Londres, Inglaterra : The Economist Books, c2020.

277 p. : il. ; 24 cm.

Acknowledgments. -- Introduction: 20 extraordinary lives. -- 1. Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619-1683). The whipping boy. -- 2. Sir William Petty (1623-1687). The man who invented economics. -- 3. Bernard Mandeville (1670-1733). The 18th-century Milton Friedman? -- 4. Richard Cantillon (1680-1734). The economist who faked his own death. -- 5. François Quesnay (1694-1774). The origins of "laissez-faire". -- 6. David Hume (1711-1776). Why mercantilism is wrong. -- 7. Adam Smith (1723-1790). Greatness and illusion. -- 8. Nicolas de Condorcet (1743-1794). The French Adam Smith. -- 9. David Ricardo (1772-1823). The long shadow of the Corn Laws. -- 10. Jean-Baptiste Say (1767-1832). John Maynard Keynes's straw man. -- 11. Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834). Was he a pessimistic moron who hated the poor? -- 12. Simonde de Sismondi (1773-1842). Capitalism's conscience. -- 13. John Stuart Mill (1806-1873). Arch-capitalist or socialist? -- 14. Harriet Martineau (1802-1876). The Ayn Rand of Victorian Britain. -- 15. Karl Marx (1818-1883). Genius and illusion. -- 16. Friedrich Engels (1820-1895). More than meets the eye. -- 17. William Stanley Jevons (1835-1882). The difference between "political economy" and "economics". -- 18. Dadabhai Naoroji (1825-1917). Pointing out the elephant in the room. -- 19. Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919). The woman who dared to question Karl. -- 20. Alfred Marshall (1842-1924). An optimistic ending. -- Notes. -- Bibliography. -- Index. --

Tomado de la pasta: "Who were the classical economists? They were the philosophical visionaries who forged the early phase of economic thought, when big ideas ruled and maths had yet to take over. Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Malthus, Mill, Marx: scarcely a day goes by without their authority being invoked to lend weight to contemporary arguments. So, join The Economist's Callum Williams to get to know them properly. See how the edifice of modern economics was built, brick by brick, from the classical school's insights and quarrels. And find out which of their ideas stand the test of time"

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