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040			_cCUS
082			_a330.15 _bFOL/A
100			_aFoley, Duncan K.
245		0	_a Adam's fallacy: a guide to economic theology/ _cDuncan K. Foley
260			_aCambridge: _bBelknap, _c2006.
300			_axv, 265 p. ; _c22 cm.
505			_aPreface -- 1. Adam's vision -- The division of labor -- The theory of value -- Capital accumulation -- The invisible hand and the state -- Smith's theory of money -- Adam's fallacy revisited -- 2. Gloomy science -- Second thoughts -- Malthus and population -- The context of Malthus's Essay -- Malthus's postulates -- Malthusian logic -- Population and food since Malthus's time -- Ricardo and the limits to growth -- Ricardo's labor theory of value -- Accumulation and the stationary state -- Ricardo's views on machinery -- The political economy of poverty -- 3. The severest critic -- Historical materialism -- The commodity and the theory of value -- Capitalist exploitation -- Accumulation and the falling rate of profit -- Primitive accumulation -- The transition to socialism -- Marx and proletarian revolution -- Marxist theory and social change -- 4. On the margins -- Adam's fallacy needs new shoes -- Marginalism -- Where do prices come from? -- Marginalism and social welfare -- Marginalism and time -- Veblen and conspicuous consumption. 5. Voices in the air -- John Maynard Keynes -- World capitalism in Keynes's time -- Say's law and laissez-faire -- Labor markets and unemployment -- Expectations and money -- The fate of capitalism -- Complexity vs. collectivism -- The prophet of technology -- 6. Grand illusions -- Looking in the mirror -- Two-armed economists -- Escaping Adam's fallacy -- Face to face with Adam's curse -- Reading further -- Appendix -- Demographic equilibrium -- Theories of money and prices -- Ricardo's theory of rent and accumulation -- Decomposition of the value of commodities -- The working day -- Index.
650			_aEconomics--Philosophy
650			_aSchools of economics
650			_aEconomics
942			_cWB16