NPTEL : History of Economic Theory (Humanities and Social Sciences)

Co-ordinators : Prof. S.S. SivaKumar


Lecture 1 - The Socio-Economic Role of Scarcity and Uncertainty

Lecture 2 - The Process of Construction of Knowledge

Lecture 3 - The Roles of Faith and Experience

Lecture 4 - From Orphism to the Milesians in ancient Greece

Lecture 5 - Pythagoras and Heraclitus

Lecture 6 - From Parmenides to the atomists

Lecture 7 - From the ancient Greece to the emergence of Feudalism

Lecture 8 - Feudalism and the growth of the Church

Lecture 9 - The age of Faith: Europe until the crusades

Lecture 10 - The beginnings of modernity

Lecture 11 - Scholasticism and St.Thomas

Lecture 12 - Transformation of Europe towards modernity

Lecture 13 - Birth of political economy: mercantilism

Lecture 14 - The debate over mercantilism: Hume and Cantillon

Lecture 15 - A postscript to mercantilism: Hume and James Stewart

Lecture 16 - ‘Natural Order’ and the market: Quesney and Galiani

Lecture 17 - Smith: the Invisible Hand

Lecture 18 - Smith: Growth theory, long run equilibrium and Institutions

Lecture 19 - Ricardo-Malthus debate

Lecture 20 - Ricardian economics and more

Lecture 21 - Equilibrium of the market: from Say to Walras

Lecture 22 - More on Equilibrium: Cournot, Dupuit, Gossen, von Thunen

Lecture 23 - Socialists and Marx

Lecture 24 - The economics of Marx

Lecture 25 - Marx as an ideologue of revolution

Lecture 26 - Arrival of modern universals in Economics: Neo classical school

Lecture 27 - Economic Theory at the time arrival of Keynes

Lecture 28 - The centrality of the idea of efficiency in the study of market

Lecture 29 - Keynesian Revolution: Macroeconomics

Lecture 30 - Keynesian economics

Lecture 31 - Economics of Institutions

Lecture 32 - Transaction cost and Economic Anthropology approaches

Lecture 33 - Evolutionary Economics: the idea of change as evolution

Lecture 34 - From Schumpeter to neo Schumpetarian evolutionism

Lecture 35 - The social construction of knowledge: Case of Economics

Lecture 36 - The social construction of knowledge: Adaptation and Revolution