The Making of Modern Economics: The Lives and Ideas of the Great Thinkers

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List of Figures, Illustrations, Photographs, and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction 1. It All Started With Adam 2. The French Connection: Laissez Faire Avance! 3. The Irreverent Malthus Challenges the New Model of Prosperity 4. Tricky Ricardo Takes Economics Down a Dangerous Road 5. Milling Around: John Stuart Mill and the Socialists Search for Utopia 6. Marx Madness Plunges Economics into a New Dark Age 7. Out of the Blue Danube: Menger and the Austrians Reverse the Tide 8. Marshalling the Troops: Scientific Economics Comes of Age 9. Go West, Young Man: Americans Solve the Distribution Problem in Economics 10. The Conspicuous Veblen Versus the Protesting Weber: Two Critics Debate the Meaning of Capitalism 11. The Fisher King Tries to Catch the Missing Link in Macroeconomics 12. The Missing Mises: Mises (and Wicksell) Make a Major Breakthrough 13. The Keynes Mutiny: Capitalism Faces Its Greatest Challenge 14. Paul Raises the Keynesian Cross: Samuelson and Modern Economics 15. Milton's Paradise: Friedman Leads a Monetary Counterrevolution 16. The Creative Destruction of Socialism: The Dark Vision of Joseph Schumpeter 17. Dr. Smith Goes to Washington: The Triumph of Market Economics Index About the Author.

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