Lost Prophets
Subtitle: An Insider's History of the Modern Economists
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: January 1, 1993
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780071034531
Subjects: History Of Economic Thought; 20th century; Economic policy; Economics; History; United States
First sentence: It is widely-but mistakenly-supposed that Thomas Carlyle labeled economics the "dismal science" because it seems, at least to some of us, such an uninteresting, unclear, even foggy business, full of ifs and maybes.