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1. Amartya Sen

   Critical Assessments of Contemporary Economists

   Edited by John C. Wood, Robert D. Wood

   Series: Critical Assessments of Contemporary Economists

   This new Major Work from Routledge is a five-volume collection of the key critical assessments of Amartya Sen (b. 1933), probably best known for his work on famine, human development and welfare economics. Sen is one of the few modern academics who has commanded much respect and recognition from...

   Published December 20th 2006 by Routledge
2. Paul A. Samuelson

   Critical Assessments of Contemporary Economists, 2nd Series

   Edited by Michael McLure, John Cunningham Wood

   Series: Critical Assessments of Contemporary Economists

   Very much 'the economists' economist', Samuelson published rigorous statements of fundamental concepts and theories in just about every branch of economics, including international trade, consumer theory and welfare economics, production theory, financial analysis, growth theory, macroeconomics,...

   Published September 22nd 2004 by Routledge
3. Friedrich A. von Hayek

   Critical Assessments of Contemporary Economists, 2nd Series

   Edited by John Cunningham Wood, Robert D. Wood

   Series: Critical Assessments of Contemporary Economists

   Hayek's reputation has gone through a remarkable cycle. An eminent exponent of the Austrian theory of business cycles in the 1930s, he was worsted in the controversy over Keynes' Treatise on Money (1930). Following this defeat, Hayek retreated into capital theory, an esoteric branch of economics in...

   Published February 25th 2004 by Routledge
4. Friedrich A. Hayek

   Critical Assessments

   Edited by John Cunningham Wood, Ronald N. Woods

   Series: Critical Assessments of Contemporary Economists

   F.A. Hayek studied at the University of Vienna, where he became both a Doctor of Law and a Doctor of Political Science. After several years in the Austrian civil service, he was made the first diector of the Austrian Institute for Business Cycle Research. In 1931 he was appointed Tooke Professor of...

   Published March 6th 1991 by Routledge
5. Milton Friedman

   Critical Assessments

   Edited by John Cunningham Wood, Ronald N. Woods

   Series: Critical Assessments of Contemporary Economists

   Presents a selection of the critical literature commenting on the life and work of Milton Friedman and so gives students of economics and economic thought immediate access to Friedman's work and shows how his work has been received and modified....

   Published July 11th 1990 by Routledge
6. Paul A. Samuelson

   Critical Assessments

   Edited by John Cunningham Wood, Ronald N. Woods

   Series: Critical Assessments of Contemporary Economists

   Paul A. Samuelson is perhaps best known to students of economics as the author of the best-selling introductory textbook. But he has also a long track-record of innovative scholarship at the cutting edge of the discipline and is one of the most prolific contemporary economists the profession has...

   Published October 11th 1989 by Routledge
7. Sir John Hicks

   Critical Assessments of Contemporary Economists

   Edited by John Cunningham Wood, Ronald N. Woods

   Series: Critical Assessments of Contemporary Economists

   Sir John Hicks is one of the highest-regarded contemporary economists, and it is fitting that the new series of Critical Assessments of Contemporary Economists should commence with his work. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1972, Sir John Hicks’ work is extremely wide-ranging, with the...

   Published January 4th 1989 by Routledge