
History of Economic Thought
Program: Managerial Economics
ECTS: 2
Lecturer: Mateusz Machaj PhD
Email: mateusz.machaj@uwr.edu.pl
Type: Optional
Level: Advanced
Personal information:
https://prawo.uni.wroc.pl/user/14603
External links:
http://mises.pl/
Classes
Number of hours: 2h X 8 weeks = 16 hours ( semesters)
Contents:
1. Pre-economic thought.
2. Cantillon, Turgot and French Physiocrats.
3. Mercantillism versus Hume and Smith.
4. Adam Smith and founding of economics.
5. Ricardo, Malthus and Marx.
6. Marginalism.
7. Neoclassical theory and heterodoxy.
8. Keynes and Macroeconomics.
9. Friedman and Macroeconomics.
Recommended reading:
H. Landreth, D. C. Colander, The History of Economic Thought.