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BOOK REVIEW: "Review of Growth of Economics in the Twentieth Century: Theories and Practices" edited by K. Puttaswamaiah

BOOK REVIEW: "Review of Growth of Economics in the Twentieth Century: Theories and Practices"... The Singapore Economic Review, Vol. 57, No. 1 (2012) 1280003 (5 pages) © World Scientific Publishing Company DOI: 10.1142/S0217590812800033 BOOK REVIEW Review of Growth of Economics in the Twentieth Century: Theories and Practices edited by K. Puttaswamaiah, Enfield, NH, Isle Publishing Company, 2009, pp. 661. This is an ambitious and very long volume. It contains 35 essays, some of them by noted scholars in the history of economic thought. The majority of the chapters were previously published in The International Journal of Applied Economics and Econometrics. As they are easily accessible online, it is not clear why they had to be reprinted at all, or why the editor did not approach a standard academic publisher who would have advised on the wheat and the chaff. The essays cover the classical period of Adam Smith, Malthus and Marx, the neo- classical authors Wicksell, Marshall and Samuelson, the Keynesian tradition of Keynes and Klein, the heterodox tradition of Schumpeter, Coase, Veblen and Galbraith. Some of the contributions reflect a personal fascination with lesser known authors like W. T. Thornton and Colin Simkin or unusual subjects such as the economics of molecular biology and general equilibrium in twentieth century Japan. There is http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Singapore Economic Review World Scientific Publishing Company

BOOK REVIEW: "Review of Growth of Economics in the Twentieth Century: Theories and Practices" edited by K. Puttaswamaiah

REISMAN, DAVID
The Singapore Economic Review , Volume 57 (01): 1 – Mar 1, 2012
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The Singapore Economic Review, Vol. 57, No. 1 (2012) 1280003 (5 pages) © World Scientific Publishing Company DOI: 10.1142/S0217590812800033 BOOK REVIEW Review of Growth of Economics in the Twentieth Century: Theories and Practices edited by K. Puttaswamaiah, Enfield, NH, Isle Publishing Company, 2009, pp. 661. This is an ambitious and very long volume. It contains 35 essays, some of them by noted scholars in the history of economic thought. The majority of the chapters were previously published in The International Journal of Applied Economics and Econometrics. As they are easily accessible online, it is not clear why they had to be reprinted at all, or why the editor did not approach a standard academic publisher who would have advised on the wheat and the chaff. The essays cover the classical period of Adam Smith, Malthus and Marx, the neo- classical authors Wicksell, Marshall and Samuelson, the Keynesian tradition of Keynes and Klein, the heterodox tradition of Schumpeter, Coase, Veblen and Galbraith. Some of the contributions reflect a personal fascination with lesser known authors like W. T. Thornton and Colin Simkin or unusual subjects such as the economics of molecular biology and general equilibrium in twentieth century Japan. There is

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