"Julio Huato" <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm writing a book on the conceptual foundations of economics, > intended for undergrad students who are taking their intro courses in > the discipline. The chapter linked below is one trying to pick out > salient developments in the history of economic doctrines. It is not > -- repeat, not -- an intro to Marxist economics or like thing. That > said, I'll truly appreciate your feedback---the more critical, the > better.
> http://bit.ly/18c3Mgp I prefer the spelling mercantilism over merchantilism or at least my spelling checker does. :-) I think that you need a Chapter 0 (separate from a preface) so that you can define the terms explicitly instead of making the reader get the basics implicitly from the history of economic thought. It would be nice to start by defining ecosystems and then add the human element by defining an economy as a controllable ecosystem. Discussing ecosystems allows introducing environmental concerns, such as Liebig's Law of the Minimum. The study of economics should be shown to require the use of the scientific method and hence, should be considered a science. There should be a distinction made between the type of economies such as hunter-gather, farming, herding, mercantile, serfs, capitalist and the theories about those economies such as mercantilism and classical. -- Ron
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