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| DC Field | | Value | | Language |
| dc.contributor.author | | Ashenfelter, Orley | | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | | 2012-04-24 | | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | | 2012-06-15T07:54:45Z | | - |
| dc.date.available | | 2012-06-15T07:54:45Z | | - |
| dc.date.issued | | 2011 | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.pi | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-201201113734 | | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/58797 | | - |
| dc.description.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. | | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | | eng | | en_US |
| dc.publisher | | IZA Bonn | | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | | Discussion Paper series, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 6213 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | B10 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | B30 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.ddc | | 330 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | economic history | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | economic growth | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | economic policy | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Wirtschaftswissenschaft | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Ökonomen | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Persönlichkeitspsychologie | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Wirtschaftsforschung | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Wirtschaftsphilosophie | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Wirtschaftsgeschichte | | en_US |
| dc.title | | Economic history or history of economics? A review essay on Sylvia Nasar's Grand Pursuit: The story of economic genius | | en_US |
| dc.type | | Working Paper | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.ppn | | 697276856 | | en_US |
| dc.rights | | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | | en_US |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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