The academic scribblers
By: William Breit, Roger L. Ransom ; with a new foreword by Robert M. Solow.
Contributors: Ransom, Roger L., 1938-
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
Subjects: Economics -- History -- 20th century; Economists -- Biography; Economics -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Economists -- United States -- Biography
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Originally published:  Chicago : Dryden Press, c1982. With a new foreword and with a new afterword by the authors.