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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Table of Contents:
  • 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.