PPT-  Economic History (Master PPD & APE, Paris School of Economics)

Thomas Piketty Academic year 20162017 Lecture 3 The dynamics of capital accumulation private vs public capital and the Great Transformation check on line for updated versions Roadmap of lecture . Presentation . 7. Petr. Wawrosz. German Historical School. Absolutist versus relativist approach. Absolutist approach: tends to believe that there are some objective, absolute “facts or truths” about the perceptions and patterns of economic behavior that cross cultural, temporal and social boundaries. These beliefs and patterns of behavior are perceived as universal. They are believed to apply in every society at all times in similar ways.. History of Economic Thought. Transparencies. Set 1. What is it?. “…the history of the intellectual efforts that men have made in order to understand economic phenomena…”. Why study it?. “Current work, so one would think, will preserve whatever is still useful of the work of preceding generations … Why then should we go back to old authors and rehearse outmoded views? Cannot the old stuff be safely left to the care of a few specialists who love it for its own sake? ” . Chapter 1: The Nature and Method of Economics. Why Economics?. Advise government policy. Increase informed citizenship. Unemployment, inflation, growth, taxation, poverty, trade, regulation, education… . Objectives. To understand the concept ceteris paribus. To understand the difference between positive and normative statements. ‘. Free school meals for children at infant school will reduce the cost burden in the future for the NHS’. . in the Twentieth CenturyProfessor Joel Mokyr/Marlous van WaijenburgWinter 2014Note This course is a survey of some of the main issues of the Industrialized World in the period 1890-1989 Each week a di A. . Bozio. , J. . Grenet. , T. Piketty. Academic year 2016-2017 . Syllabus & Course Material. (check . on line. for updated versions). Email : . piketty@psemail.eu. Office: . Jourdan. B101. Course web page : . Capital, Inequality, Growth. (Master APE & PPD) . (EHESS & Paris School of Economics). Thomas Piketty. Academic year . 2021-2022. Syllabus & Reading List . (check . on line. for updated version). (Master PPD & APE, Paris School of Economics). Thomas Piketty. Academic year . 2016-2017 . Lecture 2: Normative theories of social and fiscal justice in historical perspective . . (check . on line. & APE. ). . (. EHESS & Paris . School of Economics). Thomas Piketty. Academic year 2017-2018 . Lecture 8: Normative and intertemporal theories of social and fiscal justice . . (check . on line. (Master APE & PPD, Paris School of Economics). Thomas Piketty. Academic year 2016-2017. Syllabus & Reading list. (check . on line. for updated version). Email : . piketty@psemail.eu. Office : . (Master PPD & APE, Paris School of Economics). Thomas . Piketty. Academic year 2014-2015. Syllabus & Course Material. (check . on line. for updated versions). Email : . piketty@psemail.eu. Office hours: Tuesdays 9h-12h, . (Master PPD & APE, Paris School of Economics). Thomas . Piketty. Academic year 2013-2014 . Lecture 1: Income, capital and growth. (Tuesday November 26. th. 2013). (check . on line. for updated versions). Professor Carol Newman. Head of Department of Economics. What prompted the start of this sustained increase in living standards?. Why did it happen in some countries at certain times and not at all in others?. (Master PPD & APE, Paris School of Economics). Thomas Piketty. Academic year 2014-2015 . Lecture 1: Taxes & transfers: . why & how much?. (December 9. th. 2014). . (check . on line. for updated versions).