Handbook on the History of Economic Analysis, Volume 1: Great Economists since Petty and Boisguilbert

Blurb

Edited by two of the foremost academics in the field, the volumes gather together insightful and original contributions from scholars across the world. The encyclopaedic breadth and scope of the original entries will make these Handbooks an invaluable source of knowledge for all serious students and scholars of the history of economic thought.

Book summary

This first volume of History of Economic Analyses provides short biographical articles written by historians of economics about economists since William Petty until Stiglitz and Krugman.

Comment from our editors:

This volume (and the others) is edited by two historians of economics. Gilbert Faccarelo is well known in the field in France, as is Heinz Kurz in Austria. Volume 1 provides short biographical essays. Though predominantly presenting western economists, it is still a quite handy reference, used a lot by historians of economics and economists. Volume II deals with schools of thought in economics, while Vol. III concentrates on developments in major fields of economics.