ECO 390 - History of Economic Thought

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CUNY College of Staten Island

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4 hours; 4 credits The development of economic thought from antiquity to modern times. Emphasis on the contrast and similarities between such divergent schools of thought as mercantilism, the physiocratic school, the classical school, the socialist school, the historical school, and the neoclassical school. Prominent thinkers such as Aristotle, Aquinas, Mun, Hume, Quesnay, Adam Smith, Ricardo, Malthus, Mill, Cournot, von Thunen, Marx, Menger, Jevons, Walras, Marshall, Keynes, Samuelson, Schumpeter, and von Hayek will be discussed, as will the periodic resurgence of various themes and the links between economic thought and economic history. Prerequisites: ECO 210 and ECO 212, or permission of the instructor

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.csi.cuny.edu

Phone Number:

(718) 982-2000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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