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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 economists, this book examines their conceptual debt to natural science and thus locates the evolution of economic ideas within the history of science.

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"Margaret Schabas's fascinating book... charts the progress of this transformation, beginning not with Bacon and Descartes but with the origins of formal economics in the moral philosophy of the French Enlightenment.... A wide-ranging and challenging book that can be read profitably both by economists and a wider spectrum of readers interested in the history of science." - Times Literary Supplement"

The Natural Origins of Economics

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 01/10/2007
      ISBN13: 9780226735702, 978-0226735702
      ISBN10: 0226735702
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      Book Synopsis
      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 economists, this book examines their conceptual debt to natural science and thus locates the evolution of economic ideas within the history of science.

      Trade Review
      "Margaret Schabas's fascinating book... charts the progress of this transformation, beginning not with Bacon and Descartes but with the origins of formal economics in the moral philosophy of the French Enlightenment.... A wide-ranging and challenging book that can be read profitably both by economists and a wider spectrum of readers interested in the history of science." - Times Literary Supplement"

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