Leading Contemporary Economists (Routledge Studies in the History of Economics) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415762200 ISBN 13: 9780415762205

Publisher: Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

This book describes the important contributions of several contemporary economic figures including recent Nobel Laureates. Describing their work and putting it into an historical perspective, these chapters explain how their work constitutes a major contribution to the discipline of economics and how it has broadened economic science.

Co-Editor of the Review of Political Economy, Steven Pressman has gathered together for the first time key chapters from the journal, discussing major figures such as Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, John Kenneth Galbraith, Thomas Schelling, Edmund Phelps and Robert Mundell. This volume is significant to the extent that it combines the study of the work of Nobel Laureates with the perspective of heterodox economists, including a comprehensive bibliography for the work of each economist covered.

About this title

About the Author:

Stephen Pressman is Professor of Economics and Finance at Monmouth University. He is the author of Fifty Major Economists (second edition. 2006) and co-editor of Women in the Age of Economic Transformation (1994) and A New Guide to Post-Keynesian Economics (2001) all published by Routledge.

Review:

'This is a book that proves that economics is not a dismal science' Michael Szenberg (Pace University, USA)

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0415762200
• ISBN 13: 9780415762205
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 464
• Editor: Pressman Steven