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

The history of economic thought told via chronological serial biography is a refreshing alternative to other more narrowly scoped economics books. After this book I feel like I have a more all-encompassing understanding of the major personalities and theories of the field, but the weakest aspect is......more

As a reference, this book has its good points and bad. It is broad, managing at least to touch on nearly every important theorist of the last 200+ years. But in some cases this completist approach produces a shallowness of treatment (particularly with Pareto, Clark, Edgeworth, Knight, and others fro......more

A very good survey of economic thought and those thinkers who've contributed to the field. While the author is very Conservative and his prejudices negatively impact his views of all thinkers who do not falling into his preferred category of free marketers, it is still a useful primer, especially fo......more

An interesting and often humorous chronology of economic thought, including the ideas of Adam Smith, Ludwig von Mises, Karl Marx, Keynes, etc. I enjoyed reading about the major conflicts - both of theory and personality - that took place in the field. In eminently readable fashion, Skousen dramatica......more

Her iktisat fakültesinde zorunlu olarak özellikle makroekonomi derslerinde okutulması gerektiğini düşündüğüm roman tadında, yer yer güldüren iktisatçıların teorilerini anlatırken onlar hakkında kişisel bilgiler veren bir kitaptı.......more