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The hesitant hand : taming self-interest in the history of economic ideas / Steven G. Medema.
LIBRA HB95 .M43 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Medema, Steven G.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Free enterprise--History.
- Free enterprise.
- History.
- Economic policy--History.
- Economic policy.
- Economics--History.
- Economics.
- Economic history.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 230 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- Adam Smith and his ancestors
- Harnessing self-interest: Mill, Sidgwick, and the evolution of the theory of market failure
- Marginalizing the market: Marshall, Pigou, and the Pigovian tradition
- Marginalizing government I: from La Scienza delle Finanze to Wicksell
- Coase's challenge
- Marginalizing government II: the rise of public choice analysis
- Legal fiction: the Coase theorem and the evolution of law and economics.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780691122960
- 0691122962
- OCLC:
- 276340770
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