Essays on the Intellectual History of Economics / / Jacob Viner; ed. by Douglas A. Irwin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• VerfasserIn: Viner, Jacob,
• HerausgeberIn: Irwin, Douglas A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1991
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1191
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (418 p.)

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 Also included are Viner's penetrating and previously unpublished Wabash College lectures.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 UniversityOriginally 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 editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I. The Wabash Lectures -- 1. Five Lectures on Economics and Freedom -- PART II. Major Essays -- 2. Adam Smith and Laissez Faire -- 3. MARSHALL'S ECONOMICS, IN RELATION TO THE MAN AND TO HIS TIMES -- 4. POWER VERSUS PLENTY AS O B J E C T I V E S OF FOREIGN POLICY IN THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES -- 5. BENTHAM AND J. s. MILL: THE UTILITARIAN BACKGROUND -- 6. Introduction to Bernard Mandeville, A Letter to Dion (1732) -- 7. "Fashion" in Economic Thought -- 8. The Intellectual History of Laissez Faire -- 9. The Economist in History 226 -- 10. Adam Smith -- 11. Mercantilist Thought -- 12. Man's Economic Status -- 13. Satire and Economics in the August an Age of Satire -- PART III. Review Articles -- 14. Schumpeter's History of Economic Analysis -- 15. Hayek on Freedom and Coercion -- 16. "Possessive Individualism" as Original Sin -- 17. The Earlier Letters of John Stuart Mill -- PART IV. Commencement Addresses -- 18. A Modest Proposal for Some Stress on Scholarship in Graduate Training -- 19. Address at the University of Toronto Convocation -- Index