Class Introduction to Economic Thought

This curricular unit has as main objectives:

• Identify and analyze the primary and secondary sources of economic thinking.

• Explain the historical component of economic theories.

• Compare the cumulative and conflicting nature of different economic models.

• List the different themes of economic thinking.

• Sources and Methodology of the History of Economic Thought.

• Pre-classical thinking: from Aristotle to Bodin.

• From classics to marginalists.

• From Marshallian economics to Keynesianism.

• From Welfare Economics to New Economies

Students should find news in which the ideas of the various authors mentioned are patent, thus giving a realistic and pertinent nature to the UC.  

• Alternatives Economiques (2012). Les grands auteurs de la pensée económique. Paris: AE-Poche.
• Blaug, Mark (1989). História do pensamento económico, 1º e 2º Volume, Publicações. Lisboa: Dom Quixote.
• Denis, Henri (1993). História do pensamento económico. Lisboa: Livros Horizonte.
• Backhouse, Roger, E. (2007). História da economia mundial. São Paulo: Estação Liberdade.
• Heilbroner, R. (1996). História do pensamento económico. São Paulo: Editora Nova Cultural.

Hunt, E. & Lautzenheiser, M. (2013). História do pensamento económico: uma perspectiva crítica. England: Elsevier.