| Edition |
First Simon and Schuster hardcover edition. |
| Description |
xv, 558 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-526) and index. |
| Contents |
Perfectly new: Engels and Karl Marx in the age of miracles -- Must there be a proletariat? Marshall's patron saint -- Miss Potter's profession: Webb and the housekeeping state -- Cross of gold: Fisher and the money illusion -- Creative destruction: Schumpeter and economic evolution -- The last days of mankind: Schumpeter in Vienna -- Europe is dying : Keynes at Versailles -- The joyless street: Schumpeter and Hayek in Vienna -- Immaterial mechanisms of the mind: Keynes and Fisher in the 1920s -- Magneto trouble: Keynes and Fischer in the Great Depression -- Experiments: Webb and Robinson in the 1930s -- Economists' war: Keynes and Friedman at the Treasury -- Exile: Schumpeter and Hayek in WWII -- Past and future: Keynes at Bretton Woods -- Road from serfdom: Hayek and the German miracle -- Instruments of mastery: Samuelson goes to Washington -- Grand illusin: Robinson in Moscow and Beijing -- Tryst with destiny: Sen in Calcutta and Cambridge. |
| Summary |
Traces how the works of Charles Dickens and Henry Mayhew reflected the poor majority in mid-nineteenth-century London, citing the achievements of such influential figures as John Maynard Keyes, Paul Samuelson and Amartya Sen. |
| Subject |
Economics -- History.
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Economists.
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Economic history.
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| ISBN |
9780684872988 hardback |
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0684872986 hardback |
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9780684872995 paperback |
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0684872994 paperback |
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