Mark Blaug

Durante más de treinta años, este libro ha sido reputado como una obra sin precedentes acerca de la historia del pensamiento económico. Así ha sido porque se trata de una historia con dos raras caracteristicas: la primera consiste en un analisis critico de las teorias eco-nomicas mas importantes, sin diluirse en digresiones historicas o coloraciones biograficas, y la segunda, provee al lector de una guia detallada sobre trabajos de Adam Smith, David Ri-cardo, J.S. Mill, Marx, Marshall, Wicksteed, Wicksell, Walras y Keynes. Mas aun, es un es-fuerzo por alentar a los estudiantes a familiarizarse rapidamente con los escritos de los eco-nomistas de mas relieve.

Aquest volum presenta l'obra dels autors del passat mitjançant un centenar de breus biografies. El llibre s'adreça tant als estudiants de Ciències Econ&og

This book is an examination of the nature of economic explanation. The opening chapters introduce current thinking in the philosophy of science and review the literature on methodology. Professor Blaug then turns to the troublesome question of the logical status of welfare economics, giving the reader an understanding of the outstanding issues in the methodology of economics. This is followed by a series of case studies of leading economic controversies, which shows how controversies in economics may be illuminated by paying attention to questions of methodology. A final chapter draws the strands together and gives the author's view of what is wrong with modern economics. This book is a revised and updated edition of a classic work on the methodology of economics, in which Professor Blaug develops his discussion of the latest developments in macroeconomics, general equilibrium theory and international trade theory. A new section on the rationality postulate is also added.