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Another example of a model in ecological economics is the doughnut model from economist Kate Raworth. This macroeconomic model includes planetary boundaries, like climate change into its model. These macroeconomic models from ecological economics, although more popular, are not fully accepted by mainstream economic thinking.
The history of economic thought is the study of the philosophies of the different thinkers and theories in the subjects that later became political economy and economics, from the ancient world to the present day. This field encompasses many disparate schools of economic thought.
A series on Economic history: History of finance; History of banking; List of oldest banks; History of credit unions; History of private equity; Bubbles and Crashes; Tulip mania; Stock market bubble; South Sea Bubble; Panic of 1837; Wall Street Crash of 1929; 2007–2008 financial crisis; History of insurance; History of accounting
Description: A political-economic treatise by Karl Marx. Marx wrote this critical analysis of capitalism and of the political economy from the perspective of historical materialism, the view that history can be understood as a sequence of modes of production in which exploiting classes extract an economic surplus from exploited classes.
The first president of the Economic History Association, Edwin F. Gay, described the aim of economic history as to provide new perspectives in the economics and history disciplines: 'An adequate equipment with two skills, that of the historian and the economist, is not easily acquired, but experience shows that it is both necessary and possible ...
In the history of economic thought, a school of economic thought is a group of economic thinkers who share or shared a mutual perspective on the way economies function. While economists do not always fit within particular schools, particularly in the modern era, classifying economists into schools of thought is common.
An Economic History of the World Since 1400 (2016) online 48 university lectures; Liss, Peggy K. Atlantic Empires: The Network of Trade and Revolution, 1713–1826 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983). Neal, Larry, and Rondo Cameron. A Concise Economic History of the World: From Paleolithic Times to the Present (5th ed. 2015) 3003 edition online
The economic history of the United States spans the colonial era through the 21st century. The initial settlements depended on agriculture and hunting/trapping, later adding international trade, manufacturing, and finally, services, to the point where agriculture represented less than 2% of GDP .