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The New Palgrave

Name: The New Palgrave
Author: John Eatwell, Murray Milgate, Peter Newman
ISBN: 9780935859102

by John Eatwell, Murray Milgate, Peter Newman

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Overview

Over 900 of the foremost economists of our time have contributed to this expansive work, writing on a wide array of topics from absentee to zero-sum game. In addition to over 1,200 subject entries the contributors write about the lives of over 600 of the leading minds in the field, including Galbraith, Hotelling, Leontief and Samuelson. The 4,000 cross references provide rich resources for subject area study as do the detailed bibliographies. Ideal for all kinds of libraries, accessible for students and general readers, and for academics, professionals and researchers, an unrivaled starting point for further research.

About the Author, John Eatwell, Murray Milgate, Peter Newman

David A. Gerber is Professor of History at the University at Buffalo (SUNY).

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Washington Post

. . .far surpasses any other reference work on economics. . .it's a pleasure to read.

Library Journal

For over 75 years, R.H. Inglis Palgrave's classic Dictionary of Political Economy stood largely unrevised. Under the skillful editorship of Eatwell (Cambridge), Murray Milgate (Harvard), and Peter Newman (Johns Hopkins), a thoroughly rewritten dictionary has been issued. This authoritative and comprehensive publication focuses on all aspects of modern economic thought. Only about 50 of the essays appearing in the original may be found among the 1916 signed entries, which include 655 biographies of economists past and present. The 927 scholarly contributors from around the world include 12 Nobel Prize winners in economics. Full, up-to-date bibliographies accompany the essays. Adequate cross-references, useful appendixes, and detailed indexing make this handsomely printed and sturdily bound set a worthy successor to Palgrave's magnum opus , which is still needed for historical material. Required by every library serving students and scholars in economics. Leonard Grundt, Nassau Community Coll. Lib., Garden City, N.Y.

John Kenneth Galbraith

This is a remarkably ambitious and extraordinarily useful enterprise....We will long be grateful for the work of the distinguished editors. -- John Kenneth Galbraith