section of the educated classes of their age. | | | But its economic output was of excellent quality--significantly better than anything the Quarterly or Blackwood's had to offer--and it was well read amongst the Classical economists. | | | But the fact that most of the big names were little involved was important; apart from anything else it meant that the Journal of the society, which could have become a professional journal for the economists, never took on this role. |
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http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/chapters/s7829.html
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| | Marx’s Critique of Classical Economics |
| | Classical political economy seeks to reduce the various fixed and mutually alien forms of wealth to their inner unity by means of analysis and to strip away the form in which they exist independently alongside one another. | | | Neither of these interpretations of Marx& principal objection to the standpoint of classical economy can be sustained on the basis of a reading of the appropriate texts. | | | The development of the value concept, which is the most important single feature of Smith’s work – a concept missing in Physiocracy – was an expression of this indirect, mediated form taken by production under capitalism. |
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http://www.marxists.org/archive/pilling/works/capital/geoff1.htm
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| | Economics is dead. Long live economics! |
| | The "money economy" is a model for trade and markets, not an economy, nor the necessary basis for classical economics; it can be compared to various forms of "barter economy" that some believe would be more appropriate to "new" economies, whether dominated by attention or something else. | | | Moreover, scarcity is a relative term, so as long as the quantity of all things is not the same, it is a useful concept to evaluate the terms of trade between one valued resource or produce and another. | | | To conclude, given the validity of the core economic concept of scarcity, "information economy" and "knowledge economy" are inappropriate to describe the "new" economy - if taken at face value rather than as convenient placeholders. |
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http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue2_5/ghosh
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| | The Bankruptcy of Classical Economics, by Walter Haines |
| | As the United States struggles to recover from a recession that "officially" hit bottom in March 1991, some economists are worrying about a strong recovery breeding inflation; yet the percentage of the working-age population employed is actually lower now than it has been since 1987. | | | We arc working feverishly on these problems, but the figures that are churned out by various researchers vary from one to another by orders of magnitude, at least partly because we cannot agree on how to measure benefits often not even costs. | | | It is conceivable that the government has interfered with recovery by allowing the "wrong" policies, but economics has not helped, if only because economists are not agreed on what the "right" policies might be. |
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| | The Chronicle: 1/24/2003: Taking On 'Rational Man' |
| | And with strongholds at leading research universities and a Nobel awarded in the field, most mainstream economists are too proud of their profession to even notice these puny insurgents. | | | Neoclassical theory holds that individuals, households, and companies rationally serve their best interests and that competition sorts out prices, wages, and the markets for goods and labor in economies' movement toward equilibrium. | | | The confederation's pained statement of purpose laments that most of its members' interests, such as exploitation and inequitable income distribution, have been "defined out" of economics. |
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http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i20/20a01201.htm
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| | NEW CLASSICAL AND OLD AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS |
| | Structural properties of the economy, however, cannot be measured independent of relative movements of economic variables. | | | Hayek, 1967 and 1975) of the misdirection of labor and by developments within New Classicism which incorporate a capital stock variable (e.g. | | | As exposited by Robert Lucas (1981), Robert Barro (1981) and others, EBCT so conceived accounts for business cycles in terms of the actions of market participants confronted with what has come to be known as a signal-extraction problem. |
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http://www.auburn.edu/~garriro/fnc1kyun.htm
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| | Classical Theory of Economics |
| | This marked the birth of Keynesian economics and most post-war governments managed the economy using Keynesian policies up until the beginning of the 1970s. | | | The main Beliefs roles of government are therefore to ensure the free workings of markets Theories using 'supply-side policies' and AS & AD to ensure a balanced budget. | | | This is because, according to this law, any increase in output of goods and services (supply) will lead to an increase in expenditure to buy those goods and services (demand). |
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| | UCLA Asia Institute: Economic Theory and Economic Reform in China: Neo-Classical Economics vs. Neo-Socialist Economics? |
| | The goal of economic policy in such countries should be to upgrade the factor endowment structure. | | | The reason for this failure, according to Lin, is because with the viability assumption, attention was concentrated on such issues as property rights, corporate governance, government intervention, and others related to the firm’s management. | | | Implementing these reforms, which will lead to higher efficiency and greater economic growth, may ultimately cost no more than continuing the present system. |
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http://www.isop.ucla.edu/asia/article.asp?parentid=3521
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| | EVOLUTIONARY ECONOMICS AND THE COUNTERFACTUAL THREAT |
| | By changing the unit of analysis we have recovered strong theory and the analytical results that are produced using deductive tools, yet the models underlying these results retain the evolutionary processes inherent in the economic decisions made by firms. | | | Therefore, because the results are "loose" and are based heavily on the judgment of the analyst, they are of little (or no) value. | | | The number of patents filed will increase by 10% for every 25% increase in RandD spending. |
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| | Amazon.com: On Classical Economics: Books: Thomas Sowell |
| | Subjects > Business & Investing > Economics > General | | | Subjects > Business & Investing > Economics > Theory | | | This historical review in the form of essays is important and insightful scholarship but is necessarily technical and hence will be a helpful resource to library patrons with a background in economics. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0300113161?v=glance
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| | classical economics - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about classical economics |
| | The idea that economic growth could best be promoted by free trade, unassisted by government, was in conflict with mercantilism. | | | Central to the theory were economic freedom, competition, and laissez-faire government. | | | The belief that agriculture was the chief determinant of economic health was also rejected in favour of manufacturing development, and the importance of labour productivity was stressed. |
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http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/classical+economics
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| | The Theory of the Individual in Economics: Identity and Value |
