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An Introduction To Modern Economics by [by] Joan Robinson, John Eatwell is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is An Introduction To Modern Economics about?

Imagine a modern economics textbook comprising of three parts, with the last two being Analysis and Modern Problems. What do you think would the first part would be called? I doubt your answer was Economic Doctrines. But that’s exactly how Joan Robinson began her textbook An Introduction to Modern Economics back in 1973. For Robinson, rebuilding modern economics teaching meant starting with an understanding of evolving economic doctrines. As such, she begins her revolutionary textbook with a summary of the defining battles within economic philosophy, tracing the key players and their moral and logical arguments since the writings of Fançois Quesnay in the 18th century. Robinson’s book, written with John Eatwell, was supposed to offer a fresh new way to teach economics that would replace the ‘Samuelson’ approach to economic teaching. It failed to do so. In fact it failed so catastrophically that it never gained one tenth the circulation of Samuelson’s principles text in its short publishing history, and has been all but forgotten in modern discussions about rewriting the economics curriculum. So unpopular is this book that it is deemed unworthy of shelf space at my university librar

Who reads An Introduction To Modern Economics?

Author

[by] Joan Robinson, John Eatwell

Publisher

McGraw-Hill School Education Group

Published

1973

Language

EN

ISBN

9780070840461

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Economics, Business