Table of Contents

ForewordPreface to the First EditionPreface to the Second EditionCh. 1Introduction1Pt. 1The Pillars of Neoclassical EconomicsCh. 2The Intellectual Gantry of Neoclassical Economic Policy7Ch. 3Alfred Marshall - Exemplar of Neoclassical Economic Thought19Pt. 2The Eclipse of Neoclassical EconomicsCh. 4Thorstein Veblen - The Abrogation of Consumer Sovereignty31Ch. 5Arthur Cecil Pigou - Externalities in Production43Ch. 6Edward Hastings Chamberlin - The Wastes of Competition53Ch. 7John Maynard Keynes - Unemployment in Equilibrium65Pt. 3The New EconomicsCh. 8Alvin H. Hansen - The American Keynes81Ch. 9Paul A. Samuelson - From Economic Wunderkind to Policymaker107Ch. 10Abba P. Lerner - The Artist as Economist137Ch. 11John Kenneth Galbraith - Economist as Social Critic161Pt. 4The New NeoclassicismCh. 12Frank H. Knight - Philosopher of the Counterrevolution in Economics193Ch. 13Henry C. Simons - Radical Proponent of Laissez-faire207Ch. 14Milton Friedman - Classical Liberal as Economic Scientist223Ch. 15Conclusion263Afterword: The Academic Scribblers after Twenty-Five Years267Index275

Reviews

"As a guide to the intellectual origins of many hotly debated current and proposed economic policies, The Academic Scribblers is an outstanding success."--J. Bernard Burnham, National Review "Even to try to survey so much is commendable and the authors have done more. They take the reader through the ideas of the twelve in a way that shows that they are competent theorists themselves."--William D. Grampp, The American Political Science Review "[The Academic Scribblers] is a compact, lucid survey of the ideas of an even dozen British and American economists... A splendid book. It should be read by every undergraduate student of economics."--William H. Miernyk, Social Science Quarterly