Dr Huei-chun Su, CMK. C316

Optional for BSc Econometrics and Mathematical Economics, BSc Economics, BSc Economic History, BSc Economic History with Economics, BSc Economics and Economic History, BSc Economics with Economic History, BSc Government and Economics, BSc Philosophy and Economics, BSc Social Policy and Economics and other students by permission of the course lecturer. This course is capped

The course examines the ways in which economics has developed from the Mercantilists of the 17th century to the Neoclassical thinking of the later 20th century.

The course will explore how the theories, concepts and methods of economics have changed over the last 250 years. We will use the original texts in order to understand how economists of the past approached perennial questions (about for example, the sources of growth or the role of money) and resolved them in the context of the scientific thinking and the economic conditions of their own time and place.

Lectures EC311: 20 weekly MT and LT.

Classes EC311.A: 20 MT and LT.

Students will be expected to discuss assigned texts and produce several pieces of written work.

A reading list of original texts and secondary literature will be given at the beginning of the course. For an introduction, students may read R L Heilbroner's, The Worldly Philosophers; for general background, consult Roger E Backhouse's, The Penguin History of Economics or David Colander & Harry Landreth's, History of Economic Thought.

A three-hour written examination in the ST.