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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.