Web Syllabus(講義概要)

　History of Economics III investigates the history of economic thought mainly from Adam Smith to J.M. Keynes and after, focusing the issues of market and state, economics and ethics, growth and welfare. It largely deals with Adam Smith and the classical political economy, Malthus, Ricardo, and J.S. Mill; the historical school and Marx; Marshall, Pigou and the welfare economic studies; Keynes, Beveridge and the British welfare state; and Fukuda Tokuzo and the Japanese economic thought.
　History of Economics III will focus more on Adam Smith and the classical political economy; and History of Economic Thought IV will do more on the neo-classical school and Keynes.

　The main objectives are to acquire the basic knowledge of the history of economic thought from Adama Smith to Keynes and after, and to get to know how to access economics and economi thought from historical point of view.

　The examination in the final class hour (or the final essay) will be 60% and the mark given for class participation will be 40%.

　I don't use any one textbook, but distribute the notes and resume; and the main reference books will be Phyllis Deane『The State and the Economic System.An Introduction to History of Political Economy』Oxford, 1989; Roger Backhouse『the Penguin History of Economics』Penguin Books, 2002;
　R.E.Backhouse and T.Nishizawa『No Wealth but Life. Welfare Economics and the Welfare State in Britain』Cambridge, 2010.

　Readings of the notes and resume and the reference books as indicated in the class

　Participation to the class.