The academic scribblers: American economists in collision / [by] William Breit [and] Roger L. Ransom.

Includes index.

Chapter 1. Introduction --- Part I: The pillars of neoclassical economics -- Chapter 2. The intellectual gantry of neoclassical economic policy -- Chapter 3. Alfred Marshall - exemplar of neoclassical economic thought --- Part II: The eclipse of neoclassical economics -- Chapter 4. Thorstein Veblen - the abrogration of consumer -- Chapter 5. Arthur Cecil Pigou - externalities in production -- Chapter 6. Edward Hastings Chamberlin - the wastes of competition -- Chapter 7. John Maynard Keynes - unemployment in equilibrium --- Part III: The new economics -- Chapter 8 Alvin H. Hansen - the american Keynes -- Chapter 9. Paul A. Samuelson - economics wunderkind as policy makers -- Chapter 10. Abba P. Lerner - the artist as economist -- Chapter 11. John Kenneth Galbraith - economist as social critic --- Part IV: the new neoclassicism -- Chapter 12. Frank H. Knight - philosopher of the counter-revolution in economics -- Chapter 13. Henry C. Simons - radical proponent of laissez-faire -- Chapter 14. Milton Freidman - classical liberal as economic scientist -- Chapter 15. Conclusion

"The intention of this book is to describe the ideas which have influenced recent American economic policy. Twelve economists are sur­veyed, beginning with Alfred Marshall, whose Principles was published in 1890, and ending with Milton Friedman, whose ideas are at the center of economics today (and are explained here very well). In between are Veblen, Pigou, Chamberlin, Keynes, Hansen, Samuelson, Ler­ner, Galbraith, Knight, and Simons." - William D. Gramp. American Political Science Review Volume 67, Issue 3 September 1973, pp. 984-985.

"A unique attempt is made in this volume to explain the tools, theories, and controversies of the contemporary economics within the framework of the philosophies of the economic thinkers responsible for them. Each theorist's economic insights and the impact of his thought on current economic policy are isolated and examined. Emphasis is on the way in which technical developments of individual economists have influenced policy. the book is richly loaded with anecdotes about the lives and idiosyncrasies of these economists, leading one pre-publication re-viewer to suggest that the volume might be considered "an informal guidebook to the in group". The authors show that whichever economists' ideas gain acceptance is decided as much by the forced of their personalities as by the logic and elegance of their arguments. The writers chosen represent virtually ever prominent viewpoint in the American economics profession today." - Dust Jacket Review