The Making of Modern Economics, Mark Skousen
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The Making of Modern Economics
The Lives and Ideas of the Great Thinkers

Author: Mark Skousen

Narrator: Patrick Cullen

Unabridged: 18 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2007


Synopsis

This bold new history of economics tells the dramatic story of how the great economic thinkers built a rigorous social science without peer. Unlike other economics histories, Skousens book provides a running plot with a singular heroic figure, Adam Smith, at the center of the discipline. Skousen unites the great thinkers by ranking them for or against Adam Smith and his system of natural liberty. He shows how Karl Marx, Thorstein Veblen, John Maynard Keynes, and even laissezfaire disciples Robert Malthus and David Ricardo detracted from Adam Smiths classical model of democratic capitalism, while Alfred Marshall, Irving Fisher, Ludwig von Mises, and Milton Friedman, among others, remodeled and improved upon Smithian economics. Highlights include humorous anecdotes and exciting new revelations about the lives of the great economists.

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