Synopses & Reviews
Anti-economics is described as the opposition to the mainstream of economic thought that has existed from the 18th century to the present day. This book tells the story of anti-economics in relation to Smith, Ricardo, Mill, Walras, Keynes, and Hicks as well as current economic thinkers. William Coleman examines how anti-economics developed from the Enlightenment to the present day and analyzes its various guises; Right anti-economics, Left anti-economics, Nationalist and Historicist anti-economics and Irrationalist, Moralist, Aesthetic, and Environmental anti-economics.
Review
Reviews of hardcover edition
"Unique, intensive and extensive in its subject matter...this volume has every quality to become a classic."--C.J. Talele, Choice
"William Coleman's wonderful book [is]...a terrifically valuable piece of scholarship...vast reading and it shows."--David M. Levy, George Mason University
"...a crushingly learned volume on the history of economic thought. This should definitely earn him professional praise."--Eric Jones, University of Melbourne, Policy
"It should be on the shelves of anyone interested in intellectual history, alongside the works of Isaiah Berlin."--P.P. McGuiness, Editor, Quadrant
"I am reading it with great pleasure"--Robert Lucas, Nobel Laureate in Economics 1995
"This is a brilliant book, conceived on a vast and daring scale, and argued with magisterial conviction."--Dennis O'Keeffe, Salisbury Review
Review
"It should be on the shelves of anyone interested in intellectual history, alongside the works of Isaiah Berlin."-P.P. McGuinness, Quadrant
"Unique, intensive and extensive in its subject matter...this volume has every quality to become a classic."--C. J. Talele, Choice
'William Coleman's wonderful book [is]... a terrifically valuable piece of scholarship...vast reading and it shows.' - David M. Levy, George Mason University
"... a crushingly learned volume on the history of economic thought. This should definitely earn him professional praise."- Professor Eric Jones, University of Melbourne, Policy
Synopsis
Anti-economics is described as the opposition to the main stream of economic thought that has existed from the eighteenth-century to the present day. This book tells the story of anti-economics in relations to Smith, Ricardo, Mill, Walras, Keynes and Hicks as well as current economic thinkers. William Coleman examines how anti-economics developed from the Enlightenment to the present day and analyzes its various guises.
Synopsis
Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-307) and index.
About the Author
William Oliver Coleman is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Economics and Politics at the University of Cambridge.
Table of Contents
PART I * The Damnation of Economics *
PART II * The 'Wretched Procurers of Sedition' * The 'Apostles of the Rich' * The Dream of Nationhood * The Totalitarian State and the 'Economist-Scoundrels' *
PART III * The General Contagion of its Mechanic Philosophy * The Moral Economy * The Religion of Love and the Science of Wealth * Crusaders and Consumers * Rival Gospels of Wealth *
PART IV * The 'Unconquerable Private Interests' * 'The Infallible Dicta of the Holy Mother Church of Political Popery' * 'Economists, Glory to You and the Jews!' A Postscript on Anti-Semitism * The Notes so Puzzling Failure of Anti-Economics