The prerequisite(s) for this Teaching Unit (Unité d’enseignement – UE) for the programmes/courses that offer this Teaching Unit are specified at the end of this sheet.
At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to : | |
| 1 | This course on the History of Economic Theories has two objectives. On the one hand, it aims to give students a view of how economic theories have developed, from the birth of Political Economics up to modern times. This should enable students to situate what they have learnt in their foundation courses within a broader framework and to relate it to the questions put by economists from previous generations. This historical approach will also provide an occasion for students to reflect critically on Economic Science, its objectives, methods, etc. They will have, for example, to investigate whether criticisms of economic methods, which tend to criticize its high degree of abstraction and mathematisation, are relevant. |
The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.
Coverage will be selective and mainly focused on Classical Economists and the Marginalist revolution.
R. Heilbroner, Teachings from the Wordly Philosophers, Norton, New York, 1996.
R. Heilbroner, The Worldy Philosophers, 7th edition, Touchstone, New York, 1999.
Additional readings
M. Blaug, Economic Theory in Retrospect, 5th edition, Cambridge University Press, 1996.
T. G. Buchholz, New Ideas from Dead Economists, Plume, New York, 2007.
J. K. Galbraith, Economics in Perspective: A Critical History, Houghton Mifflin, 1987.
