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The Classical School Callum Williams

The Classical School By Callum Williams

The Classical School by Callum Williams


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A breezy, bracingly irreverent introduction to the founders of economics - how they lived, what they thought, what they got wrong and which of their ideas we still need.

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The Classical School: The Turbulent Birth of Economics in Twenty Extraordinary Lives by Callum Williams

Opinions vary about who really counts as a classical economist: Marx thought it was everyone up to Ricardo. Keynes thought it was everyone up to Keynes. But there's a general agreement about who belongs to the heroic early phase of the discipline. Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Malthus, Mill, Marx: scarcely a day goes by without their names being publicly invoked to celebrate or criticise the state of the world or the actions of governments. Few of us, though, have read their works. Fewer still realise that the economies that many of them were analysing were quite unlike our modern one, or the extent to which they were indebted to one another. So join the Economist's Callum Williams to join the dots. See how the modern edifice of economics was built, brick by brick, from their ideas and quarrels. And find out which parts stand the test of time.

The Classical School Reviews

Full of well-lived lives and grisly endings ... Williams relishes these little details and keeps the history lesson tearing along at pace ... Consume it as a whole or dip in and out. Either way, he leaves you a lot wiser. -- Philip Aldrick * Times *
Pithy and amusing ... with a light and irreverent touch -- Christopher Silvester * Spears *
Williams is an entertaining writer, enlightening his readers without boring them and using biographical detail not just to enliven the subject but to show how life experiences can determine attitudes. He has a knack for grabbing your attention * Money Week *
Riveting ... Very well written -- Rosemary Connell * Society of Professional Economists *
a crash course in the lives and ideas of thinkers-from Marx to Malthus-that everyone has heard of and a lively briefing on people, like Sismondi and Naoroji, that deserve to be better known. Succinct, critical, and entertaining -- Richard Davies author of * Extreme Economies *
short, punchy, and very well-written ... a terrific read. -- Kevin O'Rourke author of * A Short History of Brexit *
These lively essays ... are consistently insightful and manage to make complex ideas clear. -- David Miles author of * Macroeconomics *
This sometimes eclectic collection of economists gives a sense of the turbulent start of the economics field. Written with a journalist's attention to colour and quotations, The Classical School is an entertaining read. -- Linda Yueh * Economist *
Williams could hardly be more qualified as a guide to these figures of the Classical School * The Oldie *

About Callum Williams

Callum Williams is senior economics writer for the Economist. Scrutinising the rationale behind economic and political developments from Brexit to Jeremy Corbyn's economic policy, he has seen the ghosts of the founders of economics being invoked in all sorts of doubtful ways. Follow @econcallum on Twitter

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GOR010497544
9781788161817
1788161815
The Classical School: The Turbulent Birth of Economics in Twenty Extraordinary Lives by Callum Williams
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Profile Books Ltd
20200423
288
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