A History of Economic Doctrines is a survey of economic thought by Charles Gide and Charles Rist, tracing the development of economic ideas from the Physiocrats to the authors' own time. Written as a series of essays, it offers a clear overview of major schools and thinkers. It is valuable for listeners interested in how economics took shape.
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Opening of the book
A HISTORY OF ECONOMIC DOCTRINES A HISTORY OF ECONOMIC DOCTRINES FROM THE TIME OF THE PHYSIOCRATS TO THE PRESENT DAY BY CHARLES GIDE PROFESSOR OF SOCIAL ECONOMICS IN THE FACULTY OF LAW UNIVERSITY OF PARIS AND CHARLES RIST PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL ECONOMY IN THE FACULTY OF LAW IN THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTPELLIER AUTHORISED TRANSLATION FROM THE SECOND REVISED AND AUGMENTED EDITION OF 1913 UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE LATE PROFESSOR WILLIAM SMART BY R. RICHARDS B.A. LECTURER IN THE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF
NORTH WALES D. C. HEATH AND COMPANY BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO DALLAS ATLANTA LONDON SAN FRANCISCO All rights reserved Printed in Great Britain at The Ballantyne Press by Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co. Ltd. Colchester, London & Eton PREFATORY NOTE Gide’s Principles of Political Economy, of which there are several translations, is probably better known to English students than any similar work of foreign origin on the subject, and many readers of that book will welcome an opportunity of perusing this volume which Professor Gide has produced in collaboration with Professor Rist. The remarkable dearth of literature of this kind in English may be pleaded in further extenuation of the attempt to present the work in an English garb, and readers of the Preface will be able to contrast the position in this country with the very different condition of things prevailing across the Channel. The contrast might even be carried a stage farther, and it would be interesting to speculate upon the historical causes which have made Germany supreme in the field of economic research and history, which influenced France in her choice of the history of theory, and which decreed that England should on the whole remain faithful to the tradition of the “pure doctrine.” Can it be that something like a “territorial division of labour” applies in matters intellectual as well as economic?
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