03467cam a2200433 i 4500 23179793 BJBSDDR 20250602141431.0 ta 230609s2024 njua b 001 0 eng d 2023940411 9780691252018 (paperback) 0691252017 (paperback) (OCoLC)on1376729864 YDX eng rda YDX OCLCO OCLCQ SFR OCLCO MDR SLV EEM OCLCQ MUU CDN DLC eng lccopycat HB 75 B126o 2024 330/.09 Backhouse, Roger (Roger Edward), 1951- 41815 The ordinary business of life : a history of economics from the ancient world to the twenty-first century / Roger E. Backhouse. New edition Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2024. x, 470 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-458) and index. Preface to the first edition -- Preface to the second edition -- Prologue -- The ancient world -- The Middle Ages -- The emergence of the modern world view : the sixteenth century -- Science, politics and trade in seventeenth-century England -- Absolutism and enlightenment in eighteenth-century France -- The Scottish Enlightenment of the eighteenth century -- The emergence of the political economy -- Mid-Victorian political economy -- The split between history and theory in Europe, 1870-1914 -- The rise of American economics, 1870-1939 -- Money and the business cycle, 1898-1945 -- Quantitative economics -- From Marshall to mathematical economics -- Welfare economics and socialism, 1870-1945 -- The second World War and after -- Markets and the state since 1945 -- Macroeconomics and policy, 1939-2008 -- Economics in the twenty-first century -- Epilogue. "Hesiod defined the basic economic problem as one of scarce resources, a view still held by economists today. Diocletian tried to save the Roman Empire with wage and price fixes--a strategy that has not gone entirely out of style. Roger Backhouse takes readers from the ancient world to the frontiers of game theory, mechanism design, and engagements with climate science, presenting an essential history of a discipline that economist Alfred Marshall called "the study of mankind in the ordinary business of life." Backhouse introduces the many fascinating figures who have thought about money and markets down through the centuries--from philosophers and theologians to politicians and poets--and shows how today's economic ideas have their origins in antiquity. This updated edition of The Ordinary Business of Life includes a new chapter on contemporary economics and the rest of the book has been thoroughly revised"-- Amazon. Economics History. Economía Historia 2369 Online version: Backhouse, Roger, 1951- Ordinary business of life. New edition; Second edition. Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2023] 9780691252025 (OCoLC)1410592825 7 cbc copycat 2 epcn 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK dpf 123302 123302 0 0 lcc 0 0 CS BJB BJB CS 2025-05-01 0 HB 75 B126o 2024 00000190379 2025-05-01 00:00:00 1 2025-05-01 BK