The division of labor in economics: a history
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Main Author: Sun, Guang-Zhen (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon Routledge 2012
Series:Routledge studies in the history of economics 142
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Online Access:TUM01
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Item Description:This book provides, for the first time, a systematic and comprehensive narrative of the history of one central idea in economics, namely the division of labor, over the past two and a half millennia, with special focus on that having occurred in the most recent two and a half centuries. Quite contrary to the widely held belief, the idea has a fascinating biography, much richer than that exemplified by the pin-making story that was popularized by Adam Smith's classical work published in 1776
Introduction -- Early analyses -- Mercantilists and the emergence of the political economy of the division of labor -- The Smithian economics of the division of labor and the market process : the principle -- Machinery and the factory system : Charles Babbage and Karl Marx on the division of labor in manufacturing -- Catallaxy and the division of knowledge : Hayek's insights -- Urbanization and industrialization -- Human capital, the extent of the market and economic growth -- Economic organization and the division of labor
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 258 pages)
ISBN:0203124278
0415449073
113634439X
9780203124277
9780415449076
9781136344398

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