Re: [Pen-l] Re: Opinions about "The Big Three in Economics"?

[Eugene Coyle <eugenecoyle@xxxxxxx>]

I hope it is worth repeating that the best history of micro theory I've ever read is in chapter 1 of Pasinetti's Structural Change and Economic Growth: A Theoretical Essay on the Dynamics of the Wealth of Nations.  He puts paid to Samuelson's maximization of a function as the essence of economics.

Gene Coyle

On Aug 12, 2008, at 9:09 AM, Paul Zarembka wrote:

Haven't read it.  For an undergrad HOT course I'd consider the Foley book

and pieces of Warsh's Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations (to critique, not as received wisdom).

Thanks to Max and others about this book.  Subsequently I've learned that it is a pro-market reading.  I don't want that for my students, but rather something which encourages them to think.  "The Ordinary Business of Life" is good enough for that purpose as it is not dogmatic.  Still, I wish I could add more spice and make the subject of economic thought more readable.

Which Foley book do you mean, "Adams' Fallacy: A Guide to Economic Theology"?  I didn't even know of it.

By the way, have a spare copy of "Frontiers of Econometrics"?  :-)

No. Sorry, Paul


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