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The
Making of Modern Economics:
The Lives and Ideas of the Great Thinkers
M. E. Sharpe Publishers, 2001, 496 pages
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Love
it or hate it, but you'll never be indifferent—reviews of
Mark Skousen's controversial new history, The Making of
Modern Economics.
The dramatic
story of the great economic thinkers, their lives and ideas,
the first to be told by a free-market economist. Fully illustrated,
with over 100 pictures, diagrams and rarely-seen photographs.
Already
in its second printing in less than six months. Translations
in Chinese, Turkish and a special English edition by Oxford
University Press (India).
"A story
rarely told and Skousen tells it well. I find it very extreme,
but unputdownable!"--Mark Blaug, University of Amsterdam
"I used
your textbook last semester and Blaug is right. It’s unputdownable.
My students loved the humor and the storyline. I’m using it
next semester." --Gene Savin, University of Iowa
"Both
fascinating and infuriating….engaging, readable, colorful….credulous,
disingenuous, and tendentious." --Foreign Affairs (Sept/Oct
2001)
"Irreverent,
passionate, entertaining, mischievous, and sometimes even
wrong-headed, but I like it." --David Colander, Princeton
University
"Provocative,
engaging, anything but dismal." --N. Gregory Mankiw, Harvard
University
"Lively…amazing…good
quotations!" --Bernard Saffran, Journal of Economic Perspectives
"I loved
your book, even despite the few bits I disagreed with. It's
not only an amazingly comprehensive yet compact overview
of the subject, it's also a delight to read--a must for
anyone vaguely interested in how economics got to where it
is today and by whom, as well as any one who yearns to see
the development of laissez faire principles and values put
firmly in perspective and the Austrian giants given the credit
they are due. If it had been written a couple of decades ago,
it would have saved me, and I am sure many others, a lot of
fruitless meanderings among dry as dust and invariably pro-interventionist
histories of economic thought. Thank you Mark for a great
piece of work! --Andreas Acavalos (Greece)
"One
of the most original books ever published in economics." --Richard
Swedberg, University of Stockholm
"Lively
and accurate, a sure bestseller. Congratulations!" --Milton
Friedman, Hoover Institution
"Lively
but inaccurate. Skousen is very demanding, but he gets the
story wrong. It’s a disaster!" --David Gordon, Mises Institute
"Skousen
gets the story ‘right’ and does it in an entertaining fashion,
without dogmatic rantings. I plan to use it." --Peter Boettke,
George Mason University
"I highly
recommend it." --Gary North, LewRockwell.com
"One
of the most readable ‘tell all’ histories of the 20th
century." --Richard Ebeling, Ludwig von Mises Professor of
Economics, Hillsdale College
"I couldn’t
put it down! The musical accompaniments for each chapter are
a wonderful touch. Humor permeates the book and makes it accessible
like no other history. It will set the standard." --Steven
Kates, chief economist, Australian Chamber of Commerce
"I’m
loving every page of your wonderful new book—a fascinating
and original work, sure to be reprinted many times." --Dan
Griswold, Cato Institute
"The
anecdotes are incredibly helpful. How can we get such a sensible
book in every Economics 101 course around the country?" --Stephen
Moore, Club for Growth
"The
most fascinating, entertaining and readable history I have
ever seen. I highly recommend it for translation abroad."
--Ken Schoolland, Hawaii Pacific University
"A glorious
exception to dry history of thought books. I am urging my
students and colleagues to read it." --Richard Vedder, Ohio
University
"Loved
the pictures, especially of Friedman and Stigler." --Dr. Hardy
Bouillon, Centre for New Europe (Brussels)
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