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By John C. Wood, Robert D. Wood
December 21, 2006
This new Major Work from Routledge is a five-volume collection of the key critical assessments of Amartya Sen (b. 1933), probably best known for his work on famine, human development and welfare economics. Sen is one of the few modern academics who has commanded much respect and recognition from ...
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By John Cunningham Wood, Robert D. Wood
February 26, 2004
Hayek's reputation has gone through a remarkable cycle. An eminent exponent of the Austrian theory of business cycles in the 1930s, he was worsted in the controversy over Keynes' Treatise on Money (1930). Following this defeat, Hayek retreated into capital theory, an esoteric branch of economics in...
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By John Cunningham Wood, Ronald N. Woods
March 07, 1991
F.A. Hayek studied at the University of Vienna, where he became both a Doctor of Law and a Doctor of Political Science. After several years in the Austrian civil service, he was made the first diector of the Austrian Institute for Business Cycle Research. In 1931 he was appointed Tooke Professor of...
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By John Cunningham Wood, Ronald N. Woods
July 12, 1990
First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
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By John Cunningham Wood, Ronald N. Woods
January 05, 1989
Sir John Hicks is one of the highest-regarded contemporary economists, and it is fitting that the new series of Critical Assessments of Contemporary Economists should commence with his work. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1972, Sir John Hicks’ work is extremely wide-ranging, with the ...
