Ranking among the most distinguished economists and scholars of
his generation, Jacob Viner is best remembered for his work in
international economics and in the history of economic thought.
Mark Blaug, in his Great Economists Since Keynes (Cambridge, 1985)
remarked that Viner was "quite simply the greatest historian of
economic thought that ever lived." Never before, however, have
Viner's important contributions to the intellectual history of
economics been collected into one convenient volume. This book
performs this valuable service to scholarship by reprinting Viner's
classic essays on such topics as Adam Smith and laissez-faire, the
intellectual history of laissez-faire, and power versus plenty as
an objective of foreign policy in the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries. Also included are Viner's penetrating and previously
unpublished Wabash College lectures. "Jacob Viner was one of the
truly great economists of this century as both teacher and scholar.
This collection .. covers a wide range with special emphasis on the
history of thought. Today's economists will find the essays] just
as thought-provoking and as illuminating as did his contemporaries.
They have aged very well indeed."--Milton Friedman, Hoover
Institution "Jacob Viner was a great and original economic
theorist. What is rarer, Viner was a learned scholar. What is still
rarer, Viner was a wise scientist. This new anthology of his
writings on intellectual history is worth having in every
economist's library--to sample at intervals over the years in the
reasoned hope that Viner's wisdom will rub off on the reader and
for the pleasure of his writing."--Paul A. Samuelson, MIT "I am
frankly jealous of those who will be reading Viner's essays for the
first time, marvelling at his learning, amused by his dry wit,
instructed by his wisdom. But although I cannot share their joy of
discovery, I shall be able to savor the subtleties that emerge from
rereading these splendid essays."--George J. Stigler, University of
Chicago "This volume will be a treat for the reader who appreciates
scholarship, felicitous use of language, and the workings of a
great mind. The Wabash lectures are gems, and the introduction by
Douglas Irwin contributes significantly to our understanding of
Viner's accomplishments."--William J. Baumol, Princeton
University/New York University
Originally published in 1991.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these
important books while presenting them in durable paperback
editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly
increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the
thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since
its founding in 1905.
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