New ideas from dead economists
Subtitle: an introduction to modern economic thought
By: Todd G. Buchholz ; with a foreword by Martin Feldstein.
Edition: Rev. ed.
Publisher: Plume Book
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
Subjects: Economists -- Biography; Economics -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-324) and index.
Table of contents: title: Plight of the economist; title: Second coming of Adam Smith; title: Malthus : prophet of doom and population boom; title: David Ricardo and the cry for free trade; title: Stormy mind of John Stuart Mill; title: Angry oracle called Karl Marx; title: Alfred Marshall and the marginalist mind; title: Old and new institutionalists; title: Keynes : bon vivant as savior; title: Monetarist battle against Keynes; title: Public choice school : politics as a business; title: Wild world of rational expectations; title: Dark clouds, silver linings.