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Alfred Marshall : Economist 1842–1924

2007

This succinct overview of Marshall's life and work as an economist sets his major economic contributions in perspective, by looking at his education, his travel, his teaching at Cambridge, Oxford and Bristol, his policy views as presented to government inquiries and his political and social opinions

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Hayek: A Collaborative Biography : Part XIV: Liberalism in the Classical Tradition: Orwell, Popper, Humboldt and Polanyi

Leeson, Robert (ed.) - 2018

This latest volume in the Collaborative Biography of Hayek examines the interconnectedness between Hayek’s (1944) The Road to Serfdom and George Orwell’s Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949); his relationship with Karl Popper and Karl Polanyi; and the work of Wilhelm von...

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Hayek: A Collaborative Biography : Part XIII: 'Fascism' and Liberalism in the (Austrian) Classical Tradition

Leeson, Robert (ed.) - 2018

Hayek claimed that he always made it his rule ‘not to be concerned with current politics, but to try to operate on public opinion.’ However, evidence suggests that he was a party political operative with ‘free’ market scholarship being the vehicle through which he sought - and achieved -...

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F. A. Hayek : Economics, Political Economy and Social Philosophy

Boettke, Peter J. - 2018

emergence of unplanned order in the market by limiting the perverse incentives and distortions in information often associated …

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Thomas Robert Malthus

Reisman, David - 2018

Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) was a leading figure in the British classical school of economics, best-known for extending the insights of Adam Smith at a time of revolutionary improvements in agriculture and industry. This book explores the way in which he accounted for the tendency to...

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Hayek: A Collaborative Biography : Part XV: The Chicago School of Economics, Hayek’s ‘luck’ and the 1974 Nobel Prize for Economic Science

Leeson, Robert (ed.) - 2018

. Four indirect tests suggest that ‘free’ market economists have - in other instances and presumably for fund-raising motives …

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A Life of Experimental Economics, Volume II : The Next Fifty Years

Smith, Vernon L. - 2018

exclusive peak into how and why economists pursue their work. It’s a must-read for those interested in experimental economics …

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The Palgrave Companion to LSE Economics

Cord, Robert A. (ed.) - 2018

economics. With six chapters on themes in LSE economics and 29 chapters on the lives and work of LSE economists, this volume … shows how economics became established at the School, how it produced some of the world’s best-known economists, including … from a stellar cast, this volume provides economists - especially those interested in macroeconomics and the history of …

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James M. Buchanan : A Theorist of Political Economy and Social Philosophy

Wagner, Richard E. (ed.) - 2018

to the preponderance of economists, Buchanan made little use of mathematics and no use of econometrics, preferring to … economic inquiry along many paths that numerous economists subsequently pursued. Buchanan’s scholarship brought economics and … economists, both from the distant past and the recent past …

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Irving Fisher

Dimand, Robert W. - 2019

1. Economic Scientist, Economic and Social Reformer -- 2. Indifference Curves and a Hydraulic Model of General Equilibrium -- 3. Revitalizing the Quantity Theory of Money: From the Fisher Relation to the Fisher Equation -- 4. The Fisher Diagram and the Neoclassical Theory of Interest and Capital...

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