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Prophet Of Innovation : Joseph Schumpeter And Creative Destruction

  • Prophet Of Innovation : Joseph Schumpeter And Creative Destruction

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    Thomas K. McCraw

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    Book, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007

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    During a tumultuous life spanning two world wars, the Great Depression, and the early Cold War, Schumpeter reinvented himself many times. Drawing on all of Schumpeter’s writings, including many intimate diaries and letters never before used, this biography paints the full portrait of a magnetic figure who aspired to become the world’s greatest economist, lover, and horseman–and admitted to failure only with the horses. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (LOWER LEVEL)  HB119.S35 M43 2007  AVAILABLE

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Milton Friedman : A Biography

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Knowledge And The Wealth Of Nations : A Story Of Economic Discovery

  • Knowledge And The Wealth Of Nations : A Story Of Economic Discovery

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    David Warsh

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    Book, 1st ed, W.W. Norton, 2006

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    This book tells the story of what has come to be called the new growth theory: the paradox identified by Adam Smith more than two hundred years earlier, its disappearance and occasional resurfacing in the nineteenth century, the development of new technical tools in the twentieth century, and finally the student who could see further than his teachers. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (LOWER LEVEL)  HB74.8 .W37 2006  AVAILABLE

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Herbert A. Simon : The Bounds Of Reason In Modern America

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John Kenneth Galbraith : His Life, His Politics, His Economics

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Confessions Of An Economic Hit Man

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The Fly Swatter : How My Grandfather Made His Way In The World

  • The Fly Swatter : How My Grandfather Made His Way In The World

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    Nicholas Dawidoff

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    Book, Pantheon Books, 2002

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    Gerschenkron was an uncompromising man who feuded with everyone from Vladimir Nabokov to John Kenneth Galbraith, who played chess with Marcel Duchamp, who enjoyed an intimate interlude with Marlene Dietrich, and who was a confidant of both Isaiah Berlin of Oxford and Ted Williams of the Red Sox. Layers of mystery and contradiction are at the core of this brilliantly recreated life, this prism through which we look back across some of the most important and unsettling moments of the twentieth century. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (LOWER LEVEL)  HB119.G47 D39 2002  AVAILABLE

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The Essential Galbraith

  • The Essential Galbraith

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    John Kenneth Galbraith ; selected and edited by Andrea D. Williams

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    Book, Houghton Mifflin, 2001

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    THE ESSENTIAL GALBRAITH includes key selections from the most important works of John Kenneth Galbraith, one of the most distinguished writers of our time - from THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY, the groundbreaking book in which he conined the tern “conventional wisdom,” to THE GREAT CRASH, an unsurpassed account of the events that triggered America’s worst economic crisis. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (LOWER LEVEL)  HB119.G33 A25 2001  AVAILABLE

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Two Lucky People : Memoirs

  • Two Lucky People : Memoirs

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    Milton & Rose D. Friedman

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    Book, The University of Chicago Press, 1998

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    An indispensable guide through the evolution of economic thought.”?Stephen Moore, National Review “A thought-provoking book and one rich in history, the personal history of the Friedmans . and the cultural and political history of our country.”?Steve Huntley, Chicago Sun-Times Books “[Two Lucky People] is almost like a letter from a couple of old friends?a couple of old friends who had a long, compelling intellectual journey, came to know some of the great world leaders of this century, and had 60 years of happy, supportive marriage.”?N. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (LOWER LEVEL)  HB119.A3 F75 1998  AVAILABLE

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Lost Prophets : An Insider’s View Of The Modern Economists

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Economic Principals : Masters And Mavericks Of Modern Economics

  • Economic Principals : Masters And Mavericks Of Modern Economics

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    David Warsh

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    Book, Free Press, 1993

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    For nearly ten years, readers of the Sunday Boston Globe and newspapers around America have delighted in David Warsh’s column, “Economic Principals.” Finally, in exploring the implications of modern economics, Warsh introduces us to scholars operating on the boundaries of the field, from Jane Jacobs to Noam Chomsky, and to the critics, like Donald McCloskey and Robert Reich, who have brought a bit of moral philosophy back into the economist’s brave new world. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (LOWER LEVEL)  HB76 .W37 1993  AVAILABLE

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Joseph Schumpeter : Scholar, Teacher, And Politician

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Models Of My Life

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The Making Of An Economist

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Rexford G. Tugwell : A Biography

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