
In reviewing this book in The Economic Journal, S.G. Checkland said that it should be read as a vigorous attempt to relate economics to general thinking and as a challenge to those who are practitioners or elaborators of narrowly prescribed techniques.


No problem has given rise to more disagreement among economists than that of economic & social change. Is it a mechanical, static concept concerned mainly with economic equilibrium, or an evolutionary dynamic, one concerned with growth, development, & expansion? Hamilton argues...
