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History of Economic Thought

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 114-0312/05
Abbreviation DET
Course title History of Economic Thought
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Economics
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Martin Macháček, Ph.D. et Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Ancient economic thought. Scholastics.
2. Mercantilism.
3. Physiocratism.
4. Classical School of Political Economy. A. Smith. D. Ricardo. J. S. Mill.
5. Neoclassical Economics. Cambridge School.
6. Neoclassical Economics. Lausanne School.
7. Theory of Imperfect and Monopolistic Competition.
8. Stockholm School of Economics.
9. Theory of John Maynard Keynes.
10. Neo-Keynesian Theory. Post-Keynesian Theory. New Keynesian Theory.
11. Monetarism.
12. Supply-side economics. New Classical Economics.
13. German Historical School. Institucionalism.
14. Czech Economic Thought.

Literature

1. EKELUND JR., Robert B. and Robert F. HÉBERT. A History of Economic Theory and Method. 6th ed. Waveland Press, 2013. ISBN 978-1478606383 .
2. HOLMAN, Robert. Dějiny ekonomického myšlení. 4. vyd. Praha: C. H. Beck, 2017. ISBN 978 -80-7400-641-8.
3. SOJKA, Milan. Dějiny ekonomických teorií. Praha: Havlíček Brain Team, 2010. ISBN 978-80-87109-21-2.

Advised literature

1. SIRŮČEK, Pavel. Průvodce dějinami standardních ekonomických teorií. 2. vyd. Slaný: Melandrium, 2003. ISBN 80-86175-35-9.
2. VENCOVSKÝ, František. Dějiny českého ekonomického myšlení do r. 1948. Brno: Nadace Universitas Masarykiana, 1997. ISBN 80-210-1624-8.
3. WHITE, Lawrence H. The Clash of Economic Ideas: The Great Policy Debates and Experiments of the Last Hundred Years. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. ISBN 978-1107621336 .