A brief history of economics : artful approaches to the dismal science /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Singapore ; River Edge, NJ :
World Scientific,
[2001]
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| Abstract: | A Brief History of Economics illustrates how the ideas of the great economists not only influenced societies but were themselves shaped by their cultural milieu. Understanding the economists' visions - lucidly and vividly unveiled by Canterbery - allows readers to place economics within a broader community of ideas. Magically, the author links Adam Smith to Isaac Newton's idea of an orderly universe, F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby to Thorstein Veblen, John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath to the Great Depression, and Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities to Reaganomics. |
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 481 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-458) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9810238487 9789810238483 9810238495 9789810238490 |