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| Preface and Acknowledgments | |
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| Prologue: Populating the Pantheon | |
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| Subject Matter | |
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| Perspective | |
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| Populating the Pantheon | |
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| Periodization | |
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| Organization | |
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| The Classical Era (ca. 1680-1830) | |
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| The Leitmotiv of Classical Economics | |
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| Antecedents: Supply and Demand | |
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| Commonplace Economics | |
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| The Scholastics | |
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| Mercantilism | |
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| Richard Cantillon | |
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| Life | |
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| The Essai | |
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| A Land Theory of Value | |
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| The "Three Rents." | |
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| Classical Monetary Theory | |
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| Place in the History of Economics | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Francois Quesnay | |
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| Life | |
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| Works | |
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| The Tableau Economique as a Circular Flow | |
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| The Tableau Economique as an Input-Output Table | |
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| The Tableau Economique as a Zigzag | |
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| Capital | |
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| Policy Maxims | |
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| Place in the History of Economics | |
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| Money: The Emergence of the Classical Tradition | |
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| John Law | |
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| David Hume | |
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| Pehr Niclas Christiernin | |
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| Adam Smith | |
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| Life | |
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| Works | |
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| Price | |
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| The Social Accounts | |
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| Labor and Wages | |
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| Land and Rent | |
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| Capital and Profit | |
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| The Invisible Hand | |
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| Liberalism and Mercantilism | |
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| Place in the History of Economics | |
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| Production and Factor Supply | |
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| Jacques Turgot | |
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| James Anderson | |
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| Thomas Robert Malthus | |
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| John Rae | |
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| David Ricardo | |
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| Life and Works | |
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| Value | |
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| The Invariable Measure of Value | |
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| Rent | |
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| Wages | |
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| Profits | |
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| Comparative Advantage | |
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| Monetary Theory | |
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| Place in the History of Economics | |
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| Money: The Completion of the Classical Tradition | |
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| Henry Thornton | |
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| Jean-Baptiste Say | |
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| Nassau Senior | |
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| Utility and Demand | |
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| Ferdinando Galiani and William Forster Lloyd | |
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| Daniel Bernoulli and Jeremy Bentham | |
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| John Stuart Mill | |
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| Jules Dupuit | |
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| Karl Marx | |
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| Life | |
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| Works | |
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| The Dialectic Model of History | |
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| Capitalism | |
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| Value | |
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| Two-Sector Balanced Growth | |
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| Falling Profits and the Collapse of Capitalism | |
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| Place in the History of Economics | |
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| The Marginalist Era (ca. 1830-1930) | |
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| The Leitmotiv of Marginalism | |
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| Johann Heinrich von Thunen | |
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| Life | |
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| Works | |
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| Rent and Factor Intensities for One Good | |
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| Resource Allocation and Location for Many Goods | |
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| Marginal Productivity | |
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| The Natural Wage | |
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| Capital and Interest | |
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| Thunen's Method | |
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| Place in the History of Economics | |
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| Antoine Augustin Cournot | |
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| Life | |
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| Works | |
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| The Law of Demand | |
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| Monopoly | |
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| Taxation | |
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| Duopoly | |
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| Pure Competition | |
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| Place in the History of Economics | |
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| Hermann Heinrich Gossen | |
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| Life | |
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| Work | |
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| Optimal Allocation of Time | |
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| Production | |
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| Exchange | |
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| Rent | |
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| Capital and Interest | |
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| Nationalization of Land | |
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| Place in the History of Economics | |
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| William Stanley Jevons | |
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| Life | |
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| Works | |
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| Utility | |
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| Exchange | |
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| Capital and Interest | |
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| Mathematics | |
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| Place in the History of Economics | |
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| Leon Walras | |
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| Life | |
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| Works | |
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| From Partial Equilibrium to General Equilibrium | |
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| The Tatonnement Process | |
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| Production and the Circular Flow | |
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| Investment and Interest | |
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| Money | |
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| Welfare | |
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| Place in the History of Economics | |
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| The Viennese School | |
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| Carl Menger | |
