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Author Breit, William, author

Title The academic scribblers / William Breit, Roger L. Ransom
Edition Thid edition / with a new foreword by Robert M. Solow
Published Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, ©1998

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 282 pages)
Series Princeton legacy library
Princeton legacy library.
Contents Foreword / by Robert M. SoIow -- Preface to the first edition -- Preface to the second edition -- Introduction -- The pillars of neoclassical economics -- The eclipse of neoclassical economics -- The new economics -- The new neoclassicism -- Afterword : the academic scribblers after twenty-five years -- Index
Summary The Academic Scribblers offers a thoughtful and highly literate summary of modern economic thought. It presents the story of economics through the lives of twelve major modern economists, beginning with Alfred Marshall and concluding with Paul Samuelson and Milton Friedman. In a very real sense, this book picks up where Robert Heilbroner's classic The Wordly Philosophers leaves off. Whereas Heilbroner begins with Smith and ends with Joseph Schumpeter, Breit and Ransom bring the story of modern American and British economic theory up to the 1980s. The Academic Scribblers is an elegant summary of modern economic policy debate and an enticement into a happy engagement with the "dismal science" of economics."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject Economists -- United States -- Biography
Economics -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Economists -- Biography
Economics -- History -- 20th century.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic History.
Economics
Economists
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Solow, Robert M., writer of foreword
Ransom, Roger L., 1938- author.
ISBN 9781400864898
1400864895