Ebook: Complexity and the History of Economic Thought

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of contributors; Preface; Introduction; Introduction to complexity and the history of thought; What is complexity?; A thumbnail sketch of the history of thought from a complexity perspective; Specific economists and complexity; Charles Babbage in a complex world; Did Marx know the way to Santa Fe? Reflections on evolution, functionalism, and class consciousness; Complexity in Peirce's economics and philosophy: an exploration of his critique of Simon Newcomb; The premature death of path dependence;This book consists of twelve studies on the issues of complexity and the history of economic thought. The studies relate complexity to the ideas of specific economists such as Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Alfred Marshall and Ragnar Frisch.