Great Economists before Keynes FROM THE PUBLISHER
Great Economists Before Keynes is an extensive and much acclaimed guide providing authoritative intellectual biographies together with portraits of 100 great economists of the past. This important book not only includes entries on familiar names, such as Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Karl Marx and Leon Walras, but also includes descriptions of less well known yet equally important economists. Mark Blaug demonstrates that modern economics is an accumulated heritage of specific ideas of individual economists. Mark Blaug has brought his formidable powers to bear on the history of economics producing a companion that nobody interested in economics will want to be without. The reprint of this classic work will be an essential reference source for instructors, researchers and students of economics.
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This reprint of a volume first published in Britain in 1986 provides
thoughtful, well-balanced one- to two- page intellectual biographies
of 100 important economists, from Thomas Mun (1571-1641) to John
Maynard Keynes (1883-1946). Entries are in alphabetical order but
the economists are also listed in chronological order in the front of
the book. This is the companion volume to "Great Economists since
Keynes" by the same author. Includes a few b&w portraits.
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