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The making of modern economics : the lives and ideas of the great thinkers /
"Provides an accessible introduction to the major economic thinkers of the past 225 years - including little-known and often amusing facts about their personal lives"--Publisher description
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Armonk, N.Y. :
M.E. Sharpe,
©2009.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of 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.