The Evolution of Economic Thought or The Prehistoric Exploration and Colonisation of the Pacific

The Evolution of Economic Thought

Author: Stanley Bru

The Evolution of Economic Thought, 6/e presents the history of economics and the philosophies that drive the economic way of thinking. It stresses the importance of understanding contemporary economics, by grasping new ideas, evidence, problems and values that call for reconsideration of basic disputes and major contributions of the past. The textbook explains the ideas of the great economic thinkers and their logical connections to the world of today and tomorrow. Updated pedagogial features provide clear insight into issues like antitrust perspectives and game theory. Introducing ideas like Robert Solow's pioneering model to discuss recent renewed emphasis on growth theory and technological change, the author sheds historical light on modern debates and thoughts. Stanley Brue once again carries on the legacy of Jacob Oser, the book's creator, by offering a scholarly and timely presentation of the history of economic thought.

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The Prehistoric Exploration and Colonisation of the Pacific

Author: Geoffrey Irwin

The exploration and colonization of the Pacific is a remarkable episode in human prehistory. Early sea-going explorers had no knowledge of Pacific geography, no instruments for measuring time and none for exploration. Forty years of modern archaeology, experimental voyages in rafts, and computer simulations of voyages have produced an normous range of literature on this controversial subject. This book represents a major advance in knowledge of the settlement of the Pacific by suggesting that exploration was rapid, purposeful and undertaken systematically, and that navigation methods progressively improved.

Table of Contents:

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1	An introduction to the Pacific and the theory of its settlement	1
2	Pleistocene voyaging and the settlement of Greater Australia and its Near Oceanic neighbours	18
3	Issues in Lapita studies and the background to Oceanic colonisation	31
4	Against, across and down the wind: a case for the systematic exploration of the remote Pacific	42
5	The colonisation of Eastern Melanesia, West Polynesia and Central East Polynesia	64
6	The colonisation of Hawaii, New Zealand and their neighbours	101
7	Issues in the colonisation of Micronesia	117
8	Voyaging by computer: experiments in the exploration of the remote Pacific Ocean	133
9	Voyaging after colonisation and the study of culture change	174
10	The rediscovery of Pacific exploration	205
	Bibliography	223
	Index	232