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Record Nr.

UNINA9910799983403321

Autore

Samuels Warren J. <1933, >

Titolo

Essays on the history of economics / / Warren J. Samuels. [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-135-99709-8

1-135-99710-1

0-429-23492-9

0-203-79998-4

1-280-07763-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (355 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in the history of economics ; ; 67

Classificazione

83.01

Disciplina

330/.09

Soggetti

Economics - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [306]-330) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

The etiology of Adam Smith's division of labor : alternative accounts and Smith's methodology applied to them / Warren J. Samuels and Willie Henderson -- Appendix: How does Smith achieve a synthesis in writing?: evidence from his analysis of the propensity to truck, barter, and exchange / Willie Henderson -- Should history-of-economic-thought textbooks cover "recent" economic thought? / Warren J. Samuels, Kirk D. Johnson, and Marianne Johnson -- What the authors of history-of-economic-thought textbooks have to say about the history of economic thought / Warren J. Samuels, Kirk D. Johnson, and Marianne Johnson -- Thorstein Veblen as economic theorist / Warren J. Samuels.

Sommario/riassunto

Under the impressive editorship of Warren Samuels et al, this book addresses the state of the history of economic thought today. An important contribution to the study of the history of economics, this eagerly-awaited book will develop an unsurprisingly large following.