• The Making of Modern Economics

  • The Lives and Ideas of the Great Thinkers
  • By: Mark Skousen
  • Narrated by: Patrick Cullen
  • Length: 19 hrs and 48 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (443 ratings)

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The Making of Modern Economics

By: Mark Skousen
Narrated by: Patrick Cullen
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Here is a bold new history of economics, the dramatic story of how the great economic thinkers built a rigorous social science without peer.

Unlike other histories of economics, Mark Skousen's book provides a running plot with a singular heroic figure, Adam Smith, at the center of the discipline. Skousen unites the great thinkers by ranking them for or against Adam Smith and his "system of natural liberty". He shows how Karl Marx, Thorstein Veblen, John Maynard Keynes, and even laissez-faire disciples Robert Malthus and David Ricardo detracted from Adam Smith's classical model of democratic capitalism during periods of economic failure and upheaval, while Alfred Marshall, Irving Fisher, Ludwig von Mises, and Milton Friedman, among others, remodeled and improved upon Smithian economics as the world economy recovered and prospered.

Highlights include exciting new revelations about the lives of the great economists, provocative sidelights, humorous anecdotes, and even musical selections reflecting the spirit of each major economist.

©2001 Mark Skousen (P)2002 Blackstone Audiobooks

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Boaring

This put me to sleep to the point that I had to shut it off and turn on some loud music that I "never" listen to. This is "not" a fun book.

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Conclusory, Boring, Repititious

Way too much time on biography and academic politics.

Discussion of the concepts, theories and studies of Modern Economics is almost completely missing.

People he agrees with seem to have led better lives than people he disagrees with.

Worst part is that the book is formatted poorly for reading aloud. Long section headings precede topic sentences that repeat the content of the section heading and deprive the section of any surprises.

I recommend you read something else.

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