@techreport{Ashenfelter2011Economic,
abstract = {In this essay I review Sylvia Nasar's long awaited new history of economics, Grand Pursuit. I describe how the book is an economic history of the period from 1850-1950, with distinguished economists' stories inserted in appropriate places. Nasar's goal is to show how economists work, but also to show that they are people too - with more than enough warts and foibles to show they are human! I contrast the general view of the role of economics in Grand Pursuit with Robert Heilbroner's remarkably different conception in The Worldly Philosophers. I also discuss more generally the question of why economists might be interested in their history at all.},
address = {Bonn},
author = {Orley Ashenfelter},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {B10; B30; 330; economic history; economic growth; economic policy; Wirtschaftswissenschaft; \"{O}konomen; Pers\"{o}nlichkeitspsychologie; Wirtschaftsforschung; Wirtschaftsphilosophie; Wirtschaftsgeschichte},
language = {eng},
note = {urn:nbn:de:101:1-201201113734},
number = {6213},
publisher = {IZA},
title = {Economic history or history of economics? A review essay on Sylvia Nasar's Grand Pursuit: The story of economic genius},
type = {Discussion Paper series, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/58797},
year = {2011}
}
