The hesitant hand
Subtitle: taming self-interest in the history of economic ideas
By: Steven G. Medema.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780691122960
Subjects: Free enterprise -- History; Economic policy -- History; Economics -- History; Economic history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Adam Smith and his ancestors; title: Harnessing self-interest: Mill, Sidgwick, and the evolution of the theory of market failure; title: Marginalizing the market: Marshall, Pigou, and the Pigovian tradition; title: Marginalizing government I: from La Scienza delle Finanze to Wicksell; title: Coase's challenge; title: Marginalizing government II: the rise of public choice analysis; title: Legal fiction: the Coase theorem and the evolution of law and economics.