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| LC control number |
2008061114 |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780765645449 |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780765622273 (pbk.) |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0765622270 |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0765622262 |
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| Call number |
330/.09 |
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| Authors |
Skousen, Mark |
| TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The making of modern economics : |
| Subtitle |
the lives and ideas of the great thinkers |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Mark Skousen |
| EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition |
3rd ed. |
| PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication |
New York : |
| Publisher |
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, |
| Date |
c2016. |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
viii, 501 p. : |
| Other Details |
ill. ; |
| Size |
24 cm. |
| CONTENTS |
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| 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: market economies face new challenges. |
| SUMMARY |
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| Summary |
Discusses the development of economic thought, using the construction of a building as an analogy and describing Adam Smith's 1776 "Wealth of Nations" as the foundation, with information on a variety of theorists and their ideas that either added to or detracted from those of Smith. |
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| Topical Heading |
Economics |
| General |
History |
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| Topical Heading |
Economics |
| General |
Philosophy |
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Economists |
| Geographic |
Biography |
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| Topical Heading |
Economics |
| ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier |
https://uowd.box.com/s/dwwl7wpag5q1dnxa8tb3j6ubfj3sh1ah |
| Public note |
Location Map |
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