UST Econ Dept: Course Description

EC 301: History of Economic Thought


A survey of the content and method of economics and an analysis of the theories of the great economists from the ancient Greeks to the present: mercantilism, physiocracry, the classical school and its critics, particulary Marx; the amrginalist school; Alfred Marshall and Keynes, recent developments in economic thought.

Prerequisites: 251 and 252.


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