The hesitant hand : taming self-interest in the history of economic ideas /

Main Author: Medema, Steven G.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2009.
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245 1 4 |a The hesitant hand :  |b taming self-interest in the history of economic ideas /  |c Steven G. Medema. 
260 1 4 |a Princeton, N.J. :  |b Princeton University Press,  |c c2009. 
300 1 4 |a xiii, 230 p. ;  |c 24 cm. 
504 1 4 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-223) and index. 
505 1 4 |a Adam Smith and his ancestors -- Harnessing self-interest: Mill, Sidgwick, and the evolution of the theory of market failure -- Marginalizing the market: Marshall, Pigou, and the Pigovian tradition -- Marginalizing government I: from La Scienza delle Finanze to Wicksell -- Coase's challenge -- Marginalizing government II: the rise of public choice analysis -- Legal fiction: the Coase theorem and the evolution of law and economics. 
650 1 4 |a Free enterprise  |x History 
650 1 4 |a Economic policy  |x History 
650 1 4 |a Economics  |x History 
650 1 4 |a Economic history 
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