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Lives of The Great Economists

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Irving Fisher: A Biography. By AllenRobert Loring. Cambridge, MA, and Oxford, U.K.: Blackwell, 1993. Pp. xv, 324. $39.95.
Joseph Alois Schumpeter: The Public Life of a Private Man. By StolperWolfgang F.. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. Pp. xx, 400. $49.50.
Ronald H. Coase. By MedemaStephen G.. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994. Pp. ix, 205. $59.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2009

Thomas K. McGraw
Thomas K. McGraw
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Harvard Business School
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Is it worthwhile to read biographies of economists? Does the person’s life affect the formulation of his or her theory? How much influence can a person have on the sweep of history? These, of course, are some of the oldest questions scholars grapple with, whether in the guise of the New Criticism in literature, the role of individual contributions to the progress of science, or the balance between volition and determinism in history itself.

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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 55 , Issue 3 , September 1995 , pp. 683 - 693
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1995

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