Documents on Modern History of Economic Thought

By Warren J. Samuels

Book Overview

This work contains seven documents from the history of economics: Four sets of lecture notes taken by Victor E. Smith, two from courses given by William Jaffe at Northwestern University, on general equilibrium theory and on Keynes, from 1938-39, and one from lectures given at the University of Cambridge during 1954-55. It includes two documents from the history of Institutional Economics, one the 1974 Editor's Report on the "Journal of Economic Issues" - on the conflicts then rampant - and the other, an exposition of the past and future of Institutional Economics, both by Warren J. Samuels. It also includes a set of autobiographical notes by the Wisconsin institutionalist, Martin G. Glaeser, and a bibliography of the writings of F.Y. Edgeworth by Alberto Baccini.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0762309989
• ISBN13: 9780762309986
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Jai Press Inc.
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"