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100 1 _aBuchholz, Todd G.
245 1 0 _aNew ideas from dead economists :
_ban introduction to modern economic thought /
_cby Todd G. Buchholz ; with a foreword by Martin Feldstein.
250 _aCompletely rev. and updated.
260 _aNew York :
_bPlume,
_cc2007.
300 _axxi, 346 p. ;
_c21 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction: The plight of the economist -- The second coming of Adam Smith -- Malthus : prophet of doom and population boom -- David Ricardo and the cry for free trade -- The stormy mind of John Stuart Mill -- The angry oracle called Karl Marx -- Alfred Marshall and the marginalist mind -- Old and new institutionalists -- Keynes : bon vivant as savior -- Milton Friedman and the monetarist battle against Keynes -- The Public Choice school : politics as a business -- The wild world of rational expectations and behavioral economics -- Dark clouds, silver linings.
520 _aA reexamination of the major economic theories of the past two hundred years discusses how long-dead, famous economists such as Adam Smith and others would handle today's economic problems.
650 0 _aEconomists
_vBiography.
650 0 _aEconomics
_xHistory.
650 7 _aEconomics
_xHistory.
_2sears
650 7 _aEconomists
_vBiography.
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