
The Hesitant Hand: Taming Self-Interest in the History of Economic Ideas
About this book
The author explores what has been perhaps the central controversy in modern economics from Adam Smith to today. He traces the theory of market failure from the 1840s through the 1950s and subsequent attacks on this view by the Chicago and Virginia schools.
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- OL Work ID
- OL19366986W
Subjects
Free enterpriseEconomic policyEconomics, historyEconomic history