Handbook of the History of Economic Thought Insights on the Founders of Modern Economics /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Backhaus, Jürgen Georg (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2012.
• Series: The European Heritage in Economics and the Social Sciences ; 11
• Subjects: Political science.; Economic history.; Economic theory.; Economics.; Methodology/History of Economic Thought.; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.; Political Science.

This reader in the history of economic thought challenges the assumption that today’s prevailing economic theories are always the most appropriate ones. As Leland Yeager has pointed out, unlike the scientists of the natural sciences, economists provide their ideas largely to politicians and politica...