The Academic Scribblers
Third Edition
3rd Edition
Published on 14. July 2014
288 pages
978-1-4008-6489-8 (ISBN)
Description
The Academic Scribblers offers a thoughtful and highly literate summary of modern economic thought. It presents the story of economics through the lives of twelve major modern economists, beginning with Alfred Marshall and concluding with Paul Samuelson and Milton Friedman. In a very real sense, this book picks up where Robert Heilbroner's classic The Wordly Philosophers leaves off. Whereas Heilbroner begins with Smith and ends with Joseph Schumpeter, Breit and Ransom bring the story of modern American and British economic theory up to the 1980s. The Academic Scribblers is an elegant summary of modern economic policy debate and an enticement into a happy engagement with the "dismal science" of economics."
Originally published in 1998.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Originally published in 1998.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Persons
William Breit & Roger L. Ransom
Third Edition with a new foreword by Robert M. Solow
Content
	Foreword	
	Preface to the First Edition	
	Preface to the Second Edition	
Ch. 1	Introduction	1
Pt. 1	The Pillars of Neoclassical Economics	
Ch. 2	The Intellectual Gantry of Neoclassical Economic Policy	7
Ch. 3	Alfred Marshall - Exemplar of Neoclassical Economic Thought	19
Pt. 2	The Eclipse of Neoclassical Economics	
Ch. 4	Thorstein Veblen - The Abrogation of Consumer Sovereignty	31
Ch. 5	Arthur Cecil Pigou - Externalities in Production	43
Ch. 6	Edward Hastings Chamberlin - The Wastes of Competition	53
Ch. 7	John Maynard Keynes - Unemployment in Equilibrium	65
Pt. 3	The New Economics	
Ch. 8	Alvin H. Hansen - The American Keynes	81
Ch. 9	Paul A. Samuelson - From Economic Wunderkind to Policymaker	107
Ch. 10	Abba P. Lerner - The Artist as Economist	137
Ch. 11	John Kenneth Galbraith - Economist as Social Critic	161
Pt. 4	The New Neoclassicism	
Ch. 12	Frank H. Knight - Philosopher of the Counterrevolution in Economics	193
Ch. 13	Henry C. Simons - Radical Proponent of Laissez-faire	207
Ch. 14	Milton Friedman - Classical Liberal as Economic Scientist	223
Ch. 15	Conclusion	263
	Afterword: The Academic Scribblers after Twenty-Five Years	267
	Index	275
