an introduction - from Adam Smith to Amartya Sen Conlin, Jonathan text London Reaktion Books 2019 monographic eng

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311 p. "Describes key concepts put forward by these thinkers and shows how they have come to shape how we see ourselves and our society. Consider the role played by the division of labor, wages and rents, cognitive biases, saving, entrepreneurship, game theory, liberalism, laissez-faire, and welfare economics, market intervention and regulation, taxation, trade, and monetary policy. Each chapter combines a biographical outline of a single thinker with critical analysis of their contribution to economic thought" --book jacket edited by Jonathan Conlin Eng Economics-history Economics-biography 330.10922 GRE- 9781789140057 260514 20260514110229.0