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New ideas from dead economists : an introduction to modern economic thought / by Todd G. Buchholz ; with a foreword by Martin Feldstein.
LIBRA HB76 .B83 2007
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Buchholz, Todd G.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economists--Biography.
- Economists.
- Economics--History.
- Economics.
- History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 346 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- Completely revised and updated.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Plume, [2007]
- Summary:
- A reexamination of the major economic theories of the past two hundred years discusses how long-dead, famous economists such as Adam Smith and others would handle today's economic problems.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The plight of the economist
- The second coming of Adam Smith
- Malthus : prophet of doom and population boom
- David Ricardo and the cry for free trade
- The stormy mind of John Stuart Mill
- The angry oracle called Karl Marx
- Alfred Marshall and the marginalist mind
- Old and new institutionalists
- Keynes : bon vivant as savior
- Milton Friedman and the monetarist battle against Keynes
- The Public Choice school : politics as a business
- The wild world of rational expectations and behavioral economics
- Dark clouds, silver linings.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780452288447
- 0452288444
- OCLC:
- 123345109
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