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About Lord Meghnad Desai
The Academy’s Chairman is renowned academic Lord Meghnad Desai, Professor Emeritus at the London School of Economics. He has 38 years of teaching experience and is a life peer at the British House of Lords.
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Price – INR 2354.1 + 18% GST
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Lecture Plan
Lecture 1
Economist – Adam Smith
Work – Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. Published in two volumes (1776).
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Lecture 2
Economist – David Ricardo
Work – Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1817).
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Lecture 3
Economist – Karl Marx
Work – Capital Volume 1 (1867), Vol.2 (1885) Vol.3 (1894) .The collected works of Marx and Engels run into 49 volumes.
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Lectures 4 & 5
Economists – Neoclassical economists – Menger, Jevons, Walras, and Marshall
Work – Walrus (elements d’Economie politique pure – Elements of Pure Political Economy). Menger (Grundsatze der Volkwirtschaftslehre – Foundations of Political Economy). Jevon (The Theory of Political Economy). Marshall (The Principles of Economics).
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Lecture 6
Economists – Knut Wicksell & Schumpeter
Work – Wicksell (Interest and Prices: A Study of the Causes Regulating the Value of Money) & Schumpeter (Theory of Economic Development 1912 in German, 1934 in English).
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Schumpeter’s unique vision of capitalist development.
Lecture 7
Economist – John Maynard Keynes
Work – General Theory of Employment, Interest & Money (1936).
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Lecture 8
Economists – Harrod-Domar, Solow, Arthur Lewis
Work – Towards a Dynamic Economics (1949), Article written by Solow in the Quarterly Journal of Economics (1956) and Lewis’s article “Economic Development with Unlimited Supplies of Labour” (1954).
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Lecture 9
Economist – Milton Friedman
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Lecture 10
Time in Economic Analysis/Statics and Dynamics.
The concluding lecture is not pertaining to any economist but rather talks about the basic idea of time which different traditions in economics have had to deal with.
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