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The academic scribblers
- Title
- The academic scribblers / William Breit, Roger L. Ransom ; with a new foreword by Robert M. Solow.
- Author
- Breit, William.
- Publication
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1998.
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- Additional Authors
- Ransom, Roger L., 1938-
- Description
- xvii, 282 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- The Academic Scribblers offers a thoughtful and highly literate summary of modern economic thought. It presents the story of economics through the lives of twelve major modern economists, beginning with Alfred Marshall and concluding with Paul Samuelson and Milton Friedman. In a very real sense, this book picks up where Robert Heilbroner's classic The Wordly Philosophers leaves off.
- Whereas Heilbroner begins with Smith and ends with Joseph Schumpeter, Breit and Ransom bring the story of modern American and British economic theory up to the 1980s.
- Subject
- Note
- Originally published: Chicago : Dryden Press, c1982. With a new foreword and with a new afterword by the authors.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Foreword / Robert M. Solow. Ch. 1. Introduction -- Pt. 1. The Pillars of Neoclassical Economics. Ch. 2. The Intellectual Gantry of Neoclassical Economic Policy. Ch. 3. Alfred Marshall - Exemplar of Neoclassical Economic Thought -- Pt. 2. The Eclipse of Neoclassical Economics. Ch. 4. Thorstein Veblen - The Abrogation of Consumer Sovereignty. Ch. 5. Arthur Cecil Pigou - Externalities in Production. Ch. 6. Edward Hastings Chamberlin - The Wastes of Competition. Ch. 7. John Maynard Keynes - Unemployment in Equilibrium -- Pt. 3. The New Economics. Ch. 8. Alvin H. Hansen - The American Keynes. Ch. 9. Paul A. Samuelson - From Economic Wunderkind to Policymaker. Ch. 10. Abba P. Lerner - The Artist as Economist. Ch. 11. John Kenneth Galbraith - Economist as Social Critic -- Pt. 4. The New Neoclassicism. Ch. 12. Frank H. Knight - Philosopher of the Counterrevolution in Economics. Ch. 13. Henry C. Simons - Radical Proponent of Laissez-faire.
- Ch. 14. Milton Friedman - Classical Liberal as Economic Scientist. Ch. 15. Conclusion. Afterword: The Academic Scribblers after Twenty-Five Years.
- ISBN
- 0691059861 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 98025286
- OCLC
- 39195438
- ocm39195438
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries