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2nd ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 494 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"Provides an accessible introduction to the major economic thinkers of the past 225 years - including little-known and often amusing facts about their personal lives"--Publisher description. |
| Contents |
It all started with Adam -- French connection: laissez faire avance! -- Irreverent Malthus challenges the new model of prosperity -- Tricky Ricardo takes economics down a dangerous road -- Milling around: John Stuart Mill and the Socialists search for Utopia -- Marx madness plunges economics in to a New Dark Age -- Out of the blue Danube: Menger and the Austrians reverse the tide -- Marshalling the troops: Scientific economics comes of age -- Go West, young man: Americans solve the distribution problem in economics -- Conspicuous Veblen versus the protesting Weber: Two critics debate the meaning of Capitalism -- Fisher King tries to catch the missing link in macroeconomics -- Missing Mises: Mises (and Wicksell) make a major breakthrough -- Keynes mutiny: Capitalism faces its greatest challenge -- Paul raises the Keynesian cross: Samuelson and modern economics -- Milton's Paradise: Friedman leads a monetary counterrevolution -- Creative destruction of Socialism: The dark vision of Joseph Schumpeter -- Dr. Smith goes to Washington: The near triumph of market economics. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Economics -- History.
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Economics. |
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History. |
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Economics -- Philosophy.
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Economics -- Philosophy. |
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Economists -- Biography.
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Economists -- Biography. |
| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1776-2000. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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History.
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Biographie.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Skousen, Mark. Making of modern economics. 2nd ed. Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, ©2009 9780765622266 0765622262 (DLC) 2008061114 (OCoLC)230730342 |
| ISBN |
9781317455875 (electronic book) |
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1317455878 (electronic book) |
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9781315718705 |
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1315718707 |
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9781317513797 |
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1317513797 |
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9780765622266 (alkaline paper) |
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0765622262 (alkaline paper) |
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9780765622273 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0765622270 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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