A lively, inviting account of the history of economics, told through events from ancient to modern times and the ideas of great thinkers in the field What cause

Here is a bold history of economics - the dramatic story of how the great economic thinkers built today's rigorous social science. Noted financial writer and ec

Paul Bairoch deflates twenty commonly held myths about economic history. Among these myths are that free trade and population growth have historically led to pe

• The book is written in a lively style and includes text boxes highlighting little-known and often amusing facts about these famous economists, all of which

Without economic history, economics runs the risk of being too abstract or parochial, of failing to notice precedents, trends and cycles, of overlooking the lon