Before Method and Models: The Political Economy of Malthus and Ricardo

by Ryan Walter

A boldly revisionist history of the first disputes in nineteenth-century Britain over the role of economists in society

Economics now so dominates our understanding of how the world works that some of the field's most influential concepts seem akin to natural laws. Yet economists themselves are a relatively recent species of intellectual, first emerging in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. And like the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019760305X
• ISBN13: 9780197603055
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.5"