The making of modern economics : the lives and ideas of the great thinkers
Mark Skousen
- 3rd ed.
- New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, c2016.
- viii, 501 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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.
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.