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Understanding the differences between economic schools

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Feminist economics, welfare economics, classical, neoclassical, Keynesian....

 

Any suggestions on how to identify the essential differences? I'd like a way to integrate all this knowledge of the different schools as opposed to learning so many random facts about different economists.

 

 

 

 

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Searching on Amazon for "History of Economic Thought" pulls up quite a list. "The Making of Modern Economics" by Mark Skousen is a good, and brief history.
For free, you can check out "A History of Economic Doctrine" by Gide. It ends in the early 1900's, but it is pretty detailed. 

This search on archive.org will bring up other books on Economic History.

 

Probably, the best approach is to get some general broad understanding of the history, from a book like Skousen's, and then focus on the main schools that have dominated the 20th century and are still doing so: i.e. Keynesianism and Monetarism, with Austrians as third-place counter-point.

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