Fifty Major Economists

by Steven Pressman

This book is an ideal reference tool, providing brief biographical data on the economists who have shaped the discipline. It also includes description and analysis of the major features of their economic thought. It provides balanced coverage of all the major traditions and a wide range of economists with more space being devoted to seminal theorists who opened up new horizons for economics. This book
* lists of the writers works
* guides to further reading
* a glossary of economic terms. Also
Fifty Major Philosophers 0415031354 £10.99
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Genres: Economics, Biography, History

208 pages, Hardcover

First published July 29, 1999

Reviews

[Ariadna73 · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the third edition of this interesting and nicely layed-out book about the lives and miracles of fifty economists. As it happens in any "The X major Y" books, not everyone is included (only 50 LOL).

I liked the shortness of the essays, and the fact that they introduced new names in spite of eliminating people that in the past they deemed esential to their picture of the economic world.

This is the cover, and the editorial information of the book I read:





The table of contents:



A preface, an introduction, and a useful glossary:







David Hume:



Adam Smith:



Alfred Marshall:



Paul Samuelson:



James Buchanan, Kenneth Arrow:



The Bergmanns:





Daniel Kahneman:



Stiglitz & Krugman





Not bad, short and entertaining. I would read it before bed on summers. It is a wonderful and informative little volume.



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[Brian · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked getting all of the theories, as well as the backstories, of these top economists.

[Tue Le · Rating 4 out of 5]

Insightful book on the historically significant economists in chronological order.

[Mohamad Jaber · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great book, it doesn't merely mention random economists but organizes them in a chronological order making this book somehow a book about economic thought.

The choice of economists was eloquent and inclusive with the exception of some that i was surprised not to see (J.B Say...).