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dc.contributor.author | Ashenfelter, Orley | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-04-24 | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-06-15T07:54:45Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2012-06-15T07:54:45Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2011 | - |
dc.identifier.pi | urn:nbn:de:101:1-201201113734 | en |
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 |
dc.language.iso | eng | en |
dc.publisher | |aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonn | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | |aIZA Discussion Papers |x6213 | en |
dc.subject.jel | B10 | en |
dc.subject.jel | B30 | en |
dc.subject.ddc | 330 | en |
dc.subject.keyword | economic history | en |
dc.subject.keyword | economic growth | en |
dc.subject.keyword | economic policy | en |
dc.subject.stw | Wirtschaftswissenschaft | en |
dc.subject.stw | Ökonomen | en |
dc.subject.stw | Persönlichkeitspsychologie | en |
dc.subject.stw | Wirtschaftsforschung | en |
dc.subject.stw | Wirtschaftsphilosophie | en |
dc.subject.stw | Wirtschaftsgeschichte | en |
dc.title | Economic history or history of economics? A review essay on Sylvia Nasar's Grand Pursuit: The story of economic genius | - |
dc.type | Working Paper | en |
dc.identifier.ppn | 697276856 | en |
dc.rights | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | en |
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