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Title:
The real price of everything : rediscovering the six classics of economics
ISBN:
9781402747908
Publication Information:
New York : Sterling, c2007.
Physical Description:
1467 pages ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Introduction: In praise of dead economists / Michael Lewis -- Adam Smith (1723-1790): an introduction to his life and work / Michael Lewis -- An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations / Adam Smith -- Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834): an introduction to his life and work / Michael Lewis -- An essay on the principle of population / Thomas Robert Malthus -- David Ricardo (1772-1823): an introduction to his life and work / Michael Lewis -- Principles of political economy and taxation / David Ricardo -- Charles Mackay (1814-1889): an introduction to his life and work / Michael Lewis -- Selections from Memoirs of extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds / Charles Mackay -- Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929): an introduction to his life and work / Michael Lewis -- The theory of the leisure class: an economic study of institutions / Thorstein Veblen -- John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946): an introduction to his life and work / Michael Lewis -- The general theory of employment, interest and money / John Maynard Keynes.
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