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The making of modern economics : the lives and ideas of the great thinkers / Mark Skousen.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Edition: Second editionDescription: xv, 494 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0765622262
  • 9780765622266
  • 0765622270
  • 9780765622273
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330.09 22
LOC classification:
  • HB75 .S545 2009
Contents:
It all started with Adam -- The French connection: laissez faire avance! -- The irreverent Malthus challenges the new model of prosperity -- Tricky Ricardo takes economics down a dangerous road -- Milling around: John Stuart Mill and the Socialists search for Utopia -- Marx madness plunges economics in to a New Dark Age -- Out of the blue Danube: Menger and the Austrians reverse the tide -- Marshalling the troops: Scientific economics comes of age -- Go West, young man: Americans solve the distribution problem in economics -- The conspicuous Veblen versus the protesting Weber: Two critics debate the meaning of Capitalism -- The Fisher King tries to catch the missing link in macroeconomics -- The missing Mises: Mises (and Wicksell) make a major breakthrough -- The Keynes mutiny: Capitalism faces its greatest challenge -- Paul raises the Keynesian cross: Samuelson and modern economics -- Milton's Paradise: Friedman leads a monetary counterrevolution -- The creative destruction of Socialism: The dark vision of Joseph Schumpeter -- Dr. Smith goes to Washington: The near triumph of market economics.
Summary: Here is a history of economics - the dramatic story of how the great economic thinkers built today's rigorous social science. Noted financial writer and economist Mark Skousen has revised and updated this work to provide more material on Adam Smith and Karl Marx.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

It all started with Adam -- The French connection: laissez faire avance! -- The irreverent Malthus challenges the new model of prosperity -- Tricky Ricardo takes economics down a dangerous road -- Milling around: John Stuart Mill and the Socialists search for Utopia -- Marx madness plunges economics in to a New Dark Age -- Out of the blue Danube: Menger and the Austrians reverse the tide -- Marshalling the troops: Scientific economics comes of age -- Go West, young man: Americans solve the distribution problem in economics -- The conspicuous Veblen versus the protesting Weber: Two critics debate the meaning of Capitalism -- The Fisher King tries to catch the missing link in macroeconomics -- The missing Mises: Mises (and Wicksell) make a major breakthrough -- The Keynes mutiny: Capitalism faces its greatest challenge -- Paul raises the Keynesian cross: Samuelson and modern economics -- Milton's Paradise: Friedman leads a monetary counterrevolution -- The creative destruction of Socialism: The dark vision of Joseph Schumpeter -- Dr. Smith goes to Washington: The near triumph of market economics.

Here is a history of economics - the dramatic story of how the great economic thinkers built today's rigorous social science. Noted financial writer and economist Mark Skousen has revised and updated this work to provide more material on Adam Smith and Karl Marx.

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