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The Socio-Economic Role of Scarcity and Uncertainty
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History of Economic Theory
The Socio-Economic Role of Scarcity and Uncertainty
The Process of Construction of Knowledge
The Roles of Faith and Experience
From Orphism to the Milesians in ancient Greece
Pythagoras and Heraclitus
From Parmenides to the atomists
From the ancient Greece to the emergence of Feudalism
Feudalism and the growth of the Church
The age of Faith: Europe until the crusades
The beginnings of modernity
Scholasticism and St.Thomas
Transformation of Europe towards modernity
Birth of political economy: mercantilism
The debate over mercantilism: Hume and Cantillon
A postscript to mercantilism: Hume and James Stewart
‘Natural Order’ and the market: Quesney and Galiani
Smith: the Invisible Hand
Smith: Growth theory, long run equilibrium and Institutions
Ricardo-Malthus debate
Ricardian economics and more
Equilibrium of the market: from Say to Walras
More on Equilibrium: Cournot, Dupuit, Gossen, von Thunen
Socialists and Marx
The economics of Marx
Marx as an ideologue of revolution
Arrival of modern universals in Economics: Neo classical school
Economic Theory at the time arrival of Keynes
The centrality of the idea of efficiency in the study of market
Keynesian Revolution: Macroeconomics
Keynesian economics
Economics of Institutions
Transaction cost and Economic Anthropology approaches
Evolutionary Economics: the idea of change as evolution
From Schumpeter to neo Schumpetarian evolutionism
The social construction of knowledge: Case of Economics
The social construction of knowledge: Adaptation and Revolution
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Dear Sir, i wish to have a deeper conceptual clarity of cause n evolution of various business cycles and the logic of transformation from one phase to another and if any control measures to these
By:
mahesh
Date:
2012-09-13
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answer already sent to your mail ID
By:
Prof. S.S.SivaKumar
Date:
2012-09-15
Question:
Dear Sir, In the beginning part of the first lecture, you emphasized that economic growth gives rise to uncertainty. But in the later part you said that in the modern world, we can be certain of things like having a morning coffee etc. when we wake up. Isn't this contradictory.
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Ramakrishna Badam
Date:
2012-11-27
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Dr. SivaKumar, I have enjoyed your lectures very much. Could you please direct me to where I may find more of your work? Thanks very much! -grateful student
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