The Academic Scribblers: Third Edition
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. The Academic Scribblers is an elegant summary of modern economic policy debate and an enticement into a happy engagement with the "dismal science" of economics."

Originally published in 1998.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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The Academic Scribblers: Third Edition
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. The Academic Scribblers is an elegant summary of modern economic policy debate and an enticement into a happy engagement with the "dismal science" of economics."

Originally published in 1998.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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The Academic Scribblers: Third Edition

The Academic Scribblers: Third Edition

The Academic Scribblers: Third Edition

The Academic Scribblers: Third Edition

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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. The Academic Scribblers is an elegant summary of modern economic policy debate and an enticement into a happy engagement with the "dismal science" of economics."

Originally published in 1998.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780691605517
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 07/14/2014
Series: Princeton Legacy Library , #404
Edition description: Third Edition
Pages: 302
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.40(d)

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface to the First Edition

Preface to the Second Edition

Ch. 1 Introduction 1

Pt. 1 The Pillars of Neoclassical Economics

Ch. 2 The Intellectual Gantry of Neoclassical Economic Policy 7

Ch. 3 Alfred Marshall - Exemplar of Neoclassical Economic Thought 19

Pt. 2 The Eclipse of Neoclassical Economics

Ch. 4 Thorstein Veblen - The Abrogation of Consumer Sovereignty 31

Ch. 5 Arthur Cecil Pigou - Externalities in Production 43

Ch. 6 Edward Hastings Chamberlin - The Wastes of Competition 53

Ch. 7 John Maynard Keynes - Unemployment in Equilibrium 65

Pt. 3 The New Economics

Ch. 8 Alvin H. Hansen - The American Keynes 81

Ch. 9 Paul A. Samuelson - From Economic Wunderkind to Policymaker 107

Ch. 10 Abba P. Lerner - The Artist as Economist 137

Ch. 11 John Kenneth Galbraith - Economist as Social Critic 161

Pt. 4 The New Neoclassicism

Ch. 12 Frank H. Knight - Philosopher of the Counterrevolution in Economics 193

Ch. 13 Henry C. Simons - Radical Proponent of Laissez-faire 207

Ch. 14 Milton Friedman - Classical Liberal as Economic Scientist 223

Ch. 15 Conclusion 263

Afterword: The Academic Scribblers after Twenty-Five Years 267

Index 275

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