| | Classical economists opposed exchanges between autonomous individuals (through markets) to cooperation between holistic dependents (within organistic societies). | | | Davis then proceeds to show that the notion of an “imbedded individual,” which originates in the holistic approach, leads to a resurgence of a more powerful concept of individuality (chaps. | | | As to the interaction between anthropology and economics, the classical economists investigated how concern with economic maximization could be detrimental to the development of individuality (e.g., alienation) or a cause for its blooming (creativity and dynamic entrepreneurship). |
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| | The dominance of the Ricardian school in Britain does not mean it was unchallenged. | | | One of the central paradigms that dominated 19th Century economics was that of the " HYPERLINK "mhtml:mid:/schools/ricardian.htm" Classical" school of political economy, which flowered principally in Great Britain. | | | Sraffa and Dobb saw Classical and Neoclassical theories as "competing paradigms" which had their own internal consistency and logic which could not be reconciled. |
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http://www.biu.ac.il/soc/ec/students/teach/814/data/t4.doc
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| | In the Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith demonstrated that Wealth accumulated as a result of production and trade, and that trade was mutually beneficial. | | | From this point on, we will follow very closely the models as presented in the book. | | | If you don't believe it, read a newspaper! ¡B Z ¡ Z • Z ¡ • ó ¨ Where to From Here? ¨É Now we are ready to begin with the Classical Model that John Maynard Keynes found so objectionable. |
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http://academics.vmi.edu/econ/fd/classical.ppt
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| | Mises Economics Blog: Classical Economics vs. The Exploitation Theory |
| | I hope this helps, and maybe others can comment additionally on these issues. | | | Additionally, Starbucks does not have another line of products to help pay the freight, such as donuts, hamburgers, gasoline, or milk and sundries. | | | no, noone put a gun to his/her head, however there is the concept of economic "force" which libertarians reject, but most people would consider agressive. |
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| | Economics - Simple English Wikipedia |
| | Today's neo-liberal economists have lived through a long period of economic growth. | | | Economics is the study of how resources are distributed. | | | The two main branches of economics are microeconomics and macroeconomics. |
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| | New classical economics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | New Keynesian economics was developed partly in response to NCM – it strives to provide microfoundations for Keynesian economic analysis. | | | Such models have recently received severe neoclassical criticism, pointing to the clear disjuncture between microeconomic behavior and macroeconomic results, as indicated by Kirman (1992), and the fallacy of composition. | | | The most famous New Classical model is that of Real Business Cycles, developed by Robert Lucas, Jr. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_classical_economics
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| | The Classical Ricardians |
| | The Mercantilist economic policies of the British state had led to a rebellion and now the colonists established a home-grown liberal republican government more-or-less dedicated to laissez-faire and free trade. | | | Say's approach, disputing the labor theory of value and focusing on supply-and-demand instead, was also advocated by a small group of economists at Oxford and Dublin. | | | Ricardo's system, however, was improved very little by his followers. |
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http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/schools/ricardian.htm
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| | History of Economics: History of Economics Resources: Classical School |
| | "Classical Economics" is usually understood to include a group of primarily British political economists following Adam Smith. | | | Brief summary of Smith's life and work, provided by the Joint Economic Committee of the US Senate. | | | While there is no clear ending date for the School, the emergence of marginalism in the 1870s is often taken as the signal of a new theoretical orientation. |
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http://www.eh.net/HE/he_resources/classical.php
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| | How the Dismal Science Got Its Name: Classical Economics and the Ur-Text of Racial Politics |
| | David M. Levy, Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University and Research Associate of the Center for the Study of Public Choice, has written numerous articles and books on the history of economic thought, works that are most imaginative in their arguments. | | | This work may be copied for non-profit educational uses if proper credit is given to the author and the list. | | | The focus on the proslavery belief of the critics of capitalism is the most-frequently discussed issue in this book. |
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| | On Classical Economics |
| | On Classical Economics is a book from which students can learn both history and economics. | | | The classical era in the history of economics is an important part of the history of ideas in general, and its implications reach beyond the bounds of the economics profession. | | | Clear, engaging, and very readable, without being either cute or condescending, On Classical Economics can enable a course on the history of economic thought to make a contribution to students’ understanding of economics in general--whether in price theory, monetary theory, or international trade. |
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http://yalepress.yale.edu/YupBooks/book.asp?isbn=0300113161
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| | O'Brien, D.P.: The Classical Economists Revisited. |
| | A seminal contribution to the field, this book will be treasured for many years to come by economists, historians of economics, instructors and their students, and anyone interested in the sweeping breadth and enduring influence of the classical economists. | | | The Classical Economists Revisited conveys the extent, diversity, and richness of the literature of economics produced in the period extending from David Hume's Essays of 1752 to the final contributions of Fawcett and Cairnes in the 1870s. | | | "[F]rom now on all histories of economic thought can start their story in 1870, because it is difficult to see how anyone can improve on Professor O'Brien's analysis of the century that preceded it."--Mark Blaug, Economica |
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| | The Classical Ricardian System |
| | The theory of value and distribution was really the central core of the analysis of the Classics, try as they might to conceal their objects under other names." | | | Now, in sober seriousness, we must ask how is this more consistent with scientific morality than cheating at cards, or forgery, or issuing base coin." | | | (Henry Dunning Macleod, History of Economics, 1896: p.123) |
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| | Unbeknownst to Me: Classical Music != Classical Liberal Economics |
| | Or stuff about Macs, libertarianism, prog rock, cockatiels, mountains, travel, science fiction, the Web, and what a totally awesome guy I would be if I were anything like I would like to think I am. | | | Unbeknownst to Me: Classical Music != Classical Liberal Economics | | | He then disagrees with things that no rational actor should, perhaps endangering a few political science and economics models |
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http://www.sfsmith.com/blog/archives/000080.html
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