Adam's Fallacy: A Guide to Economic Theology

by Duncan K. Foley

Book Overview

This book could be called "The Intelligent Person's Guide to Economics." Like Robert Heilbroner's The Worldly Philosophers, it attempts to explain the core ideas of the great economists, beginning with Adam Smith and ending with Joseph Schumpeter. In between are chapters on Thomas Malthus, David Ricardo, Karl Marx, the marginalists, John Maynard Keynes, Friedrich Hayek, and Thorstein Veblen. The title expresses Duncan Foley's belief that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674027299
• ISBN13: 9780674027299
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.2"