History of Economic Thought

Course overview and objectives
This course attempts a description of the evolution of the main references of economic theory. Starting in Antiquity, main stress will be placed on the classical and neoclassical schools, analyzing directly the main texts of the basic authors of the science, describing the evolution of Economic Theory. The method used will be oral exposition by the teacher, discussing some specific quotations from each of the books selected.It should be also said that this course is particularly boring and dangerous; boring because will be reading old books by dead people; dangerous because we will be learning wrong and outdated theories. Enter at your peril!!

Course Content:
Class 1
0. INTRODUCTION 
0.1. Presentation of the course
0.2. Why study History of Economic Theory?
0.3. Thought, Analysis and Ideology 

Class 2
1. THE ORIGINS 
1.1. Aristotle

Class 3
1.2. St. Thomas Aquinas 

Class 4
2. PRE-CLASSIC ECONOMICS 
2.1. Mercantilists

Class 5
2.2. Physiocracy

Class 6,7
ADAM SMITH 

Class 8
4. THE CLASSIC SCHOOL
4.1. The Postulates of Nassau Senior 

Class 9
4.2. The Classical Model 

Class 10/11
4.3. David Ricardo

Class 12
4.4. John Stuart Mill 

Class 13/14
4.5. Karl Marx 

Class15
5. THE NEOCLASSICAL SCHOOL 
5.1. Antoine Cournot 
5.2. Marginal Revolution: Jevons, Menger and Walras

Class 16/17
 5.3. Alfred Marshall 

Class 17
5.4. F.Y. Edgeworth e V.Pareto

Class18
5.5. Knut Wicksell: Capital and Money 

Class19
5.6. Irving Fisher: Money and Capital 

Class 20
5.7. Joseph Schumpeter

Class 21
5.8. John Maynard Keynes

Class 22
5.9. The Neoclassical Synthesis

Class 23/24
5.10. Recent Advances in Theory
 

Grading
Final text 100%
Optional essay to be considered on the evaluation