A History of Economic Thought: From Aristotle to Arrow - Hardcover

"Staley's goal is above all to show the student that economic thought has a fascinating history, and he has succeeded well." The Economic Journal "One of the best undergraduate textbooks on the history of economics to have appeared in the last few years." Mark Blaug, University of London

A History of Economic Thought is a text for undergraduate history of economic thought courses. It covers the major writers and schools of thought: in doing so, it reveals not only ideas, but relevant stories of the lives of the great economic thinkers. It offers a comprehensive coverage of the latest technical advances in economic theory including contemporary developments in microeconomics as well as discussions of the rational expectations revolution.Contemporary economics, although written in a mathematical language not used by most economists in the long history of the subject, is a continuation of many of the concerns of the past, and the text explores the ways in which the economics of our age - indeed, any age - develops out of both the writings of the past and the concerns of the present.