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| Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk | |
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| Friedrich von Wieser | |
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| Alfred Marshall | |
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| Life | |
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| Works | |
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| From General Equilibrium to Partial Equilibrium | |
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| Reciprocal Demand Curves | |
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| The Marshallian Cross | |
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| Elasticity of Demand | |
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| Period Analysis of Supply | |
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| The Falling Supply Curve and Externalities | |
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| Place in the History of Economics | |
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| Knut Wicksell | |
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| Life | |
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| Marginal Productivity Theory of Distribution | |
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| Solving the Exhaustion Problem | |
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| The Capital Paradigm | |
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| The Cumulative Process | |
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| Place in the History of Economics | |
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| Vilfredo Pareto | |
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| Life | |
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| Works | |
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| Pareto's Law of Income Distribution | |
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| Ordinal Utility | |
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| Pareto Optimality | |
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| Comparative Statics of Demand | |
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| Place in the History of Economics | |
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| Irving Fisher | |
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| Life | |
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| Works | |
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| Interdependent Goods | |
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| Interest Parity and Expectations | |
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| The Rate of Interest | |
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| The Quantity Theory of Money | |
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| Place in the History of Economics | |
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| Exchange and Prices | |
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| Francis Ysidro Edgeworth | |
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| Rudolf Auspitz and Richard Lieben | |
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| Wilhelm Launhardt | |
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| Eugen Slutsky | |
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| Edward Chamberlin | |
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| Joan Robinson | |
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| The Era of Economic Models (since about 1930) | |
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| The Leitmotiv of the Model-Building Era | |
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| Welfare | |
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| Arthur Cecil Pigou | |
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| Frank Ramsey | |
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| Abba Lerner | |
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| Harold Hotelling | |
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| James Meade | |
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| John Maynard Keynes | |
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| Life | |
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| Principal Economic Works | |
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| Wage Rigidity | |
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| Effective Demand | |
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| The Multiplier | |
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| Liquidity Preference | |
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| The Futility of Wage Reductions | |
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| Stabilization Policy | |
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| The "Keynesian Revolution." | |
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| Place in the History of Economics | |
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| John Hicks | |
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| Life | |
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| Production | |
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| Composite Goods | |
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| Comparative Statics and Stability | |
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| Period Dynamics and the Term Structure | |
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| Place in the History of Economics | |
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| The Planners | |
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| Ragnar Frisch | |
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| Jan Tinbergen | |
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| Wassily Leontief | |
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| John von Neumann | |
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| Life | |
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| Works | |
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| The Theory of Games | |
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| The Existence of Growth Equilibrium | |
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| Cardinal Utility | |
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| Tjalling Koopmans | |
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| Life | |
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| Works | |
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| Econometrics | |
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| Linear Programming | |
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| Efficient Production | |
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| Place in the History of Economics | |
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| Paul Samuelson | |
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| Life | |
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| Works | |
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| Revealed Preference | |
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| Factor Price Equalization | |
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| The Transfer Problem | |
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| The Correspondence Principle | |
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| Nonsubstitution | |
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| Public Goods | |
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| The Turnpike | |
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| Overlapping Generations | |
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| Randomness of Speculative Prices | |
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| Place in the History of Economics | |
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| Economic Growth | |
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| Joseph Schumpeter | |
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| Roy Harrod | |
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| Robert Solow | |
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| The Golden Rule | |
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| Monetary Macroeconomics: Neoclassical Synthesis | |
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| Lloyd Metzler | |
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| Franco Modigliani | |
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| James Tobin | |
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| Kenneth Arrow | |
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| Life | |
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| Social Choice | |
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| The Welfare Theorems | |
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| Arrow-Debreu Equilibrium | |
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| Contingent Claims and Insurance | |
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| Health Economics | |
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| Place in the History of Economics | |
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| Monetary Macroeconomics: Policy Rules | |
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| Milton Friedman | |
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| John Muth | |
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| Robert Lucas | |
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| Epilogue: The Dynamics of Scientific Progress | |
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| The Driving Forces | |
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| Responses | |
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| Success and Failure | |
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| References | |
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| Author Index | |
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| Subject Index | |