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Adam Smith's Legacy Michael Fry

Adam Smith's Legacy By Michael Fry

Adam Smith's Legacy by Michael Fry


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Summary

The contributors, including ten Nobel Laureates, consider themes as diverse as Smith's use of data, his attitude to human capital and his views on economic policy. Heirs to Smith they also reflect on the current state of economics.

Adam Smith's Legacy Summary

Adam Smith's Legacy: His Place in the Development of Modern Economics by Michael Fry

Very prestigious publication - should attract media attention, especially in the specialist press

All of the contributors are Nobel Prize winners

Perennial interest in books on Adam Smith - even without contributors of this calibre

About Michael Fry

Michael Fry (Columbia College, Chicago IL US)

Table of Contents

Address at Canongate Kirkyard 1. The Overdue Recovery of Adam Smith's Reputation as an Economic Theorist Paul Samuelson 2. Smith's Use of Data L.R. Klein 3. On the Wealth of Nations Franco Modigliani 4. The Supply of Labour and the Extent of the Market James M. Buchanan 5. The General Theory of Surpluses as a Formulation of the Underlying Theoretical Thought of Adam Smith, his Predecessors and his Contemporaries Maurice Allais 6. Adam Smith and Human Capital Theodore Schultz 7. Public Economic Policy: Adam Smith on What State and other Public Institutions Should and Should Not Do Richard Stone 8. The Invisible Hand in Modern Macro Economics James Tobin 9. The Present State of Economic Science Wassily Leontief 10. Economics: Recent Performance and Future Tasks Jan Tinbergen

Additional information

NPB9780415061643
9780415061643
0415061644
Adam Smith's Legacy: His Place in the Development of Modern Economics by Michael Fry
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
1992-04-30
220
N/A
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