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The making of modern economics : the lives and ideas of the great thinkers

Title: The making of modern economics : the lives and ideas of the great thinkers / Mark Skousen.
Author: Skousen, Mark.
Publication: Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, [2001], ©2001.

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Description

xv, 487 pages : illustrations, portraits; 25 cm

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Contents

1. It All Started with Adam -- 2. The French Connection: Laissez Faire Avance! -- 3. The Irreverent Malthus Challenges the New Model of Prosperity -- 4. Tricky Ricardo Takes Economics Down a Dangerous Road -- 5. Milling Around: John Stuart Mill and the Socialists Search for Utopia -- 6. Marx Madness Plunges Economics into a New Dark Age -- 7. Out of the Blue Danube: Menger and the Ausrians Reverse the Tide -- 8. Marshalling the Troops: Scientific Economics Comes of Age -- 9. Go West, Young Man: Americans Solve the Distribution Problem in Economics -- 10. The Conspicuous Veblen Versus the Protesting Weber: Two Critics Debate the Meaning of Capitalism -- 11. The Fisher King Tries to Catch the Missing Link in Macroeconomics -- 12. The Missing Mises: Mises (and Wicksell) Make a Major Breakthrough -- 13. The Keynes Mutiny: Capitalism Faces Its Greatest Challenge -- 14. Paul Raises the Keynesian Cross: Samuelson and Modern Economics --
15. Milton's Paradise: Friedman Leads a Monetary Counterrevolution -- 16. The Creative Destruction of Socialism: The Dark Vision of Joseph Schumpeter -- 17. Dr. Smith Goes to Washington: The Triumph of Market Economics.

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00059532

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Columbia University Libraries