TY - BOOK AU - Williams,Callum TI - The classical school: the turbulent birth of economics in twenty extraordinary lives SN - 9781788164733 (pbk.) U1 - 330.0922 WIL 23 PY - 2020/// CY - London PB - The Economist Newspaper Ltd. KW - Economists KW - Biography KW - Economics KW - History KW - 18th century KW - 19th century KW - Classical school of economics N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-255) and index N2 - "Callum Williams debunks popular myths about great economists such as Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Thomas Malthus, David Ricardo, John Stuart Mill, Bernard de Mandeville, Friedrich Engels, and Jean-Baptiste Say, and explains the significance of their ideas in an engaging way. The book offers an assessment of what they wrote, the impact it had, and the worthiness of their ideas"-- ER -