Ebook: Joseph A. Schumpeter: Perspectives on the History of Economic Thought

Cover; Title; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION; Part I Methods of scholarship; 1 ASSESSING THE REPRINTING OF SCHUMPETER'S HISTORY OF ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; 2 VISION AND PROGRESS IN ECONOMIC THOUGHT: SCHUMPETER AFTER KUHN; 3 SCHUMPETER'S TREATMENT OF NONMAINSTREAM AMERICAN ECONOMICS; 4 POPULARIZERS AS CONTRIBUTORS TO ECONOMICS: THE UNAPPRECIATED TRIBE; 5 THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF ECONOMICS: A METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH; Part II The ""great gap"" thesis revisited; 6 THE INACCURACY OF THE SCHUMPETERIAN GREAT GAP THESIS: ECONOMIC THOUGHT IN MEDIEVAL IRAN (PERSIA).;Joseph A. Schumpeter was one of the great economists of the twentieth century. His History of Economic Analsyis is perhaps the greatest contribution to the history of economics, providing a magisterial account of the development of the subject from Ancient Greece to the mid-twentieth century. Schumpeter's views on his predecessors have proved to be a constant source of controversy. Here individual chapters examine such disparate questions as Schumpeter's apparent disregard for the American Institutionalists, his grudging respect for Adam Smith, the perspicacity of his views of Que.