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Here the author traces the emergence and transformation of economics in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries from a natural to a social science. Focusing on the works of several prominent economists, she locates the evolution of economic ideas within the history of science. This book will interest economists, historians, and philosophers.

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The Natural Origins of Economics

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 1/15/2006 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226735696, 978-0226735696
      ISBN10: 0226735699
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      Book Synopsis
      Here the author traces the emergence and transformation of economics in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries from a natural to a social science. Focusing on the works of several prominent economists, she locates the evolution of economic ideas within the history of science. This book will interest economists, historians, and philosophers.

      Trade Review
      "An important and satisfying study. It offers a synthesis of history of science and of economic thought, surveying a large body of material from a distinctive angle and showing how nature, once densely interwoven with economics, came to be understood as merely an exogenous factor." - Theodore Porter, University of California, Los Angeles"

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