Douglas A. Irwin

Jacob Viner: Lectures in Economics 301 Douglas A. Irwin 1.º edición

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Review Quotes:"A valuable contribution to the understanding of how some of the main features of Chicago Economics took shape. They offer a remarkable and high-quality testimony on how microeconomics was taught in the early 1930s by one of the most distinguished (and eclectic) neoclassical economists of the interwar period." --Luca Fiorito and Sebastiano Nerozzi, Journal of Economic LiteratureTable of Contents: Acknowledgments Introduction - Douglas A. Irwin and Steven G. Medema Lectures in Economics 301 First Term Second Term Appendix: Assignments in Viner's Economics 301 References IndexPublisher Marketing: This book presents, for the first time, a detailed transcription of Jacob Viner's Economics 301 class as taught in 1930. These lecture notes provide insight into the legacy of Jacob Viner, whose seminal contributions to fields such as international economics and the history of economics are well known, but whose impact in sparking the revival of Marshallian microeconomics in the United States via his classroom teaching has been less appreciated. Generations of graduate students at the University of Chicago have taken Economics 301. The course has been taught by such luminaries as Milton Friedman and Gary Becker, and remains an introduction to the analytical tools of microeconomics and the distinctive Chicago way of thinking about the market system. This demanding and rigorous course first became famous in the 1930s when it was taught by Jacob Viner. When read in tandem with the Transaction editions of Milton Friedman's Price Theory, Frank Knight's The Economic Organization, and Gary Becker's Economic Theory, Viner's lectures provide the reader with important insights into the formative period of Chicago price theory. These recently discovered notes from Viner's class will be important for historians of economic thought and anyone interested in the origins of the Chicago School of Economics.

Contributor Bio:  Irwin, Douglas A Douglas A. Irwin is professor of economics at Dartmouth College and the author of "Against the Tide: An Intellectual History of Free Trade", "Peddling Protectionism: Smoot-Hawley and the Great Depression" (both Princeton), and "Trade Policy Disaster: Lessons from the 1930s". Contributor Bio:  Medema, Steven G Steven G. Medema is Distinguished Professor of Economics and the director of the University Honors and Leadership Program at the University of Colorado, Denver. The author of more than 100 books and articles, his latest book, The Hesitant Hand: Taming Self-Interest in the History of Economic Ideas (2009), was awarded the 2010 ESHET Book Prize. His articles have appeared in journals such as the Journal of the History of Economic Thought, History of Political Economy, the Journal of Economic Perspectives, and Economica. Dr Medema was elected president of the History of Economics Society for the 2009 10 term and served on its executive committee from 1999 to 2012. He also served on the scientific council of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET) and is currently a member of the ESHET executive committee. Dr Medema teaches courses in price theory and the history of economic thought and in 2008 was designated a University of Colorado President's Teaching Scholar. He is currently working on a book project tentatively titled, Legal Fiction: An Intellectual History of the Coase Theorem.