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How the Dismal Science Got Its Name: Classical Economics and the Ur-Text of Racial Politics
How the Dismal Science Got Its Name Classical Economics and the UrText of Racial Politics
Author: David M. Levy
It is widely asserted that the Victorian sages attacked classical economics from a humanistic or egalitarian perspective, calling it "the dismal science," and that their attack is relevant to modern discussions of market society. David M. Levy here demonstrates that these assertions are simply false: political economy became "dismal" because Car...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780472089055
ISBN-10: 0472089056
Publication Date: 12/9/2002
Pages: 336
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Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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