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Book SynopsisGreat Economists before Keynes is an extensive and much acclaimed guide providing authoritative intellectual biographies together with portraits of one hundred great economists of the past.
This important book not only includes entries on familiar names, such as, Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Karl Marx and Leon Walras, but also includes descriptions of less well known yet equally important economists. Mark Blaug demonstrates that modern economics is an accumulated heritage of specific ideas of individual economists.
Mark Blaug has brought his formidable powers to bear on the history of economics producing a companion that nobody interested in economics will want to be without. The reprint of this classic work will be an essential reference source for instructors, researchers and students of economics.
Trade Review'Great Economists before Keynes
is an excellent work of reference, as well as an exemplary brief guide to the history of economic thought.'Table of ContentsContents: Preface Acknowledgements List of Entries Great Economists before Keynes Index of Names Index of Subjects
