05-053 History of Economic Thought
first cycle professional study programme (Professional bachelor's degree) Management
Course Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Primož Šterbenc
Content
- Introduction: Explanation of basic terms: economics, philosophy, history
- The Importance of a historical and philosophical approach to the study of economics
- The beginnings of economic thought: Ancient economic debates: Plato, Aristotle, Xenophon
- Economy in Jewish-Christian tradition
- The protestant revolution: the beginnings of the creation of a modern business world: Weber's interpretation of Protestantism
- The precursors of modern economic thought: mercantilism, physiocrats; John Locke, David Hume
- Political economy: Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus, John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, David Ricardo
- The critique of brogue economy: Karl Marx
- The beginnings of economic science and the marginalist revolution (Carl Menger, Leon Walras, Stanley Jevons)
- Keynesian economics
- Neoliberal paradigm: Friedrich Hayek and Milton
Friedman