Readings in the economics of the division of labor The classical tradition /

Study of the progressive division of labor is a burgeoning industry in economics in recent years. Classical authors, dating back as early as 500 BC, have made insightful analyses on the determinants and implications of the division of labor. Unfortunately these writings are rather scattered and not...

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Other Authors: Sun, Guang-Zhen
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, 2005.
Series:Increasing returns and inframarginal economics ; 2.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Economics of division of labor from Xenophon to Hayek (1945) : a review of selected literature / Guang-Zhen Sun
  • From Cyropaedia and Oeconomicus / Xenophon
  • From The Republic / Plato
  • From Politica / Aristotle
  • From The Muqaddimah / Ibn Khaldūn
  • From Political Arithmetic and Another Essay on Political Arithmetic : concerning the growth of the city of London / William Petty
  • From considerations upon the East-India Trade / Henry Martyn
  • From The Fable of the Bees / Bernard Mandeville
  • From "Art" in Encyclopedie / Diderot and d'Alembert
  • From A System of Moral Philosophy / Francis Hutcheson
  • From An Essay on the History of Civil Society / Adam Ferguson
  • From Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Riches / Anne Robert Jacques Turgot
  • From An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations / Adam Smith
  • From The Principle of Political Economy and Taxation / David Ricardo
  • From The Economy of Machinery and Manufactures / Charles Babbage
  • From The Philosophy of Manufactures / Andrew Ure
  • From A Commentary on an Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations / Edward Gibbon Wakefield
  • From Principles of Political Economy / John Stuart Mill
  • From Capital / Karl Marx
  • From Science of Wealth / Amasa Walker
  • From Principles of Economics / Alfred Marshall
  • Laws of returns under competitive conditions / Piero Sraffa
  • Increasing returns and economic progress / Allyn Young
  • On the origin of money / Carl Menger
  • Use of knowledge in society / Friedrich A. Hayek.