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Title: The Ordinary Business of Life : A History of Economics from the Ancient World to the Twenty-First Century by Roger E. Backhouse ISBN: 0-691-09626-0 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 11 February, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $55.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful combination!
Comment: wonderful combination of history, philosophy, biographies, economics. I rivals Heilbroner in getting my attention and imagination. From Greek economics as getting the most out of your "household" to current issues with understanding Hayek, with explantions of Adam Smith and Karl Marx on the way.
Rating: 4
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Comment: The good news about The Ordinary Business of Life is that it's a wide-ranging history of economic thought from Ancient Greek thinkers to the rational expectations theorists of the late 20th century. Backhouse doesn't idealize his subjects: he scolds modern economists for formulating abstract mathematical models that have little application to problems in the real world.
The bad news is that the book is totally lacking in color or personality. Aiming at comprehensive coverage, Backhouse plods from thinker to thinker and school to school. Giants like Smith or Keynes get only 6 or 7 pages of text; lesser thinkers get only a paragraph or two. The effect is like reading a series of encyclopedia articles.
Non-economist readers looking for an introduction to the history of economics would be better off starting with a book like Robert Heilbroner's classic The Worldly Philosophers. That way they'll be inspired to read some more.
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Title: Teachings from the Worldly Philosophy by Robert L. Heilbroner ISBN: 0393316076 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: August, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: History of Economic Thought: A Reader by Steven G. Medema, Warren G. Samuels, Medenna and Samuels, Stephen G. Medema ISBN: 0415205514 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $47.95 |
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Title: The Company : A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea by John Micklethwait, Adrian Wooldridge ISBN: 0679642498 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 04 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: The Worldly Philosophers : The Lives, Times And Ideas Of The Great Economic Thinkers by Robert L. Heilbroner ISBN: 068486214X Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 10 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: New Ideas from Dead Economists: An Introduction to Modern Economic Thought by Todd G. Buchholz, Martin Feldstein ISBN: 0452280524 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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