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020 _a9781788164733 (pbk.)
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_a330.0922 WIL
_b015623
100 1 _aWilliams, Callum,
_eauthor.
245 1 4 _aThe classical school :
_bthe turbulent birth of economics in twenty extraordinary lives /
_cCallum Williams.
263 _a2005
264 1 _aLondon :
_bThe Economist Newspaper Ltd.,
_c2020
300 _a277 pages :
_c24 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 243-255) and index.
520 _a"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"--
650 0 _aEconomists
_v Biography.
650 0 _aEconomics
_xHistory
_y18th century.
650 0 _aEconomics
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aClassical school of economics
_xHistory.
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