Academic Scribblers - 3rd edition

Breit, William : Trinity University

William Breit is the E. M. Stevens Distinguished Professor of Economics at Trinity University in San Antonio.

Ransom, Roger L. : University of California-Riverside

Roger L. Ransom is Professor of Economics and History at the University of California, Riverside.

Solow, Robert M. : Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Robert M. Solow is Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1987.

"As a guide to the intellectual origins of many hotly debated current and proposed economic policies, The Academic Scribblers is an outstanding success."

--J. Bernard Burnham, National Review

"Even to try to survey so much is commendable and the authors have done more. They take the reader through the ideas of the twelve in a way that shows that they are competent theorists themselves."

--William D. Grampp, The American Political Science Review

"The Academic Scribblers is a compact, lucid survey of the ideas of an even dozen British and American economists.... A splendid book. It should be read by every undergraduate student of economics."

--William H. Miernyk, Social Science Quarterly

Submitted by the Publisher, March, 2001

Foreword
Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Second Edition

Ch. 1 Introduction

Pt. 1 The Pillars of Neoclassical Economics

Ch. 2 The Intellectual Gantry of Neoclassical Economic Policy
Ch. 3 Alfred Marshall - Exemplar of Neoclassical Economic Thought

Pt. 2 The Eclipse of Neoclassical Economics

Ch. 4 Thorstein Veblen - The Abrogation of Consumer Sovereignty
Ch. 5 Arthur Cecil Pigou - Externalities in Production
Ch. 6 Edward Hastings Chamberlin - The Wastes of Competition
Ch. 7 John Maynard Keynes - Unemployment in Equilibrium

Pt. 3 The New Economics

Ch. 8 Alvin H. Hansen - The American Keynes
Ch. 9 Paul A. Samuelson - From Economic Wunderkind to Policymaker
Ch. 10 Abba P. Lerner - The Artist as Economist
Ch. 11 John Kenneth Galbraith - Economist as Social Critic

Pt. 4 The New Neoclassicism

Ch. 12 Frank H. Knight - Philosopher of the Counterrevolution in Economics
Ch. 13 Henry C. Simons - Radical Proponent of Laissez-faire
Ch. 14 Milton Friedman - Classical Liberal as Economic Scientist
Ch. 15 Conclusion

Afterword: The Academic Scribblers after Twenty-Five Years
Index