Intellectual Journeys of Recent, Mostly "Defunct" Economists

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"Intellectual Journeys of Recent, Mostly “Defunct” Economists is the work of Szenberg and Ramrattan, not a collection of papers written by other econo¬mists. It brings together in one volume their thoughts, most of which have been previously published in diverse outlets. They discuss the work of fifteen economists, ranging alphabetically from Allais to Samuelson and historically from Keynes to Stanley Fischer. It is not a book to be consumed in one gulp or even a few sittings. Neither is it a reference work that takes the place of a dictionary or an encylopedia. Rather the reader should approach it as a rich, varied intellectual buffet about leading economists to be sampled as interest and need dictate. Readers who believe they already know as much about Samuelson as they desire are unlikely to feel the same way about Adolph Lowe or Robert Heilbroner, two luminaries of the New School. In this book, as in all his many volumes over more than two decades, Szenberg has provided a service for future economists. Just as journalism is said to be the first draft of history, so Szenberg and his collaborators can be said to have provided valuable material for future historians of economic thought." Victor R. Fuchs, from the forward