Title: The academic scribblers
First published: 1971
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.
Subjects: Economics, Biography, Economists, History, Economics, history, Economists, biography, United states, economic conditions, 20th century
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century