A history of Portuguese economic thought / Antonio Almodovar and Jose Luis Cardoso
- Bib ID:
- 1777533
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Almodovar, Antonio
- Description:
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- London ; New York : Routledge, 1998
- vi, 144 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0415178878
- Series:
- Routledge history of economic thought series.
- Full contents:
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- 1. The Golden Age and the mercantilist era (1500-1750). The medieval prelude. Discovering new economic worlds and new market relations. Maritime enterprise and the systems of insurance and exchange. Mercantilism in the making. Restoration and trade. Population and subsistences. Industry and the trade balance. Balance and conclusion
- 2. The new path to the wealth of the Portuguese nation (1750-1808). The legacy of Marques de Pombal. The Royal Academy of Sciences and the emergence of physiocratic influences. Political and financial constraints. Natural law, social order and legal despotism. Physiocracy and the emergence of political economy. The influence of Smith. Smith in the shadow: a theoretical pretext for economic policy debates. From economic liberalism to economic reform
- 3. The difficult reception of classical political economy (1810-1850). Old and new strategies for economic development. Political economy, industry and progress. Political economy and economic change.
- Institutional change and the role of political economy. The teaching system and the institutionalisation of political economy
- 4. The avoidance of analytical economic thought (1850-1920). Economics, politics and law. Nationalist, historical and socialist concerns. Socialist thought and state intervention. The state and the market: the role of competition and economic freedom. The formation of a plural canon. The difficult existence of a mathematical economist
- 5. From corporatism to Keynesian economics (1920-1960). The absence of neo-classical economics. Salazar and the rise of the corporative state. Political economy and the economic policies of corporatism. The ambiguous reception given to Keynesian ideas. The spread of Keynesian economics. Keynesianism, politics and economic policy. Concluding remarks: peaceful coexistence in 'the age of extremes'.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [127]-137) and indexes.
- Subject:
- Economics -- Portugal -- History
- Other authors/contributors:
- Cardoso, Jose Luis
- Copyright:
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