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'Williams has chosen an engaging cast of characters; his collection
is full of well-lived lives and grisly endings ... Consume it as a
whole or dip in and out. Either way, he leaves you a lot wiser.' -
Philip Aldrick, Times Opinions vary about who really counts as a
classical economist: Marx thought it was everyone up to Ricardo.
Keynes thought it was everyone up to Keynes. But there's a general
agreement about who belongs to the heroic early phase of the
discipline. Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Malthus, Mill, Marx:
scarcely a day goes by without their names being publicly invoked
to celebrate or criticise the state of the world or the actions of
governments. Few of us, though, have read their works. Fewer still
realise that the economies that many of them were analysing were
quite unlike our modern one, or the extent to which they were
indebted to one another. So join the Economist's Callum Williams to
join the dots. See how the modern edifice of economics was built,
brick by brick, from their ideas and quarrels. And find out which
parts stand the test of time.
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