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DEVELOPMENT OF ECONOMIC ANALYSIS

The present edition seeks to ride the crest of the continuing wave of enthusiasm about the history of economics, much of which has been generated by the younger members of the profession. Their training in the use of modern analytical tools and concepts is helping to bridge the artificial hiatus that has too long persisted between the study of the history of economics and contemporary theory. While the chief objective of this book is to encourage the study of the history of economics for its own sake, the bridging of that separation is also among the objectives of this edition, as it was of earlier editions. I hope it will encourage yet another generation of students to catch the intellectual excitement of returning to the classics. The Physiocrats, Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Thomas Malthus, the Mills, and Alfred Marshall pioneered in the development of the analytical tools and concepts on which our modern discipline rests.

Those who teach and those who learn generally agree that there is no substitute for studying their intellectual legacy from original sources. Lengthy collateral readings from the masterworks are thus a standard feature even for undergraduate course offerings, though their effective use is often problematical. It is in the hope of addressing these difficulties that the present edition undertakes to integrate selections from the masterworks. These are introduced within the context of the many controversial issues to which those who shaped economics gave their attention. This format offers the double advantage of providing easy access to original source readings while reenforcing our appreciation of the intensely practical concerns of our intellectual forebears as problem solvers. The differing "answers" that they offered also make it manifestly clear that intellectual controversy has been a characteristic of economic inquiry from its earliest days.

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330.09 RIM d 5th
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Homewood : Irwin.,
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xvi, 603 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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English
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0-256-08631-1
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330.09
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5th. ed.
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Buku Umum
Economics
History
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